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PROJECT DESCRIPTION |
Community Redevelopment Area Plan
PROJECT COST
$20 million
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Winter Park, with an unfinished plan for a Community Redevelopment Area, asked ZHA to complete the city's plan. The CRA was created to improve blight—substandard housing, disproportionate amounts of rental homes versus ownership, congested traffic and parking, and barriers to real estate appreciation.
The plan looked at methodologies to solve blight through tax increment financing. (After a designated period of time, additional tax revenues generated from increased property values would stay strictly within the area defined as the CRA for improvements.)
ZHA proposed several solutions to upgrade the CRA. Among the recommendations were the following:
· Develop programs to help owners fix up their properties
· Develop methods to get more owner-occupied homes
· Change land use and zoning codes to encourage growth in certain key areas
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