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Committee hears bill to let small Kansas towns designate whole municipality for neighborhood-revitalization rebates
Summary
House Bill 2470 would allow municipalities with fewer than 10,000 residents to designate the entire municipality as a Neighborhood Revitalization Area, giving local governments the option to rebate a portion of increased property taxes to investors; Pratt County counsel Tyson Eisenhower testified in support and explained mechanics and legal background.
At a House Committee on Taxation hearing, proponents urged lawmakers to approve House Bill 2470, which would let municipalities with populations under 10,000 designate the entire municipality as a Neighborhood Revitalization Area under the Kansas Neighborhood Revitalization Act. Tyson Eisenhower, county counselor for Pratt County, testified as a proponent via Webex.
Eisenhower told the committee the bill responds to a legal obstacle created by an attorney general opinion from the 1990s (cited in testimony as “opinion 98 or 96 38”), which he said has been interpreted to prohibit designating an entire municipality as a revitalization area and was intended to limit the program to blighted areas. “I’m not in a…
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