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SECTION C. NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE GOALS Planning, Economic Development and Land Use (As approved at the Legislative Goals Conference, December 10-11, 1992) 1. Economic Development Support legislation to help counties promote and accommodate economic development, including: State assistance to fund construction of water and sewer facilities, to provide financial assistance to county-owned water and sewer lines that must be relocated because of state highway improvement projects, to fund building projects and industrial park infrastructure; State appropriations to support local economic development initiatives and programs, including: Demonstration and pilot projects in economically distressed counties; Certified Development Companies throughout the state; and Lead Regional Organizations' programs to provide technical assistance in the area of economic and community development activities, provided such funding is at the option of the local government. Expanded authority to acquire land and construct shell buildings for economic development, to issue bonds to finance such projects through lease purchase or installment finance mechanisms or to fund the public share of a development project and secure the loan With property taxes levied on the new development generated by the public investment (economic development bond financing). Authority for counties to provide property tax incentive financing of significant new or expanded industrial investment by assessing such investments for taxation at a percentage of appraised value beginning with 50% of value and increasing 10% each year until such assessment reaches 100% of appraised value. 2. Plannln~ Support legislation to help counties accommodate growth through orderly local planning, through: o Provisions that authorize county government to use the measure of value in condemnation authorized in G.S. 136-112; i.e., to take into consideration the enhanced value of a remaining parcel of land resulting from the public improvement which occasioned the condemnation. o Increased appropriations to provide grants to counties in updating and improving Land Records Management Programs; and to insure the existence of at least a basle Land Records Management Program in every county; Provisions permitting public agencies to recover some costs associated with building and maintaining Geographic Information Systems and other public computer systems through the sales of electronic services and products as well as through imposition of reasonable fees for use of and access to such systems; -OVER- ¢-1 /3