Friday, September 26, 2014

Fiscal analysis

This is extremely informative and anyone interested should at least go through the PowerPoint. What it seems to conclude is that the net revenue to the Town from the proposed development would be about 1% of the current Town revenues. In other words, net revenues would rise 1%. Does that mean a potential decrease in Town real estate taxes by an offsetting amount? My response to this appears first below:

"This is very helpful.
 Since this is all predictive, can you provide a similar fiscal analysis of East54? for example, so that we can see how a project – not that old – actually translates into one-time and annual revenues and costs? Why rely only on a good-faith prediction when real data on real property is available so that we can test the validity of this analysis in a real case?
Thanks."

From the Town:

"Hello all,
Attached to this email is the fiscal analysis of the proposed Obey Creek development requested by Council during their June 23, 2014 Business Meeting. The Council will be reviewing this information during their upcoming work session on Wednesday, October 1st at 6:00pm. The meeting will be held in Meeting Room B of the Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive.
More information about the Obey Creek development agreement process can be found at www.townofchapelhill.org/obeycreek
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Megan


Megan K. Wooley, Community Sustainability Planner
Community Sustainability Division  |  Planning and Sustainability
405 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.  |  Chapel Hill NC 27514

Town of Chapel Hill  |  www.townofchapelhill.org
t: 919-969-5059  |  mwooley@townofchapelhill.org

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

"FedEx to Add 50,000 Seasonal Jobs" - ABC News

It's stories like this that make me wonder what stores will want to be at Obey Creek. How many seasonal jobs will get added to retail stores in Chapel Hill this year? What's the trend in the size of the Fedex workforce?