I also think coming from the economic development side of things, we need to be digging in and finding those opportunities to develop local economies and to support what's happening. Because We can't be in a place where we're just turning to property taxes as the saving grace for when we need to provide services. There's a community that I was working with that years ago had more of an industrial base and 20% of their services of their budget was covered by residential property tax. (18:35–18:44)
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