Talk:Business improvement district

adverse consequences
Are there adverse consequences for businesses choosing NOT to participate in the final BID decision? What if a business owner chooses not to participate in this operation?


 * Short answer: Yes. A BID decision is binding on all those businesses in a BID area liable for the BID levy. In the UK the BID rules require that consultation and a ballot of all businesses must take place. "In the UK, for a BID to go ahead the ballot must be won on two counts: straight majority and majority of rateable value. This ensures that the interests of large and small businesses are protected." British BIDs In the UK the BID levy is payable with the business rate. So it the rateable value threshold is set at £10,000 then all businesses with a rateable value of £10,000 and over are liable to pay the BID levy, whether they voted for it or not. There is no requirement to consult with businesses that at ere not liable for the BID, and there is no requirement to consult with residents. --Thegiantrodent (talk) 06:05, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Image broken
The image for this article is broken. I am happy enough to extract the relevant image from the .pdf document that is linked to but there is no way, other than to ask the public sector agency(!) which produced it, to know if the copyright belongs to the US government or to whoever they contracted out to do the work. The document itself does not appear to contain any licensing information.

Alternatively I can make a reproduction of the image myself and upload it under.

As a third alternative we can remove it entirely. I'm not sure how useful it is anyway.

What would you like me to do?

Rich Roast (talk) 18:45, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Criticism Section
Definitely required for this article as there are many negative consequences of what BIAs do. They're anti-poor and anti-homeless for one. BIDs have also caused a demise of street food (such as chip wagons and hot dog vendors) in some areas.TurtleMelody (talk) 23:06, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

The article reads like a brochure by a BID promoter with the intention of encouraging more to participate in BIDS. Less puffing and more facts, please.truthordare (talk) 22:03, 23 April 2013 (UTC)80.177.213.9 (talk) 08:24, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

The public/private structure makes it very hard to see where imperatives originate, who to blame. Readers need to be warned that the very title is loaded and "improvement" may be nothing of the kind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truthordare (talk • contribs) 13:16, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Weasel Words
The name Business Improvement District and all the listed synonyms are loaded. The article is written from the point of view that a BID is a "good thing". I don't know enough about editing Wikipedia to edit the article to make it more neutral. truthordare (talk) 22:36, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

The Scottish material reads like a handout from the Scottish Government. The thinking behind why a financial award is offered is not relevant and is political campaigning. The fact it is offered is relevant.truthordare (talk) 09:09, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

It is hard to see how this paragraph :...

"Throughout the world Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are changing public management at local government level of neighborhood and town centre.  Key to this metamorphosis is the concept and application of public-private partnerships that merge public and private management technologies, public entrepreneurship, and social capital. This merger forges a distinctive form of public management—public-private partnership management—an expertise within public administration—that brings together the knowledge and skills of business, government, planning, and community development in a collaborative manner and achieves a form of citizen-driven governance. When we look world-wide, the BID model is becoming a mainstream policy and management tool for local governments in collaboration with their business districts to apply entrepreneurship, social capital, and the management of a public-private partnership at the heart of community revitalization and development."

...can be edited to comply with Wikipedia. We know this far down the page that a BID is a private-public form of local administration introduced in Canada in 1970 and now disseminated worldwide. Whether it achieves a form of citizen-driven governance or hopelessly confuses the issue of where authority is vested and who is the beneficiary is a matter of opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truthordare (talk • contribs) 14:35, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

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