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Blue Ribbon Committee presents 'invest-ready' recommendations and incentive toolkit to council
Summary
Consultants working with the mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee outlined a flowchart to streamline development approvals, an incentive toolkit of roughly 15–16 options for encouraging targeted development (including affordable housing), and a scoring tool to evaluate projects; they proposed an 'Invest Ready Communities' pilot with Evansville as a test.
Consultants for the mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee updated the Evansville Common Council on Sept. 22 about recommendations to streamline approvals and attract development, with a focus on increasing affordable and mixed-use housing.
Andrea Kissel of the Veridis Group, Jack Woods (Divertis Group and Civitas Strategies) and Pete Olson (Civitas Strategies) presented a multi-part strategy that the committee developed over roughly nine to 12 months. Their work included (1) a public-facing flowchart clarifying where developers and businesses should begin the approval process; (2) an "incentive toolkit" enumerating about 15–16 tools the city could use to encourage targeted projects; and (3) an evaluation spreadsheet for Development and Metropolitan Development (DMD) to rate…
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