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Statesboro TAD map faces Dec. 31 goal
City Council hopes to have plan for first reading Dec. 2
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After voters granted the city of Statesboro redevelopment powers through a Nov. 4 referendum, business leaders, city officials and consultants are scrambling to map a Tax Allocation District, or TAD, for downtown and to adopt a redevelopment plan before Dec. 31.City Council is slated to have a TAD plan in hand for a first reading Dec. 2 and a public hearing and council vote Dec. 16.About 20 local people, including officials as well as businesspeople in the South Main Street Redevelopment Coalition, met for about two hours Thursday with consultants from Bleakly Advisory Group. Detailed maps of Statesboro with potential TAD boundaries shaded in were on the table for the meeting at The Hall By 40 East Grill.However, the meeting did not end with a finished map, Allen Muldrew, the executive director of the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority, reported Friday.“The district that was drawn out around the Main Street area does not have enough projected economic growth to do any kind of improvements on South Main,” Muldrew said. “So as a community, if that’s still the priority, we’ll have to kind of branch out from downtown.”But one thing local people learned from the consultants is that the district can be extended narrowly along highways and streets to take in other areas with potential for development while leaving out already developed areas.
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