This presentation provides a history of tax incremental financing in Wisconsin, trends in its use, recent changes and best practices in using TIF to promote development that can lead to healthier communities.
3. Past & Current Use of TIF
TID Type # Active %
TIDs pre-10/1/95 213 18.7%
Blight 268 23.5%
Rehab/Cons 101 8.9%
Industrial post ‘95 193 16.9%
Industrial post ’04 77 6.8%
Mixed Use (‘04) 203 17.8%
Environmental 16 1.4%
Town Ag 3 0.3%
Total 1,074
Severely
9 0.8%
Distressed
Distressed 56 4.9%
1995 – 835
TIDS
Created, 408
were still
active
4. Recent Changes
• Sharing Revenue Between Districts
• ½ Mile Radius
• 1 Year Extension – Fund Low-Cost
Housing
• Town TIF – TAF
• Town TIF – Cooperative Boundary
• Multi-Jurisdictional TID
5. Applications: Healthy
Communities
Prairie du Chien TID
#5 Workforce
Housing
– transfer funds from
ind TID to ind TID for
low-cost housing
– City is developer
– energy star homes
– bike connection
to high school
High
School
Bike Trail
Universial
Forest
Products
100 Emp.
37 Single Family Lots
8. Applications: Healthy
Communities
Cambridge
Vacant Melster Candy
Property
• “Hole in the donut
along Koshkonong
Creek
• Senior housing
redevelopment proposal
• No bridge connection
to downtown - creates a
divided community from
a pedestrian perspective
• No community
connections to regional
bike trails
9. Applications: Healthy
Communities
Cambridge
• TID driven by
redevelopment
of Melster
Candy site
• Connect site &
west side with
downtown
• Connect
regional bike
trails
Connection to
Glacial Drumlin Trail
Safe bike
crossings of
Hwys 12 & 18
• ½ mile radius Existing Cam-Rock Trail
10. Applications: Healthy
Communities
Monona
• Housing stock – 1950’s;
not meeting needs of
modern households
• Losing residents to
communities w/ newer
homes
• TID #3 closing –
generating $120,000
• Kept TID open 1 year –
revenue used to fund
Renew Monona
13. Questions?
Gary Becker, CEcD
Vierbicher
999 Fourier Dr., Suite 201
Madison, WI 53717
(608) 821-3941
gbec@vierbicher.com
www.vierbicher.com
Editor's Notes
Recent economic development plan found that a shortage of affordable housing was a significant issue for most major employers in Prairie du Chien. City wanted to find a way to address this issue. Transfer of funds from TID #6 (Cabela’s) to TID #5 – both industrial TIDs. Recent change to TID law restricts how funds can be transferred between TIDs, allows exception for low-cost housing and environmental remediation. City decided to use surplus TIF funds from Cabela’s TID to acquire land in TID #5 to develop a 37 lot subdivision and install a street and bike trail to connect subdivision to the high school about 1/2 mile away. Covenants require all homes to be constructed to energy star standards. Lots will be sold for $15,000 - $25,000 – substantially below the market and less than the cost of development.