The city needs to reassess their property taxation timing. When I bought my house, I paid something like $200 for property tax for my first year. The way they tax new houses is totally messed up. They should charge for a full year's taxes right away - right now they pro-rate the tax year from the date your possessed your house, and then use that value for next year's taxes (you don't pay property tax your first tax year, go figure).
This leaves them in a huge cash flow crunch - they're building infrastructure for houses that won't give them any appreciable taxes for usually 1-2 years.
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