Daily News | Mayoral candidates debate affordable housing and historic preservation
that reduced by half the value of the 10-year property tax abatement on new residential construction. There seemed to be no appetite to revisit the issue, with the exception of a recent proposal to apply it to affordable housing. Former CouncilmemberDomb noted that the abatement should also be revisited when it comes to finding new uses for“It’s a tool that we need to start using again on office buildings from City Hall to 20th and JFK to Market, because those buildings are empty,” Domb said.
The only hints of conflict between the candidates emerged around Brown, who owns 12 Fresh Grocers and ShopRites in the region. He’s one of the front-runners, according to the few polls of the race . That brought a retort from Rhynhart: “There was a mention about councilmanic prerogative. That’s a practice; it’s not a law, so there’s no way to get rid of it.”
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