[CPEO-BIF] Housing incentives, Adrian, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City leaders rebuff one of their own

Commissioners deny Kirk Valentine’s request for an incentive to build 
apartments in the city.

By Andy Rogers
Adrian Daily Telegram (MI)
November 21, 2006

ADRIAN — In what board members called a "difficult" and "uncomfortable" 
scenario, the Adrian City Commission voted Monday to deny an economic 
development incentive to one of its own members.

Commissioner Kirk Valentine, a partner in Collegeview LLC, did not vote 
or take part in commission deliberations on the issue. Collegeview LLC 
had sought a $31,000 reimbursement from the city’s brownfield authority 
to help Valentine and his brother build an 11-unit apartment building at 
943 W. Maumee St., the site of a recently demolished funeral home. The 
plan has met stiff public opposition from neighbors.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/2006/11/21/news/news01.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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