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An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny Amending Ordinance No. 23636, as amended, to extend the applicability of said Ordinance to any eligible improvement, construction or reconstruction for which a building permit is issued on or before April 29, 2021.
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Whereas, The Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act (“LERTA”), Pa. Stat. Ann. Tit. 72 §4722 et seq., authorizes local taxing authorities to exempt from real estate taxation, for specific periods, the assessed valuation of improvements to deteriorated industrial, commercial and other business property; and
Whereas, the Township of Moon (“Township”), the Moon Area School District (“School District”) and the County of Allegheny (“County”) have enacted LERTA legislation providing for temporary exemption from real property taxation for specified time periods for certain increases in assessed valuation of improvements made on industrial, commercial and other business property in a deteriorated area of the Township conditioned upon the making of contributions of the exempted amount to the Moon Transportation Authority (“MTA”); and
Whereas, the Township, School District and County have previously amended their respective LERTA legislation to expire on December 31, 2015; and
Whereas, the Township and School District have enacted legislation further amending the original LERTA legislation to further extend the expiration date of the legislation to December 31, 2021 to advance certain transportation infrastructure projects in the Township, and
Whereas, the Township has requested the County of Allegheny to enact similar legislation; and
Whereas, the MTA is working with the Allegheny County Airport Authority on the extension of Cherrington Parkway, the upgrade of Ewing Road and the possible extension of Port Vue Drive and Stevenson Mills Road and funds for these projects will in part come from revenues derived from this program, and
Whereas, the County Council finds that ...
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