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Housing and Growth Committee advances four items including three CRA tax exemptions and a street renaming
Summary
The Cincinnati City Council Housing and Growth Committee placed on for passage three CRA tax-exemption ordinances covering residential and office rehabs and approved an honorary renaming of a stretch of MLK Drive for Deputy Larry Henderson; officials recorded investment and job estimates but no formal votes during the meeting.
The Cincinnati City Council Housing and Growth Committee advanced four agenda items at its meeting, placing them on for passage without recorded objection, Chair Council Member Mark Jeffries said. The items include three Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) tax-exemption proposals and an ordinance to rename a portion of Martin Luther King Drive in honor of a fallen deputy.
Jeffries said the first ordinance would authorize a 15-year CRA tax-exemption for 21 West Court Street, converting a currently vacant building into 12 residential units with commercial office space on the first floor. "These buildings are being converted from vacant buildings to productive use," Jeffries said, and the committee moved the item onto the consent list.
The second ordinance covers 2280 Harrison Avenue in Westwood: a new modular construction project described as five modules (10 units total), three-bedroom units, all targeted at 80% area median income. Jeffries said the project received $1,200,000 from the housing catalytic fund and has neighborhood backing. Council Member Kramenich praised the development and local partnerships, saying Westwood's revitalized business district and a CDF partnership helped the project move forward.
An ordinance from the committee's office would dedicate MLK Drive west of Burnett Woods Drive as "Deputy Larry Henderson Jr. Way". Jeffries summarized Henderson's service and death while protecting pedestrians near the University of Cincinnati intersection and said the family would be honored in the coming weeks.
The fourth item would authorize a 15-year CRA tax-exemption to modernize the AAA building on West Central Parkway. Jeffries said the developer plans roughly $24,000,000 in investment and that the city could see about $4,300,000 in income tax over the exemption term; officials also cited an estimate of 135 full-time-equivalent positions created and the return of roughly 30 employees who had been working remotely.
Committee members placed each item "on for passage" during the meeting; no formal roll-call votes or vote tallies were recorded in the transcript. The committee did not take additional action or make any formal findings on the projects during the session. Jeffries closed the agenda and adjourned the meeting.
The committee's next procedural step for these ordinances will be their appearance on a subsequent agenda or consent calendar for final consideration; the transcript contains no further timing or recorded votes.
