The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.
Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina:
UNC SOG faculty Kristina Wilson on “Three Public Records Law Changes in the 2023 Budget.” One on economic development allows withholding records pertaining to the identification, evaluation, and acquisition of certain sites for industrial recruitment. https://bit.ly/3t6IFN3
DFI in the news:
The former Kesler Mill brownfields site in Salisbury, NC moves one step closer to redevelopment, with guiding public interests approved by City Council as part of a pre-development feasibility analysis process led by UNC DFI. bit.ly/3rh0w3p
Other CED Items:
Tax foreclosure sales can perpetuate vacancy and blight when new owners don’t maintain homes. West Virginia hopes to address this: Bidders must qualify to bid at tax sales; if no one bids, then adjacent owners & public-oriented entities get priority to acquire. https://bit.ly/461eANJ
Harvard researchers propose for real estate developers to apply “health situation analysis” to identify how a project positively enhances the surrounding community based on social determinants of health and other neighborhood data. https://bit.ly/3LHS1FE