The City Council also adopted the city’s first-ever “microblight” study for the condemned Elms Lodge and Sherbeck Apartments block and approved microTIF incentives to start rehabilitating it for apartments.
Relocation and reconstruction of North Platte s skate park was the smallest of three recreation projects voters endorsed by approving a temporary half-cent city sales tax increase in November 2022.
Several North Platte City Council members grilled The Connection s executive director, Ashley Lewis, about its low-income apartment project s expected residents and programs. They approved R-3 zoning for the site, 6-1.
Meanwhile, proceeds from Lincoln County’s 4% lodging tax retreated in November but still moved 2023’s overall total within $2,547 of its calendar-year record of $1.204 million in 2022.
City Council members voted 7-1 to approve final designs and seek bids for expanding the North Platte Recreation Complex and Cody Pool. Councilman Mark Woods cast the lone vote against