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City commissioners review chamber committee request
By NATALIE JOHNSON
nataZie@nlc~soncoun(v.com
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The City of Shelton commission
reviewed a set of requests by the
Shelton Mason County Chamber
of Commerce's Shelton Alliance
for Viable Economic Revitalization
(SAVER) committee for the third
time Monday.
The committee decided to for-
mally request that the city consid-
er implementing some or all of its
requests, which it argues will sup-
port new business growth in down-
town Shelton, said Steve Goins,
the city's community and economic
development director.
"We've had this dialogue be-
tween SAVER and the city for
some time," Goins said. "There
had been some requests for clarity
on what these requests were and
quite a bit of time had transpired."
The SAVER committee used to
report to the chamber's govern-
ment affairs committee, but now
reports directly to the chamber
board.
In November 2011, SAVER first
made five recommendations to the
City of Shelton, that chamber di-
rector Heidi McCutcheon then
said would help new businesses
flourish in downtown Shelton.
The city commission asked that
the committee clarify some of the
requests.
Then in Feburary, Goins pre-
sented to the city commissioners
what he called a refined version of
the five suggestions, and again the
board had questions about each of
the requests and asked for more
clarification.
The first of the five suggestions
is a temporary moratorium on sig-
nage requirements; allowing busi-
nesses 180 days to install a perma-
nent sign, rather than the current
deadline of 30 days.
The second suggestion involves
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Steve Goins, City of Shelton community and economic development director, said the city
commission has received a formal request from a Shelton Mason County Chamber of
Commerce committee to ease restrictions and taxes to promote small business growth in
downtown Shelton.
waiving business and occupation
(B&O) taxes for new businesses in
Shelton's downtown core for the
first year of operation.
Third, SAVER would like the
city to waive transportation im-
pact fees (TIF) for new businesses
in existing buildings in the down-
town core. McCutcheon said this is
intended to draw business owners
to downtown Shelton.
A fourth recommendation is to
im
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shown to help small businesses
Last SAVER asked that the city
work with the Economic Develop-
ment Council of Mason County
to create marketing materials to
draw new businesses to vacant
spaces in Shelton.
At Monday evening's city com-
mission meeting, the committee
again presented the list of re-
quests to the commission.
"[The committee decided that]
create "low-rent incubator space" Instead of continuing to refine
in downtown. According to SAV- what these requests are, that
ER, these spaces are statistically they would make these requests
known," Goins said.
The committee asked the com-
mission to look at each request
separately, rather than as one
package.
"The committee asked the city
to look at the individual requests
on their own merit," he said. "The
commission seemed amenable to
that."
In the short term, Goins said
the city plans on updating it's
Transportation Impact Fees soon,
which could affect SAVER's third
recommendation.