I could see our Commissioners using this reasoning. -gretchen

Erica Byfield reported for WSBTV yesterday,

DeKalb commissioners declare most of county a slum,

What’s this urban redevelopment zone about?
Tax breaks for businesses that produce new jobs,
leaving taxes to be paid mostly by… those slum-dwellers!
How about

affordable fast Internet everywhere instead?

Timothy Darnell wrote for Tucker Patch yesterday,

Is Your DeKalb Neighborhood a Slum?
The board of commissioners created an urban redevelopment commission, declaring much of DeKalb a slum. Patch wants to know what you think about the county’s latest travails.

How about your Lowndes County neighborhood?
Is it a slum because your road isn’t paved or it isn’t solid subdivisions
or it doesn’t have a golf course or it isn’t an industrial park?

And DeKalb Officers Speak (as in police officers)
asked back in 24 November 2010,

What Do You Expect, It’s In A Slum:
Not enough money? Didn’t the commissioners just allocate 43 million dollars to refurbish Recorders Court?
I think there are better uses of county money than some of the alarmist
security measures in the TV report the police officers posted,
but I can’t help being reminded that
our County Commission about that time

spent about $29 million on the county palace.
Which has no

solar panels on it and while they did nothing solar for jobs or Internet access for business, education, and health care.

-jsq