Priorities Emerge for East Bay TIF Plan
By Beth Milligan | Dec. 29, 2025
East Bay Township’s newly formed Corridor Improvement Authority (CIA) board – tasked with overseeing funding priorities and project implementation for the US-31 Beach District – is working to finalize its new tax increment financing (TIF) plan. The board could vote at its January 15 meeting to support the plan – which would include a list of projects to be funded by TIF over the next 20 years – before it heads to township trustees for adoption.
Trustees voted in October to establish a CIA, or a type of TIF district, along US-31 from roughly Avenue B to the eastern township limits (pictured). Like a downtown development authority (DDA), a …
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