Pratt economic development group, city coordinate on Sandy Creek housing readiness; $75,000 returned to PADC
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Pratt Area Development Corporation and city staff discussed utilities, road funding needs and developer outreach for the Sandy Creek housing site; PADC received $75,000 returned from a childcare grant and plans a more rigorous incentive scoring system.
Heather (staff member) told the commission that Pratt Area Development Corporation (PADC) and city staff have been coordinating to ready Sandy Creek — a city‑owned parcel set aside for housing development. She said officials are assessing which utilities can be extended with less difficulty and are considering how to generate road‑building funds because the current parcel layout lacks an internal road system sufficient for planned housing.
“We’ve been working together of PADC in the city to determine which utilities have some flexibility to get into place without too much trouble, and then how and what will probably have to be done to to generate funds for the road because there's no additional way to build the roads that are needed within that development for additional housing without that,” Heather said.
Heather said PADC is reaching out to a developer who has built in the area and will meet next month with housing as the main focus. She also reported that $75,000 that PADC had previously pledged to a childcare center that is no longer moving forward has been returned to PADC and is allowed to be used for PADC purposes; Heather said PADC essentially used the funds on an incentive application the board reviewed.
Heather said PADC is “also looking going forward to create a system of scoring where, a little more precise in terms of jobs retained versus jobs created and those sorts of things.” No formal county action was taken on the housing readiness briefing during the meeting.