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Council reviews draft scoring criteria for downtown facade and local business grants

5814600 · June 3, 2025
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Staff presented draft objective scoring criteria for downtown façade and local business grants, including financial leverage, local ownership and project readiness; councilors discussed weighting for leverage and how to handle national franchises owned locally.

City staff presented draft scoring criteria intended to standardize awards for the downtown façade grant and a separate local business grant. The façade grant criteria apply only in the downtown or downtown transition zone and use a mostly 5‑point scale across categories such as local ownership, project readiness,…

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