Politics & Government
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.
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.”
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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.
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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.