UPDATED: Council Takes Sweeping Measures to Boost Industry in the City
Members of the governing body voted to adopt tax exemptions and development incentives to boost industry in the city.
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Manassas Park’s governing body made sweeping changes to several of the city's ordinances at Tuesday night’s meeting.
Council voted in favor of an ordinance to amend Chapter 22, Taxation, and Chapter 31, Zoning, of the code of Manassas Park, in an effort to provide new incentives and tax breaks to incoming businesses and non-residential development over the next 10 years, provided that they meet the city's guidelines.
“Our goal is to bring more business into Manassas Park,” said City Attorney Dean Crowhurst. “If we find that the ordinances are not working in six months, we can always review them.”
Comprehensive planning, land use and zoning statutes were updated during the meeting and David Coates was re-elected to the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Both ordinances and the amendment to the land use chapter of the city comprehensive plan passed unanimously.
The Governing Body approved a resolution authorizing the PRTC to distribute to the city additional fuel tax funds totaling $41,164 for the city’s Manassas Drive Signal Connectivity project.
City officials said this is a State Revenue Sharing project, and the PRTC appropriation covers the city’s required funding contribution.
Motor fuel taxes collected by the PRTC from member jurisdictions go into a Fund for transportation services and may also be distributed to members for their local transportation projects. The city’s resolution requests a total appropriation of $371,164 from PRTC for the project along with other projects.
mp
5:24 am on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
to little too late. MP is on its last leg thanks to the mayor(clueless).
CP in the park
9:06 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
MP, While I too have been appalled by Manassas Park City Council decisions over the years, I must say that your endless, often venemous dribble makes the entire MPark population look foolish. You do not represent or define us. Please refine your comments. Seriously, what business will take a chance on coming here if their potential market has your mentality???? -CP in 'The Park'
mp
6:41 am on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Hey CP in the park
MP is broke. The mayor wants to tax the residents to death and fee us to death. The city does not want to collect unpaid funds from its employees and allows deadbeat unpaid people to continue to send their kids to the rec center even though they have not paid in over a year. Also the code enforcement is a joke. They can’t even find their way out of a wet paper bag. Finally MP is land locked. Prince William and Manassas has easy access to the interstates and that make them more viable to host businesses. The only high rise in MP is not full and the city wants to add more buildings like that. The City allowed the "City Center" to be built but failed to cap the rent on the retail space and the owner would not budge on price of the sq foot. Which is $100 over on Liberia it around $40.
I have a long laundry list of stuff that the current mayor and city council has failed in the past.