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Council adopts overlay to begin TIF process for ConAgra site; public hearing set for April 8
Summary
The Huron City Council approved a resolution creating an overlay and adopting an economic development plan to start an incentive-district TIF process for the ConAgra property and scheduled a public hearing for April 8, 2025.
The Huron City Council on Feb. 11 adopted Resolution No. 17-2025 to delineate an overlay and adopt an economic development plan as the first step toward creating an incentive-district tax increment financing (TIF) area for the ConAgra property, and set a public hearing on the proposed TIF ordinance for April 8, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
City staff said the action begins a multi-step state-required process under the Ohio Revised Code that must precede a final TIF ordinance. "This is one of a series of TIF pieces of legislation that will come before council ultimately leading up to the actual adoption of the TIF ordinance," Mr. Lasko said, adding the city expects to bring the ordinance for final consideration in late spring or early summer.
The resolution creates an overlay that covers roughly 10 to 11 acres at the ConAgra site, adopts a written economic development plan describing the anticipated public benefits from site improvements and includes an engineer's certification that public infrastructure improvements are needed. Council also approved a motion to set the public hearing for Tuesday, April 8, 2025, immediately before the regular council meeting.
City Manager Lasko told council the ConAgra purchase agreement had been fully executed Feb. 7 and that the developer's due-diligence period has begun. Lasko said the housing-friendly incentive-district TIF is being pursued because the city previously had to eliminate an earlier TIF that did not allow for for-sale residential housing.
When asked what would happen if the TIF process did not proceed, Lasko said the decision is ultimately at council's discretion but added that developers told the city they expected public infrastructure work—specifically fixing a seawall—to be completed before they would proceed. "If the city does not fix the seawall and make the investment, they will not make their investment," Lasko said.
The resolution and the public-hearing motion passed on roll call. The city will mail statutorily required notices and hold the public hearing before any final TIF ordinance is enacted.
The council's action does not itself create a tax abatement or development agreement; it starts the public-notice, hearing and ordinance process required under state law.
