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Carroll County planning group debates stronger master-plan language, housing incentives
Summary
At a planning working session, members discussed using tax breaks, density bonuses and targeted parcels to spur mixed-income housing and urged staff to translate broad goals into specific, implementable master-plan language.
Members of a Carroll County planning working group debated how to make the county's next master plan produce housing development rather than remain aspirational, with participants proposing tax breaks, density flexibility and targeted parcels as tools to encourage mixed-income projects.
A committee member who described incentives used in other jurisdictions said many come down to property-tax waivers or tax-increment financing and cited Port Covington as an example, saying the developer received years-long tax relief and city-funded infrastructure. "Well, if you want me to build this for housing, then we're not gonna pay taxes for 10 years, 20 years, whatever it might be," the committee member said. He later characterized the…
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