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Lucas County Land Bank, new county business navigator outline services to Waterville council
Summary
Lucas County Land Bank President David Mann and county business navigator Karen Poor told Waterville City Council members the land bank works on vacant and nuisance properties and the county has a new navigator to help developers and residents through permitting and regulatory processes.
Lucas County Land Bank President and CEO David Mann and Karen Poor, the newly hired Lucas County business navigator, briefed the Waterville City Council on May 12 about programs the county offers to address vacant properties and to help users navigate permitting and regulatory processes.
Mann said the land bank is a “tool that's now been around for 15 years” to deal with “vacant, abandoned, and distressed properties” and to return real estate to productive, tax-paying use. He told the council the land bank has completed “over 8,000 projects in Lucas County” since its founding and that it typically works on residential properties and on larger commercial brownfield projects when funding is available.
The land bank’s funding, Mann said, comes first from “a portion of the…
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