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Board reviews redevelopment law, plan tools and options for town-hall site and vacant lot
Summary
Staff reviewed how declaring a redevelopment area changes the town’s toolkit (RFP sales, buy/sell authority, condemnation as a public purpose) and discussed implementation items including the façade program, circulation/parking links and potential uses for the vacant lot behind Athens and the town-hall site.
At a workshop meeting of the Economic Development Advisory Board, staff outlined why the town is using redevelopment statutes and how those statutory tools differ from ordinary real-estate procedures.
Staff explained that a declared redevelopment area, supported by a redevelopment plan, gives the town additional tools: the ability to buy property and resell through an RFP process rather than standard statutory auction rules for major disposals, and to establish redevelopment as a public purpose that enables the limited use of condemnation when…
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