In her comment appended to our March post titled URDs Hurt Community Colleges, Susie Snedaker asked,

“A friend familiar with urban renewal legislation in another state told me that legislation in her state permitted taxing districts to negotiate percentages taken by URAs. Prior to the city’s adoption of urban renewal legislation, I contacted Steve Schenck at NIC to discuss the impact that the legislation would have on NIC and the possibility that NIC could negotiate the percentage taken by the URA. If I remember correctly, he told me something to the effect that the sum wouldn’t amount to much.  Are percentages taken from taxing districts negotiable?”

Does anyone have an authoritative answer, particularly one traceable directly to the wording in Idaho’s urban renewal statutes or precedent case law?