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Article: The Allegheny Regional Asset District: communities thinking and acting like a region. (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania)
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- Government Finance Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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In 1994, a governmental structure was launched in Allegheny County designed to fund the regional assets of southwestern Pennsylvania and to institute a long-overdue tax restructuring for the local governments within Allegheny County, including the City of Pittsburgh.
Landmark legislation enacted in 1993 permits Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, to levy a 1 percent local option sales tax and, at the same time, to create a new form of governance known as the Allegheny Regional Asset District. The enabling act, popularly known as the Regional Asset District bill, was the result of a two-year, intensive lobbying effort by the government officials from the City of Pittsburgh ...