As used in the Opportunity Enterprise and Housing Development Act: A. "affordable housing infrastructure project" means infrastructure projects needed to support housing for low- or moderate-income residents; B. "authority" means the New Mexico finance authority; C. "board" means the opportunity enterprise and housing development review board; D. "department" means the economic development department; E. "economic development opportunities" means the advancement of an environmentally sustainable economic development goal of the state as determined by the authority, in coordination with the department, and includes the creation of jobs, the provision of needed services and commodities to diverse communities across the state and the increase of tax and other revenue collections resulting fro
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As used in the Opportunity Enterprise and Housing Development Act: A. "affordable housing infrastructure project" means infrastructure projects needed to support housing for low- or moderate-income residents; B. "authority" means the New Mexico finance authority; C. "board" means the opportunity enterprise and housing development review board; D. "department" means the economic development department; E. "economic development opportunities" means the advancement of an environmentally sustainable economic development goal of the state as determined by the authority, in coordination with the department, and includes the creation of jobs, the provision of needed services and commodities to diverse communities across the state and the increase of tax and other revenue collections resulting from the enterprise development project; F. "enterprise assistance" means opportunity enterprise financing, an opportunity enterprise lease or an opportunity enterprise loan; G. "enterprise development project" means a commercial real estate development project primarily occupied by businesses unrelated to the opportunity enterprise partner that involves the purchase, planning, designing, building, surveying, improving, operating, furnishing, equipping or maintaining of land, buildings or infrastructure to create or expand economic development opportunities within the state; H. "housing development assistance" means a loan for workforce development housing projects or affordable housing infrastructure projects; I. "housing development partner" means a domestic corporation, a general partnership, a limited liability company, a limited partnership, a public benefit corporation, a nonprofit entity or any other private business entity or combination thereof that the authority determines is or will be engaged in a project that creates or expands housing within the state and is eligible for housing development assistance pursuant to the Opportunity Enterprise and Housing Development Act; J. "housing development project" means an affordable housing infrastructure project or a workforce development housing project; K. "opportunity enterprise partner" means a domestic corporation, a general partnership, a limited liability company, a limited partnership, a public benefit corporation, a nonprofit entity or other private business entity or combination thereof that the authority determines is or will be engaged in an enterprise that creates or expands economic development opportunities within the state and is eligible for enterprise assistance pursuant to the Opportunity Enterprise and Housing Development Act; L. "opt-in agreement" means an agreement entered into among the authority, the department and a county, municipality or school district that ensures compliance with all local zoning, permitting and other land use rules and that provides for payments in lieu of taxes to the county, municipality or school district; M. "payment in lieu of taxes" means the total annual payment paid as compensation for the tax impact of an enterprise development project, in an amount negotiated and determined in the opt-in agreement among the authority, the department and the county, school district or, if applicable, municipality where the enterprise development project is located in the same proportional amount as property tax revenues are normally distributed to those recipients; N. "workforce development housing" means below-market housing addressing demand for workforce housing for middle-income workers in proximity to employment centers; and O. "workforce development housing project" means a residential real estate development project that involves the purchase, planning, designing, building, surveying, improving, operating, furnishing, equipping or maintaining of land, buildings or infrastructure that provides housing, including housing that provides the option of home ownership.