The LeFleur East Business Improvement District is official: The Jackson City Council approved the formality of an order creating the district.
The district will be the third of its kind in the city, following the lead of one in Fondren and one in downtown Jackson where property owners pay a special assessment along with their property taxes to foot the bill for projects such as beautification and additional security
In August, business and property owners in the district’s boundaries voted 62 percent in favor of creating the district.
Plans call for asking business property owners in the LeFleur East boundaries to pay an additional 7 cents per square foot of property along with their annual property taxes, said Clay Hays Jr., chair of the LeFleur East Foundation Board of Directors.
The assessment would generate a total of $200,000 a year, he said. Fifty-five percent of the funds would go to landscaping, 35 percent to public safety and the rest to marketing, administration and a special contingency fund.
The Hinds County Tax Collector would collect the funds and the foundation would be responsible for using them. Funds would not be available until January 2024.
The District at Eastover, Highland Village, Maywood Mart, Banner Hall and The Quarter as well as businesses along Lakeland Drive are in the district boundaries.
LeFleur East boundaries extend from north of Hanging Moss Creek to south of Lakeland Drive and LeFleur’s Bluff Education and Tourism Complex and east to west from the Pearl River to I-55 North.
Founded in 2012, LeFleur East has cleaned and added new plantings at Exit 100 on Northside Drive and made improvements to the median along Lakeland Drive.
