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Business owner urges Effingham to use gaming, cannabis revenue to offset 2024 building-code costs; council explains legal limits
Summary
Mark Mahood told the council new 2024 state building codes are raising construction costs and urged the city to set aside gaming and adult-use cannabis revenues to help developers. Council members and staff said the city is limited by state statutes as a non-home-rule community and described steps already taken to reduce local burdens.
At the public-comment portion of the meeting, businessman and resident Mark Mahood urged the Effingham City Council to respond to higher construction costs resulting from the 2024 state building codes by using proceeds from video gaming and adult-use cannabis to subsidize developers or otherwise offset increased fees.
Mahood said he has been involved in multiple local projects and suggested that recent code adoptions may be making…
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