How to Use special district in a Sentence

special district

noun

• The tax dollars kicked up in the special district will go to pay back the bonds.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• Some of the funds that used to go to agencies now flow to cities, counties, special districts and schools.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• All of the football-only leagues are known as special districts.
  — Nick Daschel, OregonLive.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• All of the board seats for the special district will be held by Universal employees.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• That’s when a public body goes out to borrow money for a project, then creates a special district around it.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• If the bill passes, people living within the boundaries of each special district will get to vote and elect the board members.
  — Arun Sivasankaran, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The Florida House votes to put the governor in charge of Disney’s special district.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2023
• The agency oversees a special district of city and county tax revenues with funds that expire in 2027.
  — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 12 May 2021
• Cities, school districts and special districts across the state have faced or are facing the identical challenge.
  — Steve Dreyer, Pomerado News, 31 Aug. 2017
• For decades, Sears has captured tax revenue from a special district drawn around the campus designed to keep the company in town.
  — At A Great Price, ProPublica, 18 May 2020
• Kousser, the Caltech professor, noted that school boards and other special districts have made or are in the process of making the switch.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2018
• State lawmakers drew lines around the stadium and a large swath of the surrounding area to create a special district.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• The special district then countersued Disney in state court days later, and a state judge allowed the case to move forward in July.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• But the most profitable way to pay for infrastructure is to use the residents’ money through a special district.
  — John Henderson, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• The Walt Disney Company so far has not made a public comment on the special district removal.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2022
• The special district in Pawtucket stretches not just the stadium but a swath of downtown; the old McCoy Stadium area; and the area around the new train station.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• But that hasn't stopped other cities from creating these special districts.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2018
• The Port of San Diego is a special district that is a landowner, regulator and law enforcement agency.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• In 1991, Inver Grove Heights changed its zoning ordinance to create a special district to give the city more control over how solid waste is used.
  — Erin Adler, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• Someone may spend their money at a restaurant within a special district.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• The others were creating a special district, a prepared food and beverage tax, transient lodging tax and cell phone tax.
  — oregonlive, 3 July 2020
• Judge Jay York, who ordinarily hears cases in the circuit court, has been appointed to preside over the case as a special district court judge.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al.com, 21 June 2019
• DeSantis announces a plan to take over Disney's special district by appointing a new board to control Reedy Creek.
  — George Petras, USA Today, 16 May 2023
• Moore also said his group's members had warmed up to the idea of giving fiscal courts the ability to approve special district tax rates, which could be used for libraries or health departments.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2019
• Hite said Mansion, which was put in a special district program, the turnaround network, to give it more support and scrutiny, had more resources per student than other schools in the district.
  — Philly.com, 4 June 2018
• The dissolution of the special district would mean that Orange and Osceola counties take on the assets and liabilities of Reedy Creek.
  — Eric Levenson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• The board and Disney have been in a power struggle over who will have authority over future growth in the special district that provides government services to Disney World.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
• For one thing, the existence of the special district allows Disney to operate without much of the red tape that usually comes with dealing with local governments.
  — Christopher Palmeri, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022
• State law dictates that when a special district is dissolved, the responsibility for paying its debt falls to the area local government.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 1 May 2022
• Glastonbury officials could decide as early as next week whether to create a special district in the town center to preserve historic buildings.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 2 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 23 Jul 2024