
Tyler Cobb
Public finance partner at Taft Law in Phoenix, Arizona, and principal architect of Arizona's HB 2999 (State Affordability Infrastructure District) legislation.
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Sep 17, 2026
E110- Interview with Tyler Cobb on Arizona's State Affordability Infrastructure District Legislation: Part 2
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Tyler CobbGUEST
I mean, it's not a city veto right of the application and the petition, and it's not the city weighing in on whether they think this project is warranted or the developer is worthy of receiving these tools.

Tyler CobbGUEST
But we wanted to make sure that we are respecting and acknowledging their development planning specification zoning entitlement rights.

Tyler CobbGUEST
um that the formation of a district would not impact any reported entitlement document development specification document or local ordinance uh relating to that land and then they were required to include as an attachment to their petition a copy of any such agreements and then they're also required to include a certification and evidence that they have notified on the same day that they submit this petition to the AFA that they have notified the local governments and municipalities of their intent to form one of these.

Tyler CobbGUEST
We want to make sure that the local governments are informed of what's going on in their backyard to the extent that we're forming another little municipal government there.
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E109- Interview with Tyler Cobb on Arizona's State Affordability Infrastructure District Legislation: Part 1
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Carter FroelichHOST
Tyler, would you like to add more color to that? And then we'll get to what that's setting the stage for the new legislation.

Tyler CobbGUEST
When we were sort of teeing this up over a year ago, it became clear that we were getting lapped by these states that we consider our competitor growth states on a per capita basis.

Tyler CobbGUEST
Colorado and Utah over the course of the past six years have financed 40 X, four zero X, the infrastructure that the state of Arizona has through these tools.

Tyler CobbGUEST
And Texas is much larger, larger on an aggregate basis, but it's over 10 X on a per capita basis.

Tyler CobbGUEST
And when you look at how these deals price in Colorado, Utah, and Texas, they get tremendous pricing results.
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Carter FroelichHOST
And then how did the parties come together? Was it the governor's office or was the HBACA, the builders, the stakeholders coming together? Was it a joint effort?
House Hacking a Fourplex: How Tyler Cobb Built 57 Rental Units
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Tyler CobbGUEST
... "Okay, I'll trust you." And good thing I did because, uh, I mean, years later I...

Tyler CobbGUEST
I got all of my closing costs paid for, so it was like net 345, I think, of what I paid.

Tyler CobbGUEST
Um, two years later, obviously this was before COVID, and then two years later ob- uh, COVID kind of like boomed the real estate market.

Tyler CobbGUEST
Um, rates were so low you could buy anything, it would make sense, and I sold that building for 475.

Tyler CobbGUEST
So which doesn't seem like huge, crazy numbers, um, when we're, when you, you, you look at like people who are buying these multi-million dollar apartment complexes.
