Washington County supervisors optimistic about The Falls legislation

Washington County:

“As the Virginia House of Delegates version of the bill that modifies funding language for The Falls retail development — and includes land in Washington County — crosses over into the Senate, county leaders appear cautiously optimistic about its chances. ‘The glass is half-full,’ said Jason Berry, county administrator.

Although the Senate’s version of the bill was defeated — including a substitute motion that would have pulled the 200 acres of county land out — there is hope that House bill 593 will make it out of the Senate Finance Committee during crossover. The bill would change 2012 legislation to provide sales tax revenues to help fund construction of the city’s retail development project off of Interstate 81’s Exit 5. City leaders want to specify how and when the city would get sales tax payments, as each business is completed rather than at completion of the project as originally worded, and county leaders want to be added to the mix. Last fall, the city and county signed an agreement to work together on the legislation.”

~Writes Allie Robinson Gibson of the Bristol Herald Courier

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