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Residents press commissioners to scrutinize proposed Northridge TIF and annexation effects
Summary
A resident urged the county to reconsider tax-increment financing practices and annexation, arguing TIFs can shift tax burdens and encourage sprawl; commissioners said the school and township would be made whole on the Northridge proposal and that the county will continue review.
Diana Daniels of Springfield Township urged commissioners to scrutinize proposed tax-increment financing (TIF) arrangements and annexations, saying that while TIFs once encouraged industry they now risk encouraging sprawl and shift tax burdens to residents. "One of the resources that Clark is rich in, of course, is water, land, and bedrock," Daniels said, and she argued county resources should not be given away without careful consideration.
Commissioner Sasha L. Rittenhouse responded that, in the Northridge TIF under discussion, the school and township would be made whole and that buyers would "pay 5 mil more than their neighbors do," a statement in the record whose units were not clarified at the meeting. Commissioner Richard L. Lohnes said the county historically has pushed back when necessary and that commissioners would review the proposal.
Daniels urged greater public input and questioned whether developers, rather than townships and schools, were benefitting from past TIFs. Commissioners said they would discuss the matter and that annexation rules currently limit the county's formal ability to block annexations that meet legal criteria.
The work session did not produce a final vote or formal action on any specific TIF; commissioners said they would continue the review process.
