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Pickens County adopts ordinance to create capital improvement special districts for private-road communities
Summary
The Pickens County Board of Commissioners approved an ordinance establishing a process for property-owner petitions to form Capital Improvement Special Districts (CISD) — a tool to fund publicly owned capital repairs (10-year project life) via assessments on affected properties, with an 80% petition threshold.
Pickens County commissioners on Monday approved an ordinance establishing Capital Improvement Special Districts, a new mechanism that allows groups of affected property owners to petition the board to create a district that can fund qualified public capital improvements through assessments or special fees on those property owners.
County staff described the ordinance as aimed primarily at private-road subdivisions and other communities that lack established homeowner association funds to bring roads and drainage up to county standards. The ordinance, modeled in…
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