Weatherford
Weatherford City Council, Oct. 20, 2015: 1 item; Review transportation funding and economic development options
0 consent items, 1 regular item. Written from the minutes.
Review transportation funding and economic development options. Trent Petty with Petty and Associates launched this item. Mr. Petty explained that a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) is a widely used economic development tool that allocates revenues for public improvement projects with no new taxes. Public improvements are paid for over time by allocating a portion of the revenues from new development. With the TIRZ tool the council has complete control over what gets paid for, how much, who gets paid, and what projects qualify. One hundred percent of the revenues are controlled by the local taxing entities, no up-front costs are required, there is no impact on the city's bond rating or debt capacity and there is no reduction of dollars necessary to maintain operations and services. Some reasons to consider a TIRZ are: Substantial areas of open or undeveloped land in which the sound growth and development has been impaired Need for major public improvements to support sound growth and development Lack of capital debt funding to pay the infrastructure costs up front Regional benefits that exceed the benefits realized within the boundaries of the area The area would not develop on its own in the foreseeable future due to the lack of public improvements Allows other taxing entities (not including school district) to participate at their own discretion Boundaries [...]
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Sources: City of Weatherford: council minutes, Oct. 20, 2015 (Granicus); Agenda for this meeting (Granicus); Meeting video (Granicus)