Last week, the unofficial consensus was 3-2 against the proposal…and last(Mon) night the Burlington City Council voted officially to affirm that call, turning thumbs down on a 5-year, citywide property tax abatement for residential development.
Councilman Tim Scott says 3 of his colleagues have blinders on but Councilwoman Becky Anderson…who’s done a lot of downtown re-development…says the incentives should go to the developer, not the homebuyer, as the 3-year abatement does now.
Anderson, Becky Shockley and Mayor Shane McCampbell voted against the extension, while Scott and Bob Fleming were in favor of it.
