By Alan Mauldin
It’s not every day that a group of business owners voluntarily ask for a tax increase, but that’s what has happened with the proposed first Community Improvement District that could be approved this month by the Albany City Commission.
Business owners in the Albany Westover CID in northwest Albany, which follows the Westover Boulevard and Dawson Road corridors, say they are hoping that the special tax district will boost aesthetics and safety. The district is being so designated to raise funds that can be matched with other government funding sources for improvements like traffic and sidewalks.
“The idea is that there are things the group can do collectively that individual property owners can’t,” Colony Bank CEO T. Heath Fountain, who helped organize the community improvement district, said.
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