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Zoning and Land Use Team is continuing to monitor all aspects of the Philadelphia land use approval process during the COVID-19 emergency, including the issuance of zoning and building permits, regulation of construction work, and zoning and land use related legislation in City Council. Below, we provide information on land use related legislation passed by City Council last week.
Tax Abatement Legislation Update
On December 10, 2020, City Council voted to advance three bills related to the property tax abatement (described in detail in our last
Bill No. 200653 reduces the benefits of the commercial/industrial tax abatement (the Ordinance 1130 abatement). This bill reduces the tax abatement to 90% of the value of the improvements for 10 years. This reduction would apply to all applications filed after December 31, 2021.
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The global pandemic has postponed a number of high profile events and projects in Long Beach and abroad, but a proposed gondola system appears to be moving forward and could be back in front of the City Council as early as next year.
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Known as “The Wave,” the gondola system was pitched to the City Council in March 2019 as a way to potentially connect Downtown to the Queen Mary and surrounding hotels via gondola. The project is projected to cost between $80 million and $100 million, however, the city is not anticipated to play a large part in financing it.
Tugboats, icebreaker to be deployed to break up ice jams along Mohawk | The Daily Gazette
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Tugboats Margot, front, and Benjamin Elliot, are docked at Lock 7 on the Mohawk River in Niskayuna on Monday.
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SCHENECTADY An icebreaker and tugboats will be deployed this winter along the Mohawk River and Erie Canal as part of a pilot project to break up ice jams that have long plagued the waterways.
The effort is part of the state’s “Reimagine the Canals” initiative, the effort rolled out earlier this year to improve resiliency along the flood-prone corridors.
Union College Professor Dr. John Garver, who has long studied ice jams and flooding, called the plans an “important first step.”
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