More Corporate "Freebees" from the Ogden City Council? - Updated

Fattening the purse of the latest corporate welfare recipient developer, to the tune of $1,000,000

Interesting agenda items popping up on tonight's Ogden City Council and Ogden City Redevelopment Agency Board calenders:

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3. Reports from Administration:
a. Mixed Use Master Development Agreement – Ogden 20th Street Investors. Proposed Resolution 2013-16 approving the Mixed Use Zone Master Development Agreement for the Ogden Bend Master Planned Community for the Development of land generally located between 20th Street and the Ogden River and between Grant Avenue and Lincoln Avenue together with land between the Ogden River and 18th Street and between Kiesel Avenue and Grant Avenue.

Here's the nitty-gritty:

Developer Responsibilities:

• Complete the development in accordance with all laws,including the Riverbend Master Plan
• Phase the project and submit documents for approval in accordance with the MUMDA
• Meet all Open Space and Trails Requirements outlined in the Master Plan
• Construct all on-site public infrastructure and convey to the City
• Meet and confer regarding Development Application Denials
• Meet and confer regarding Development progress

Ogden City Responsibilities

• Bend over backwards to "facilitate" this project
• Cough up an additional $1 million in tax increment to fat-cat develper

The bottom line?

Ogden City, along with an administration-compliant Ogden City Council will apparently be fattening the purse of the latest corporate welfare recipient developer, to the tune of $1,000,000.

Projected "net value" to we Ogden City Taxpayers  after this project is completed? Well who knows?

Sodden question: If Ogden City is such a great place to invest, why do the one-trick-ponies of the Ogden City  Economic Development Department (holdovers from the Godfrey administration) find it "necessary" to continue to "bribe" these "developers" (and current property owners) into "investing" in Ogden?

Just "axin.'"

Update 9/11/13 6:30 a.m.: Looks like the Council and RDA jumped in with both feet:

Mixed Use Master Development Agreement – Ogden 20th Street Investors. Proposed Resolution 2013-16 approving the Mixed Use Zone Master Development Agreement for the Ogden Bend Master Planned Community for the Development of land generally located between 20^th Street and the Ogden River and between Grant Avenue and Lincoln Avenue together with land between the Ogden River and 18^th Street and between Kiesel Avenue and Grant Avenue. Resolution adopted, vote: 7-0

A full twenty months into the Caldwell administration, the taxpayers of Ogden are still paying through the nose to "clean up" Boss Godfrey's "messes;" and BRIBERY even now remains as Ogden City's #1 economic development tool.

Update 9/16/13 6:30 a.m.:  Via the Ogden City website, here's the video of the 9/10/13 RDA meeting: