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Sahuarita study session starts multi‑meeting review of economic development incentives
Summary
Council held a study session introducing a multistep review of economic development incentives tied to the town’s economic development plan; staff recommended targeted, enforceable incentives and legal counsel outlined constitutional limits.
The Town of Sahuarita council held a study session to begin a multi‑meeting review of possible economic development incentives tied to the town’s economic development plan. Victor Gonzalez, the town’s director of economic development and public affairs, led the presentation and said the session is the first of several meetings to define why the town would use incentives, how they would work and what a tailored program should include.
Gonzalez said incentives are tools intended to “induce a business to invest” where it otherwise might not and that any program should be tied to the town’s economic development plan priorities: people (workforce), prosperity (business growth and jobs) and place (projects that elevate quality of…
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