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City staff proposes $27,011 reprogramming and a pilot ‘24/7 Downtown’ upper‑story housing incentive
Summary
Community development staff presented a request to transfer $27,011 within the Legacy Hopkinsville fund to cover new‑construction incentives and introduced a pilot program to reimburse upper‑floor residential conversions in the Downtown Renaissance District. Council forwarded both items to the full council for consideration.
Holly Boggan, a city staff member, told the Committee of the Whole on Jan. 23 that staff was asking the committee to forward a municipal order to transfer $27,011 from two Legacy Hopkinsville line items into the account used for new‑construction incentives. "We're requesting a transfer of $27,011 to fund any new incentive applications for new construction that come through," Boggan said.
The proposed transfer would move money from an interagency governmental task‑force line item and from the homeownership assistance line so staff could cover incentive requests tied to new single‑ and multifamily construction in legacy Hopkinsville neighborhoods. Boggan presented a full line‑by‑line fund balance as of January 2025,…
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