{"id":126346,"date":"2024-01-04T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126346"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T03:08:09","slug":"ordinance-to-rescind-the-tax-exempt-local-economic-revitalization-tax-assistance-lerta-area-in-upper-mount-bethel-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126346","title":{"rendered":"Ordinance to Rescind the Tax Exempt Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA) Area in Upper Mount Bethel Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure has drafted an Ordinance to Rescind Ordinance 744, which created a tax-exempt LERTA Area in Upper Mount Bethel Township, at the Thursday, January 4th, County Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in the County\u2019s best interest to rescind a massive county property tax break for warehouses. At the end of 2023, the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission approved nine plans that did not demonstrate any need for a tax cut. This tax cut does not promote development. The people of Northampton County should not be giving away their tax money to something they do not support,\u201d says Lamont G. McClure.<\/p>\n<p>On April 20, 2023, Northampton County Council adopted Ordinance 744, which provided a property tax exemption for warehouse development in Upper Mount Bethel Township.<\/p>\n<p>If the\u00a0Ordinance to rescind the LERTA is approved, it would only apply to\u00a0Northampton County real estate taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Executive Lamont G. McClure has drafted an Ordinance to Rescind Ordinance 744, which created a tax-exempt LERTA Area in Upper Mount Bethel Township, at the Thursday, January 4th, County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ordinance to Rescind the Tax Exempt Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA) Area in Upper Mount Bethel Township<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}