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Committee hears bill allowing county park sales-tax use for natural stormwater projects
Summary
A hearing on House Bill 1271 (parks stormwater capacity act) covered language to permit existing county and city park sales-tax revenue to fund natural stormwater infrastructure in parks, with supporters stressing no new taxes and witnesses describing rain gardens, tree canopy and buyouts as tools.
Representative Allencamp presented House Bill 1271 to the House Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources, asking the panel to allow counties and cities to use existing park sales-tax revenue for natural stormwater management inside parks.
Allencamp said parks already absorb large volumes of stormwater and that the bill would explicitly permit sales-tax funds returned to counties for parks to be used for natural infrastructure projects—rain gardens, micro-marshes, expanded canopy and other measures that increase a park’s capacity to store and slow…
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