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Topic: tax incentive financing
County leaders opt out of downtown development plans
November 4, 2008 | 
Mayor Johnny Piper and the Downtown District Partnership will be going it alone when it comes to downtown development.
County Mayor Bowers, center, in anad hoc meeting with concerned minority citizens (CO archive photo)
Montgomery County mayor Carolyn Bowers, in letters sent to Piper and DDP chair Scott Giles, said the county will not participate in the controversial Clarksville Center Redevelopment Plan, which had been dubbed “the blight bill.” The proposed plan which was approved by the City Council earlier this year had been strongly opposed by the Clarksville Property Owners Coalition, a grassroots group that has challenged the legality of the program and process of eminent domain and an assemblage clause. The redevelopment plan would offer tax increment financing for certain property developments. «Read the rest of this article»
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