Ah the irony is delicious...the local political elites must go hat in hand and beg businessmen and developers for handouts.  The very same business and development community the the politicians have disparaged and and victimized with arbitrary zoning regulations and exorbitant fees.  

Hopefully the developers owning property along The Rail route will extract their pound of flesh by demanding tax abatements and zoning variances.  The longer they wait the more desperate the politicians will become.  

The clock is running down and for once politicians are faced with a hard deadline and being forced to make decisions. Marvelous timing with an election looming, the positioning and spin will be very entertaining.