Authorizing a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes program for development projects within a USDA designated food desert

This ordinance authorizes a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) program for a development project including 172 residential mixed-income units (30% of which will be affordable units) on a “blighted site.” Stated benefits of the project listed in documentation that is incorporated by reference include that the development site is located within a “USDA designated Food Desert” and that “as part of the development there will be an upgraded small supermarket/variety store…which will provide another source of fresh fruits and vegetable[s].”