California mayors go nuclear over plan to charge taxpayers even more for Gavin Newsom’s $231B high speed rail

Source: New York Post

California mayors in the Central Valley aren’t happy with a plan to dip into local taxes and zoning for the state’s long-delayed high speed rail projects — saying they’ll sue the state if it goes through with it. Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer and several other Central Valley leaders sent a scathing letter to High Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri calling a plan to “capture” local property and sales tax growth within a half-mile of future High Speed Rail stations “unconstitutional. ” The strongly worded letter dated April 23 called the plan a “legally dubious scheme” to snatch counties’ tax dollars and “sets a dangerous statewide precedent.