Business View Magazine | January 2020

322 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 that the Village is striving to promote through the purchase of some land and putting out some RFPs for the type of development that we’d like to see happen, where you would have office or retail on the lower level and residents on the second and third level,” says Young. “Our zoning ordinance would accept that, now, and that’s exactly the RFP that we put out for a piece of Village property in our downtown but, unfortunately, we didn’t receive much interest. We are reworking that and trying to load some incentives into it so that we can see that type of development take place. Right now, we have two TIF districts in the community, and one is centered in our industrial park. That’s the major incentive program that we have for either redevelopment or new development.” Jerad Chipman, Montgomery’s Senior Planner, talks about some of the green programs and sustainable initiatives in which the Village is involved. “We’ve worked with some regional entities on items such as the Greenest Region