TOD / TAD Tax Incentives in Jacksonville

[Jdog]

Here are some questions I'll throw out, hopefully spurring a bit of knowledge-sharing and discussion.

1. Are there tax incentive programs in place for areas to be developed near the new BRT stops?  IE, within 1/4 or 1/2 mile packages of tax breaks become available. 

2. Is it feasible to create tax incentives for areas to be developed near identified - though still only possible - commuter rail stops?  If not, how can we prevent (or influence) future development preceding any commuter rail that would hinder more suitable, future TOD development at that spot (IE, the Philips Highway strips with their huge parking lots at Baymeadows don't seem compatible to any possible rail stop development density)? 

I don't think the Mobility Plan provides for things like property tax breaks or financial assistance packages. 

Thanks for your thoughts,   

[thelakelander]

The Mobility Plan/Fee includes several credit adjustments (I guess one could call argue that this is a form of incentives) for TOD/TAD around commuter rail, BRT and streetcar alignments.  However, the best thing the city could do imo, is to completely rezone these corridors to make future low density/auto-oriented suburban development difficult to pop up along them.