{"id":19958,"date":"2013-03-11T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19958"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:10:57","slug":"county-officials-to-address-funding-for-blighted-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19958","title":{"rendered":"County Officials To Address Funding For Blighted Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unknown to a lot of people, the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners approved a CRA years ago, but it has never been used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commissioner Les Miller<\/strong> said when he came aboard, he realized the county wasn\u2019t using its CRA to help areas that have now been designated as blighted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter two years of discussions, we\u2019ve decided to put a CRA in our budget. I know areas like Progress Village, Palm River, Clair-Mel, Orient Road near the fairgrounds, are in dire need of help. I\u2019ve asked that a report be presented to us March 20<sup>th<\/sup> outlining what action can be taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecific blighted areas haven\u2019t been designated, but I\u2019ve pointed out the need for something to be done in my district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comm. Miller<\/strong> said infrastructure repairs are desperately needed in areas where flooding is still a problem, and water quality as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo dollar figure has been mentioned as to how much money will be used on infrastructure repairs in my district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(County Administrator) <strong>Mike Merrill<\/strong> hasn\u2019t presented his budget to us yet, and after he\u2019s done that, we can assess dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comm. Miller<\/strong> said they will be referring to the blighted areas as TIF (Tax Increment Finance) districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, we haven\u2019t gotten to that point yet. I want to look at how we will get this implemented, and we won\u2019t know that until we have a budget to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comm. Miller<\/strong> said although there are city water lines close by, Palm River has never had running water from the city or county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all using well water, and it\u2019s not always the best water to use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to bring Progress Village, Clair-Mel, Palm River, and the other areas back to where they should be, especially with Bass Pro Shops coming and generating more than $3 million in property tax revenues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer Unknown to a lot of people, the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners approved a CRA years ago, but it has never been used. Commissioner Les Miller said when he came aboard, he realized the county wasn\u2019t using its CRA to help areas that have now been designated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}