In reply to Sean Hayford Oleary.

Minneapolis receiver $14.15m in MSAS allocation funding in 2014, good for $35 per capita. SLP received $1.57m, or $33 per capita. I'd like to do a 10-year analysis (with more cities) since one-off snapshots may hide things, but at least on the surface it would seem Minneapolis isn't really in more need of MSAS money than SLP.

Per your point above, it's true that some properties (or portions of) were taken off the tax rolls for highway/freeway construction in SLP. My gut says not as much (share of all land used for highway ROW) as Minneapolis or St Paul, and certainly not any when talking about 2nd ring & beyond cities that really cannot intensify (but for a few spots) due to a car-only mobility approach. Although I will concede that highways take up more land as a percent of total (.0073 acres per capita) than Mpls (.0036).