Politics & Government
Business Owners Irate With New Plans for PBID Village Improvements
Bill Jaynes: "The PBID simply is not the right mechanism for the Village."
Written by Dave Schwab, La Mesa Courier
Sparring continued over the controversial Property Based Improvement District (PBID) to fund streetscape improvements for La Mesa Downtown Village as opponents of the proposed funding mechanism continued to lobby against it.
Outspoken PBID opponent Bill Jaynes, owner of All Things Bright and British, addressed the council telling them he'd been “shown the door” at a public meeting in a church of the recently reformed La Mesa PBID Formation Committee for wearing a “Save the Village No PBID” sticker.
When a pro-PBID Formation Committee member told him he'd have to remove his sticker, Jaynes told the council, “It stays – or I go.”
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