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City staff outline land‑use incentive grant options to encourage affordable housing development
Summary
Housing director Nina Wilson briefed the committee on land‑use incentive grants — structures (property‑tax rebates, fee waivers, reimbursements), scoring rubrics tied to AMI and covenants, and examples from Asheville and Carrboro — and cautioned these tools require revenue sources and pilot testing.
Nina Wilson, the city’s community development and housing director, presented land‑use incentive grants as an informational tool the city could add to its housing toolbox. She described the mechanism as a grant paid by the local government after a public benefit is verified rather than an automatic tax exemption.
"A Land Use Incentive Grant is a local government incentive that is structured as a grant and it rewards a…
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