A few things on the City's pie charts:
- Counting a green line LRT stop as an "indirect cost" of the new arena is disingenuous. There is going to be a stop at the Stampede Grounds whether or not an arena happens.
-Separating $25 million as "Flames not defined" is likewise rather odd.
- The one area where I agree with the Flames is that "users pay" is more accurately defined as Flames pay. Because prices are going to rise to what the market will bear regardless. The difference is that ticket tax revenue would come out of what would otherwise be HRR for the Flames.
-"Flames ownership pays" should include what the city expects the cost of the lease/rent under their proposal to be.
The City still looks far, far better in this than King and the Flames do, but disingenuous arguments and conveniently hidden costs are starting to seriously creep into their half of the pie chart war.
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