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"Last night the council authorized the contract for a local contractor to build 4 new construction homes on Fleming Street in West Greenville. Bill Clark Homes will be building these new homes that will be available for households at or below 80% of the area median income with downpayment assistance available up to 20% of the purchase price. More progress for West Greenville and hopefully we will see new first time home buyers in our city! Thank you to Bill Clark Homes for building these homes at an affordable price by building these homes at cost!!"
Very nice to see affordable housing and development in the Greenville Heights area in addition to Uptown. We need to connect WG with UpTown!
In some ways it can be a good thing. Like less % match for certain grants like transportation projects. Higher priority for surrounding towns to secure grant funding for other projects as well. With piedmont and Hampton Roads adjacent counties moving from Tier 1 to Tier 2, we got bumped out. But, not all bad.
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So we are now a Tier 1 county. This is not good.
It's not necessarily a bad thing. The NC Legislature changed the way it calculated development tiers and that's the reason Pitt County was moved to Tier 1. It's not like there was a sudden shift in the economy of Pitt County.
"In 2018, the North Carolina General Assembly eliminated the so-called 'adjustment factors' that in previous years were part of the methodology used to calculate the state's economic development tiers. (S.L. 2018-5, Section 15.2.a)." https://www.nccommerce.com/documents...elopment-tiers
We have known all along that Pitt County's economy centers around education and health care. That adjustment is no longer considered when calculating development tiers. When only considering industry and manufacturing, Pitt County is weak.
The advantage to Tier 1 is that more money will be steered to Pitt County to attract manufacturing jobs.
In some ways it can be a good thing. Like less % match for certain grants like transportation projects. Higher priority for surrounding towns to secure grant funding for other projects as well. With piedmont and Hampton Roads adjacent counties moving from Tier 1 to Tier 2, we got bumped out. But, not all bad.
Onlsow, Wilson and Wayne went from 2 to 1 as well. Note that Chatham County is the least distressed.
This can be very helpful for communities like Bethel, Farmville, Grimesland and Grifton who havent necessarily shared in Greenville's prosperity.They dont have much cash and need to leverage tier 1 status to obtain grants.
No news article out there for it, but City Staff has recommended the merger of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission and the Parking and Transit Commission into a single board of seven seats. Both boards are currently advisory in nature and have not authority (as opposed to the zoning board and BOA, which are quasi-judicial).
While I think the idea of combining active transportation and public transportation into a single board is a good idea, the reason given was to eliminate issues of quorum. However, BAPC hasn't had such issues in a long time now, and depending on how the new commission would be constituted, could actually cause such problems if good members were eliminated.
No news article out there for it, but City Staff has recommended the merger of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission and the Parking and Transit Commission into a single board of seven seats. Both boards are currently advisory in nature and have not authority (as opposed to the zoning board and BOA, which are quasi-judicial).
While I think the idea of combining active transportation and public transportation into a single board is a good idea, the reason given was to eliminate issues of quorum. However, BAPC hasn't had such issues in a long time now, and depending on how the new commission would be constituted, could actually cause such problems if good members were eliminated.
Thoughts?
I don’t like it. Two different goals, even if similar.
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