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County to workshop residential development incentive after board questions thresholds
Summary
Commissioners pressed staff on a residential development incentive’s $5 million threshold, 4× median-income eligibility metric and rebate mechanics; staff will schedule a workshop to collect revisions and return a revised draft.
During the Sept. 18 Columbia County meeting, commissioners focused extended discussion on a draft residential development incentive program and asked staff to return with clarifications and proposed revisions.
Speaker 4 noted the draft’s $5,000,000 minimum investment threshold and said the revised incentive included a 70% tax abatement; Speaker 6 questioned whether the 4× median-household-income eligibility metric would exclude most local projects given Columbia County’s relatively low median income. ‘‘The household…
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