Richards v. City of Muscatine

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under prior law the statute “can be applied to freeze the tax valuation only in areas being physically redeveloped by an urban renewal project”
• upholding city pledge to pay tax increment bonds from city taxes
• upholding city pledge to pay tax increment bonds from city taxes
• Tax increment bonds are a debt subject to the constitutional debt limitation even though the bonds are paid from a special fund because the fund is made up of the city's general revenue
• urban renewal bonds would constitute a constitutional debt if they were payable from the general revenues of the city without limitation; the result is the same when a statue carves out a portion of a city's general revenues
• discussing tax increment financing under Iowa Code § 403.19

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).