Orange City first started putting together its request for a Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) more than a year ago, and submitted a plan to the county in September.
Now, city officials are looking uneasily at a Feb. 5 letter from Deputy County Manager Mary Anne Connors.
Connors said the county wants another 90 days to ask questions about the proposed CRA, and six months after that to act on the proposal. The reason? The county is developing new CRA policies.
CRAs siphon off property-tax dollars into a special fund, to be used only for improvements in the CRA district. Those siphoned dollars include property taxes that would otherwise be paid to county government.