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Commission urges city to consider fee waivers for historic downtown rehabilitations

Mansfield Historic Preservation Commission · January 20, 2026
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Summary

The commission recommended that the city apply neighborhood empowerment zone fee-waiver criteria to qualifying historic downtown properties, enabling eligible owners to request waivers of development and permit fees for preservation-appropriate rehabilitation.

At the meeting the commission unanimously voted to recommend that city management consider applying neighborhood empowerment zone fee waivers to historically significant properties in the downtown district.

"What we're gonna propose is to allow preservation to be one of those items that you could ask to have those fees waived,"…

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