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Athens amends TIF District 3 plan to fund Brawley Boulevard and nearby road improvements
Summary
The Athens City Council approved an amendment to the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District 3 project plan to add improvements along Brawley Boulevard and adjacent roads, allowing the city to use TIF District 3 funds for the revised public infrastructure. The measure passed unanimously.
The Athens City Council voted unanimously to amend the Tax Increment Financing District 3 project plan to include new public-infrastructure work along Brawley Boulevard and adjacent roads.
City Attorney Shane told the council the change is a short amendment to a plan originally adopted in 2022, removing prior language tied to a specific intersection and replacing it with a diagram and description of improvements along Brawley and the road beside Crystal. "What this is tonight would work an amendment to that TIF district plan," Shane said, adding the amendment would allow the city to use TIF District 3 funds for the listed improvements.
Shane said affected tax recipients — specifically the local school system and Limestone County — had been briefed and that the city has not yet drawn on TIF District 3 funds. "I don't believe the city council has drawn from the TIF district 3 fund for anything as yet, and so it is building," Shane said.
Councilman Lucas moved the resolution to amend the plan; a fellow council member seconded. After a roll call, the council recorded five yays and zero nays.
The amendment adds public infrastructure projects described in the resolution, including work on Raleigh Boulevard, Cool Springs Boulevard and Audubon Lane, intended to catalyze private economic development within the district. Council members asked whether separate traffic-signal work at the Highway 72 intersection would be addressed; staff and the mayor said that signal work is a separate DOT matter and not part of this amendment, though they have raised the safety concern with DOT.
The council’s formal action was limited to amending the TIF project plan; no immediate TIF expenditures were approved at the meeting. The amendment will be recorded in city TIF documentation and the council directed staff to follow the usual procedural notices to other taxing entities.
The council did not set an effective implementation date at the meeting; follow-up steps are to finalize the amended plan documentation and coordinate with engineering staff and affected agencies.
