County Commissioner Emily Bonilla, who represents some of the eastern parts of the county, threw out a series of conditions for her support of the tax increase, including no new toll roads and no corporate welfare.

“All mass transit should be free to use. Sunrail doesn’t do a great job of checking people for their tickets, and Lynx is not easily accessible due to the limited ways they accept payments…. If the taxpayers are paying for it anyway, they should ride for free,” Bonilla told her fellow commissioners. “No new revenues from this tax will go towards impacts creating the need for more capacity by any new developments. Those developments should be required to pay for their impacts, not the taxpayers.”