Council hears CRA, enterprise zone comparisons

From: Daily Record, The Wooster, OH | Date: February 5, 2008| Author: BRYAN SCHAAF | Copyright information

By BRYAN SCHAAF

Staff Writer

WOOSTER -- Prior to Monday's council meeting, city administration gave members a detailed presentation contrasting and comparing Community Reinvestment Area and Enterprise Zone tax abatement programs, particularly how they fit into a proposed expansion of the CRA to the city's northeast corridor.

The proposal, which was given second reading at the ensuing council meeting, would extend the city's existing CRA up state Route 585, encompassing the...