By Emma Loura
Following a public hearing Thursday, Riley County officials nullified the city’s plan to use tax incentives for a duplex development.
County commissioners unanimously denied the proposal from the Manhattan City Commission. The plan would have authorized the use of a state program called Reinvestment Housing Incentive Districts, or RHID.
An RHID is a program to help build homes in a community by capturing the incremental increase in property tax revenue from the new development and giving it to the developer to cover certain costs for a particular period of time. The plan on the table was a 26 townhome-style duplexes on Little Kitten Avenue. Two other RHID proposals are also on the horizon.
