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Board directs staff to refine public–private transportation improvement agreement with Celebration Point
Summary
After a full-day presentation and extensive questioning, the board directed staff Aug. 9 to finalize a draft Transportation Improvement District agreement with Celebration Point Partners that would capture incremental revenues for multimodal projects and phased transit service, and to return with revised percentages and language linking spending to service demand.
Alachua County commissioners on Aug. 9 directed staff to prepare a final draft Transportation Improvement District (TID) agreement with Celebration Point Partners that would support road, trail and transit investments in the county’s southwest mobility corridor.
Growth Management senior staff described the proposal as a public–private partnership tying a portion of future incremental revenues inside the district to multimodal infrastructure (roads, a trail bridging I‑75, dedicated transit lanes and a park‑and‑ride), plus annual contributions toward transit service. Jonathan Paul (Growth Management) said the TID would work like a tax‑increment mechanism: the district’s base taxable value would be…
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