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Commission reviews two private projects seeking workforce-housing sales tax support and an IRB abatement
Summary
City staff presented two applications for the workforce-housing sales tax program — a townhome project on Morrow Street and Morrow Flats — and commissioners discussed caps, scoring criteria and accountability before directing staff to prepare formal agreements for June consideration.
Manhattan city staff on Tuesday presented two private development applications seeking assistance under the city’s workforce-housing sales tax policy and an associated IRB sales-tax exemption; one of the projects is also seeking a property-tax abatement tied to a performance agreement.
The applications, both sited on or near Morrow Street east of Aggieville, together request $295,000 from the workforce-housing sales tax account, city planner Stephanie Peterson told the commission. Peterson said the program has multiple limits written into the policy — per-unit and dollar caps, and a 10% cap that prevents more than 10% of a project’s total cost coming from workforce-housing funds — and that the 10% cap is the limiting constraint for both proposals this round.
The discussion matters because the workforce-housing sales tax fund is finite and the commission has debated how to use it to shape infill redevelopment. Peterson reported $1.5 million in receipts to date and said, after pending commitments, roughly $712,000 would remain available if the…
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