ELKHART COUNTY COUNCIL; Hundreds more RV jobs are coming; C.R. 17 extension planning begins
A tax phase-in is a partial or temporary exemption of a company from having to pay property taxes with the express purpose of stimulating economic development.
Introducing the phase-in request was
"We are competing for an opportunity for the second phase, which would be the first expansion, of East 2 West And North To South RV," Dobson said of the project, which is located at the intersection of
Dobson noted that building has already commenced on the company's first two facilities, and the county will be competing for the third and fourth buildings the company has planned for construction.
"I'm very excited about what this could mean, because just sort of from form and function, quite often in a trailer operation, there are 28 floor plans with 50 different color combinations, and you could imagine what that does to cost and quality situations when you have so many variations coming down the line," Dobson said. "There will be fewer floor plans, fewer options, it should streamline the manufacturing process, it should improve the skill of the trades of the people who are working on them, bring something to the market at a little bit lower cost than the competition, and I think it represents kind of a strengthening of the RV process."
According to county attorney
"The project has been developed with the proposal being for real estate phase-in only," Buche said of the request. "The term is for the project to be completed by
Among those to express strong support for the request Saturday was Councilman
"This is a pretty exciting project as far as I'm concerned because what it does is it kind of takes a new look at the way manufacturing of the recreational vehicles are being done in
The remainder of the council's members agreed, and the resolution was approved unanimously save for Councilman
With the declaratory resolution for the tax phase-in request approved by the council Saturday, consideration of a final, confirmatory resolution for the request will take place at the council's upcoming August meeting.
C.R. 17 EXTENSION
Council members Saturday also approved an additional appropriation request by
"We need to take a look at the corridor and determine the best route to take to
"All of this information has to be gathered, one, for the council and commissioners and the highway department to make a good decision on the best location," he said. "The other thing it provides is, we have an environmental document that has been approved that is very outdated. It needs to be updated. I can go on and on. But this is not the end to the engineering that will be required to go to
In addition, Taylor said the study will allow the county to determine if funding individual sections of the roadway over time, rather than attempting to do the entire extension outright, may be the best option funding-wise.
"If you think about the corridor going north, this is exactly what we did. We went from C.R. 18 to C.R. 26, C.R. 26 to
Councilman
"(County Commissioner)
Also expressing strong support for the request Saturday was Councilman
"I have people that I see every month or so, and instead of asking me how I am and things like that, the first thing they ask me is, 'When are you going to start on C.R. 17?'," Stump said. "There are people that are very interested in this being extended, and I would be one of them, and I would hope that you'd get it done sooner than 20 years, because I don't know if I'll have a driver's license then. I hope to."
For his part, Councilman
"I think it is extremely important that we figure out the design so that we can put that out for the general public so that people can make plans and know how they're impacted. Because when you build a road, you impact people. It's as simple as that. So they need to have that information," Hess said. "Even though it might not impact them for 15 years, it might give them the kind of information that they need. So I think it's important that we do the engineering, and then we can figure out, 'OK, now how do we go from here?'"
The others on the council agreed, and the
OTHER BUSINESS
In other business, council members:
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