{"id":2136,"date":"2018-05-07T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2018-05-21T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:07:02","slug":"get-the-facts-on-residential-property-tax-abatement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/news-releases\/get-the-facts-on-residential-property-tax-abatement\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the facts on Residential Property Tax Abatement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to live in the Bridge Street District? You may have heard there is a property tax abatement for residential units within <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/bridge-park\/\">Bridge Park<\/a>. That is true. But it\u2019s important to know all the facts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Property Taxes in Bridge Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 27, 2015, Dublin City Council approved the establishment of the Bridge Street District Community Reinvestment Area (CRA). A CRA is an economic development tool available to municipalities to encourage the development of new structures and revitalization of existing housing stock through use of an exemption of real property. The use of this tool is particularly beneficial in redevelopment areas where the costs to redevelop are normally higher than the costs to develop vacant land.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment of the Bridge Street District CRA simply establishes the boundaries of the CRA and sets the framework such that property owners within the boundaries may request an incentive to receive up to a 100% real property tax exemption for up to 15 years for new construction. Each incentive must be considered on a project-by-project basis and would be subject to approval by Dublin City Council.<\/p>\n<p>As of September 1, 2017, only one CRA Agreement has been approved by City Council: the Bridge Park CRA. This CRA grants the owners of owner-occupied housing in Bridge Park a 100% real property tax exemption for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Development Charges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the Bridge Park development, Dublin City Council authorized the creation of the Bridge Park New Community Authority (NCA). The statutory purpose of an NCA is to encourage the orderly development of a well-planed, diversified and economically sound new community.<\/p>\n<p>One of the powers of an NCA is to impose the collection of a community development charge. A community development charge is imposed through a real estate declaration. It may be calculated on a variety of bases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uniform fees<\/li>\n<li>Property values<\/li>\n<li>Income<\/li>\n<li>Profits<\/li>\n<li>Combinations of the aforementioned categories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While a community development charge is not a property tax, unpaid charges can become a lien on the property against which it is charged. It is collected in the same manner as property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Within Bridge Park, the ability for the NCA to levy this charge provides a funding mechanism which can be used to pay debt service on bonds issued to pay costs of land development and community facilities, or costs of operating and maintaining community facilities. In Bridge Park, the community facilities include seven parking garages and the conference\/events center.\u00a0 These community facilities are owned by the NCA, not the City nor the developer, Crawford Hoying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the bottom line?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owners of owner-occupied housing within the Bridge Park development do receive a 100% real property tax abatement for 15 years. However, replacing the property tax is a community development charge that for condominium owners, shall be no less than the greater of the taxes due for a real estate tax valuation of $230.00 per square foot, or the then current valuation of the condo property as\u00a0 assessed by the Franklin County Auditor.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, the community development charge replaces the property tax and could end up being\u00a0 in excess of what the property taxes would have otherwise been. It is not the current policy of the City to use tax abatements within the Bridge Street District to lower or eliminate the tax payments of homeowners (or other property owners within the District), below those that would typically be paid in traditional real estate taxes. Rather, the intent is to have those owners pay at least the equivalent of their normal real estate tax obligation through other financing mechanisms (such as New Community Authorities) to help fund the needed community facilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BSB-Residential-Property-Tax-Abatement.pdf\">Bridge Street Brief &#8211; Residential Property Tax Abatement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to live in the Bridge Street District? You may have heard there is a property tax abatement for residential units within Bridge Park. That is true. But it\u2019s important to know all the facts. Property Taxes in Bridge Park On April 27, 2015, Dublin City Council approved the establishment of the Bridge Street District Community Reinvestment Area (CRA). A CRA is an economic development tool available to municipalities to encourage the development of new structures and revitalization of existing housing stock through use of an exemption of real property. The use of this tool is particularly beneficial in redevelopment areas where the costs to redevelop are normally higher than the costs to develop vacant land. The establishment of the Bridge Street District CRA simply establishes the boundaries of the CRA and sets the framework such that property owners within the boundaries may request an incentive to receive up to a 100% real property tax exemption for up to 15 years for new construction. Each incentive must be considered on a project-by-project basis and would be subject to approval by Dublin City Council. As of September 1, 2017, only one CRA Agreement has been approved by City Council: the Bridge Park CRA. This CRA grants the owners of owner-occupied housing in Bridge Park a 100% real property tax exemption for 15 years. Community Development Charges As part of the Bridge Park development, Dublin City Council authorized the creation of the Bridge Park New Community Authority (NCA). The statutory purpose of an NCA is to encourage the orderly development of a well-planed, diversified and economically sound new community. One of the powers of an NCA is to impose the collection of a community development charge. A community development charge is imposed through a real estate declaration. It may be calculated on a variety of bases: Uniform fees Property values Income Profits Combinations of the aforementioned categories While a community development charge is not a property tax, unpaid charges can become a lien on the property against which it is charged. It is collected in the same manner as property taxes. Within Bridge Park, the ability for the NCA to levy this charge provides a funding mechanism which can be used to pay debt service on bonds issued to pay costs of land development and community facilities, or costs of operating and maintaining community facilities. In Bridge Park, the community facilities include seven parking garages and the conference\/events center.\u00a0 These community facilities are owned by the NCA, not the City nor the developer, Crawford Hoying. What\u2019s the bottom line? Owners of owner-occupied housing within the Bridge Park development do receive a 100% real property tax abatement for 15 years. However, replacing the property tax is a community development charge that for condominium owners, shall be no less than the greater of the taxes due for a real estate tax valuation of $230.00 per square foot, or the then current valuation of the condo property as\u00a0 assessed by the Franklin County Auditor. Simply put, the community development charge replaces the property tax and could end up being\u00a0 in excess of what the property taxes would have otherwise been. It is not the current policy of the City to use tax abatements within the Bridge Street District to lower or eliminate the tax payments of homeowners (or other property owners within the District), below those that would typically be paid in traditional real estate taxes. Rather, the intent is to have those owners pay at least the equivalent of their normal real estate tax obligation through other financing mechanisms (such as New Community Authorities) to help fund the needed community facilities. Bridge Street Brief &#8211; Residential Property Tax Abatement &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}