Excessive Taxation
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Bridgeville families are now paying 50% more of their modest $55,000-a-year-incomes in taxes to Bridgeville compared to the residents in the 3 adjacent neighboring communities.
IT IS URGENT that Bridgeville officials pass legislation nullifying the present Borough statute making it unnecessary for anyone constructing a building in the Central business district to provide any parking for their tenants or customers, IF THEY ARE CLOSER THAT 600 FEET TO ANOTHER PUBLIC PARKING LOT.
If the proposed 4-story building needing 40 parking spaces is built on the parcel of land across from the U.S. Post Office at the Washington Avenue/James Street intersection recently purchased by Doctor Roy, and/or if a larger building needing 50 parking spaces is built on the parcel of land next to the Aarco Reality Company building that was recently purchased by the building's owners for $170,000, the redevelopment of Bridgeville's central business district will be impossible, condemning the entire community into an even steeper economic decline.
At the present time, BOTH Washington Avenue public parking lots lease half of their spaces, generally making those spaces unavailable to the usual consumer-motorists.
If buildings are constructed on either or both of the parcels of land mentioned above, their tenants will lease an estimated 90 of the remaining spaces in both lots rendering them useless to the present business customers regularly using them.
This would also eliminate the possibility of redeveloping Bridgeville's central business district as well as the chance of ever transforming the community into a better community with the same citizen benefits being provided in the 3 adjacent neighboring municipalities, let alone greatly reducing the excessive tax burden on Bridgeville families! It is the responsibility of our Borough officials to improve the quality of life for residents and provide them with a better community.