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Council directs staff to develop framework for public benefit rating system; legal review requested
Summary
Councilors agreed to move forward with staff direction to develop a public benefit rating system framework—designed to offer tax incentives for environmental, conservation and community-benefit actions—but flagged assessor capacity and asked legal to confirm whether staff outside the assessor can develop the program.
Councilors on April 1 revived discussion of a public benefit rating system, a program that would offer tax incentives for landowners who provide specified public benefits such as farmland conservation, parks and trails.
The policy has been studied previously (work dating back to 2017); council members said preliminary work…
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