Presenter
Presented by Mr. Dowd
Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal; Article IX, Property Taxes; Chapter 267, Exemptions for Industrial and Commercial Improvements; Section 267.03, Exemption Schedule; and Section 267.09, Participation by Allegheny County and Pittsburgh Board of Education, to extend the application periods for the exemptions set forth in Section 267.03, subsections (b) and (c), which were enacted pursuant to Ordinance 10 of 2007, to include applications filed on or after July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2017.
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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal; Article IX, Property Taxes; Chapter 267, Exemptions for Industrial and Commercial Improvements; Section 267.03, Exemption Schedule, is hereby amended to read as follows:
ยง267.03 EXEMPTION SCHEDULE.
Any person making improvements to deteriorated property or constructing or improving industrial, commercial or other business structures in deteriorated areas and/or in deteriorated underutilized transition areas may apply for and receive a tax exemption upon the improvements or construction as provided in the following schedule:
(a) With respect to improvements to deteriorated property or construction or improvements of industrial, commercial or other business structures in deteriorated areas, other than improvements constituting a qualified conversion to commercial residential use or a qualified conversion to residential use that are located in deteriorated underutilized transition areas:
(1) The exemption is granted to eligible properties located anywhere in deteriorated areas;
(2) The exemption granted is limited to a period of five (5) years, and the exemption from City real property tax shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) in any single year;
(3) The exemption granted shall be one hundred (100) percent of the real property tax upon the asse...
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