The Orange City Council Tuesday will take a major step in getting the new $5.6 billion Chevron Phillips chemical plant. The council will vote on an industrial district contract for the proposed plant to make in-lieu-of-taxes payments to the city.
The council has had several closed-door executive sessions on the status of the deal. But for the first time, Tuesday’s meeting has the council voting on the agreement. It comes a week after the Orange County Commissioners Court approved a tax abatement deal with Chevron Phillips.
The petrochemical plants on FM 1006, known as Chemical Row, pay the city a percentage of what they would if the plants were within the city limits under industrial district contracts.
More than half 1,700 acres for the proposed plant were in the Orange city limits. Last year, the city council disannexed the land. The disannexation came because the county could not create a reinvestment zone for tax abatements on land in a city limits.
The land is still within the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and is eligible for an industrial district contract.
The meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the council chambers next to the Orange Public Library.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
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