Definition of Terms for Project Scorecard:
1
 Adaptive Reuse is defined as the Substantial Improvement of a building or series of buildings, that are not Historic Properties, for the purpose of incorporating a new type of development.
2
 Affordable Housing - In the case of a single-family owner-occupied unit, affordability is based on a sales price which does not exceed $110,000, per City Ordinance 200-02-23-0257, and which is occupied by a family whose household income does not exceed 80% of the San Antonio's Area Median Income, as adjusted for household size and as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  In the case of a tenant-occupied unit, affordability is indexed to annually published HUD Section 8 Rents.  These published rents are pre-set annually and based on household income and size.
3
 Application; On-line process to apply for incentives through the Incentive Scorecard to facilitate and expedite targeted development.  Apply at www.sanantonio.gov/incentives.
4
 Build San Antonio Green:  A program of the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy (MPE), which is co-administered by the Greater San Antonio Builders Association (GSABA) for residential projects to encourage building with resource efficient design and construction.
5
 Capital Investment - the total capital cost of project improvements, excluding acquisition costs, existing improvements, and sodt costs (i.e., architectural and engineering costs, development fees, etc.).
6
 Central Business District (CBD): Bordered by an area which starts at the intersection of Salado and El Paso Streets; north on Salado to its intersection with Frio Street; thence northeast in a straight line to the intersection of IH-10 and Cadwalader; south on IH-10 to IH-35; northeast on IH-35 to a perpendicular point connecting with Cherry Street; south on Cherry Street to Durango Boulevard; west on Durango to the San Antonio River; south along the San Antonio River to Arsenal Street; west on Arsenal to El Paso Street; and then west on El Paso to Salado.
7
 Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) - a private non-profit, community-based service organization with capacity to develop affordable housing for the community that it serves and recognized and certified by the City of San Antonio. CHDO recognition and certification takes place on an annual basis and is covered by the City's Housing Policy Guide. Partnerships with a CHDO must include a minimum contribution by the CHDO of 5% to 20% of total units at affordable housing rates in a mixed-income development as defined by HUD or if non-federal funds are utilized, using the City's definition of affordable housing.
8
 Community Service Facility - Construction or Renovation by a non-profit organization that serves a public purpose.  For example, daycare centers, clinics, shelters, community centers, universities, and charter schools.
9
 Corporate Headquarters - a firm's legal principal place of business with total assets of at least  five hundred million dollars, and/or it total revenues will be at least five hundred million dollars, for the corporate fiscal year preceding the date of the filing of its incentive scorecard application.
10
 CRAG - the inner-city area defined by the Community Revitalization Action Group as the San Antonio city limits prior to 1940, which is a 36 square mile area, with the center being the dome of the San Fernando Cathedral. The area is defined by Hildebrand Avenue to the north, Division Street to the south, Rio Grande Street to the east, and 24th Street to the west.
11
 Energy Star: A government-backed program that uses third-party inspectors to verify and certify energy efficient projects.
12
 Federal Empowerment Zone - a geographic area designated to allow businesses to receive wage credits, tax incentives, and bond financing to help stimulate job growth, and capital gains and deduction tax incentives to  promote economic development in targeted areas of the City. The core designated area of the Round III San Antonio Federal Empowerment Zone (EZ) is bordered by the MK&T Railroad Tracks on the East, Kirk St. Durango St. Mitchell St., and Martin Luther King Dr. on the south, S. San Joaquin Ave. on the west and Culebra Road on the North.   It also includes three primary Developable Sites which are: (1) the KellyUSA and Brooks Technology and Business Park Developable Site located in the southern sector of San Antonio connected by Military Drive commercial corridor; (2) the Fredericksburg Road Commercial Corridor; and (3) the I-10/I-35 Commercial and Industrial Corridor. For additional information, or maps of the EZ visit www.sanantonio.gov/edd/empowersa.asp.
13
 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) - number of actual hours of work by an employee in a standard workweek divided by forty hours.
14
 Heritage Property - a building, object, site or structure not yet designated as a landmark, but identified by the City's Historic Preservation Office as individually meeting one or more criteria for landmark designation or collectively contributing to the neighborhood character of a potential historic district.
15
 Historic Property - a building, object, site or structure designated by the City of San Antonio as a historic landmark, or a contributing property within a designated City or National Register Historic District; or a Registered Texas State Historic Landmark; or any structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
16
 Housing Unit: Any permanent dwelling unit such as a single-family residence, apartment, duplex, triplex, quadraplex, multi-family rental properties and condominiums.
17
 Incentive Agreement - A contract between a project developer and the City wherein the City agrees to provide incentives, for which a project is eligible based on the information relied upon by the City as provided by the developer on the Incentive Scorecard and Application, in consideration for the developer's promised performance in specific development targeted by the City.
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 Incentive Scorecard: A comprehensive inventory of existing development incentives designed to promote infill, affordable, mixed-income and market rate housing developments in targeted areas; encourage desired commercial and mixed-use development in targeted areas; foster development in driver industries; promote the restoration and rehabilitation of historic buildings; encourage development within designated revitalization zones; and promote neighborhood revitalization, all of which provide a scoring basis for determining incentive eligibility.  The scorecard system offers incentives via reduction, waivers or rebates of the following fees; street closures, sidewalk closures, preliminary plan review fees and SAWS water and sewer impact fees.
19
 Income Verification Form: Certification of household income provided by Applicant to demonstrate housing occupant meets Affordable Housing Criteria.
20
 Infill Housing:  New construction of residential housing units on vacant lots inside Loop 410 or south of Highway 90 that has not been developed previously or has became vacant through demolition of structures that formerly existed on the lot(s).  Infill sites consist of a single lot or a number of isolated, or up to five contiguous, vacant lots within previously developed residential areas.  Consistency of design with the the character of the existing neighborhood shall include features such as scale or size of structures, setbacks, and spatial relationships between buildings.
21
 LEED: U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Rating System.  Programs are offered for commercial projects to include Platinum, Gold, Silver certification or basic certified level.  LEED for Homes is the residential portion of the program.
22
 Living Wages - hourly wages the meet or exceed $9.06 an hour, or as adjusted by City Council (separate wage standards may apply for Tax Phase-In Agreements based on the provision of durable or non-durable goods).
23
 Market Rate Housing - a residential project for which at least 80% of new housing units (single-family or multi-family) are available for sale or rent at prevailing market rates and considered affordable to moderate to higher income households without requiring any housing subsidy.
24
 Mixed-Income Housing  - residential developments where 80% of the units are at market rate and where 20% of the units are affordable.
25
 Mixed-Use Development - A single project containing two or more occupancy types (residential, office, or retail) which utilizes a minimum of 15% of the total project occupancy square footage for residential purposes.
26
 Multi-Family Housing - A dwelling or group of dwellings on one (1) lot containing separate living units for five (5) or more families, but which may have joint services or facilities including duplexes, 3-4 unit structures, and apartment-type structures with five units or more. Multi-family housing also includes condominium units in structures of more than one living unit that do not meet the above single-family housing definition.
27
 Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) Corridor - Revitalization Projects areas designated by the City to promote and market the business district to potential customers, preserve and maximize the districts’ unique physical assets through design and planning of private and public improvements, provide assistance to promote business retention and attraction, and recapture the economic vitality which once characterized the areas.  NCR Partnership Projects are excluded. For more information contact the Neighborhood Action Department at (210) 207-7881.
28
 Neighborhood Conservation District (NCD) - a zoning overlay designation, with required neighborhood-based design standards, used to address appropriateness of new construction and rehabilitation in established residential neighborhoods and commercial districts. See UDC 35-335. For more information contact Planning Department at (210) 207-7873.
29
 New Development - Any new demand which increases the number of equivalent dwelling units or commercially viable spaces including, but not limited to, the subdivision and/or resubdivision of land; the construction, reconstruction, redevelopment, conversion, structural alteration, relocation, or enlargement of any structure; or any use or extension of the use of land.
30
 Non-profit: An organization/agency with an IRS 501 C exemption.
31
 Office Development Tenant Occupied - The construction or renovation of a building that will be primarily be used as office space and constructed or renovated by for for a tenant for the long-term occupation of such offices by the same tenant. 
32
 Office Development - Speculative - the construction or renovation of a building that will be primarily used as office space and constructed or renovated for the purpose of leasing such office space as determined by the market conditions to a yet undetermined tenant's).
33
 Permanent Jobs - new jobs that will be created as a direct result of the development and will remain filled for a minimum of two (2) years after the completion of construction.
34
 Project: a single platted development geographically and economically tied to a specific site which is a subdivision, a multi-family apartment project, or a large mixed used commercial and residential phased project
35
 Public Facility - a building owned and operated by a governmental entity, or its official designee, for the provision of non-secular services to the general public.
36
 Public Improvement - Improvements (minimum $1 million) made in public right-of-way contiguous to the project site or a 99 year public easement not already required by the UDC.
37
 Rebate: an incentive limited to eligible for profit affordable housing development projects, providing for future rebate of SAWS water and sewer impact fees following documentation of sale price.
38
 Reduction: an incentive available to eligible non-profit and for profit affordable, mixed-use, and market rate housing development applicants, which provides fee reductions of street and sidewalk closures.
39
 Reinvestment Zone: a geographic area, designated by applicable governing bodies, for which reinvestment is targeted, based on statutory or regulatory criteria, through the use of incentives.  Examples include the Federal Empowerment, State Enterprise and Defense Economic Readjustment Zones.  See also Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.
40
 Regional Draw - a development project that, due to the unique characteristics of the development, will draw population from throughout the City, the region and possibly beyond.
41
 Rehabilitation - the act or process of returning a building, object, site or structure to a state of utility through repair, remodeling, or alteration that makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions or features of the building, object, site or structure which are significant to its historical, architectural or cultural value.
42
 Restoration - the act or process of accurately recovering the form and details of a building, object, site or structure as it appears at a particular period of time by means of the removal or later work by replacement of missing earlier work.
43
 Retail Development - Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. Characteristics of retail trade establishments are: (1) the establishment is usually a place of business and is engaged in activity to attract the general public to buy; (2) the establishment buys and receives as well as sells merchandise; (3) the establishment may process some of the products, but such processing is incidental or subordinate to the selling activities; and (4) retail establishments sell to customers for their own personal or household use.
44
 Single-Family Housing - A single structure occupied exclusively by not more than one (1) family to include detached, semi-detached, rowhouse, and townhouse units. Row houses and townhouses are included when each unit is separated from the adjacent unit by an unbroken ground-to-roof party or fire wall. Condominiums are included as single-family housing when they are of zero-lot-line or zero-property-line construction, or when units are separated by an air space, or when units are separated by an unbroken ground-to-roof party of fire wall. Manufactured or mobile homes are excluded from receiving incentives.
45
 Substantial Improvement - Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure before start of construction of the improvement. This includes structures which have incurred “repetitive loss” or substantial damage, regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either: (1) Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary conditions or (2) Any alteration of a historic property, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation as a historic property.

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 Targeted Industries: The eight industries are as follows: Aerospace/Aviation; Biotechnology; High-end business services; Information Technology and Security; Logistics/Transportation; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; and Visitor-Related Business.
47
 Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) is a defined area in which Tax Increment Financing, a tool governed by the TIF Act in Chapter 311 of the Texas Tax Code, can be used by local governments to publicly finance needed residential and commercial public improvements and enhanced infrastructure within the zone. To be designated a TIRZ, areas must be economically distressed, unproductive, underdeveloped, or blighted, and impair the City's growth because of those factors.
48
 Total Project Score - the maximum number of eligible points for a project, as determined by criteria on the scorecard, which is subject to certification by the City's Economic Development staff or other designated representative.
49
 Trail Blazer - development that is the first of its use and/or size to locate within a major geographic area within the city, as determined by the Director of Economic Development. Determination is partly based on the difficulty of assessing the economic viability and sustainability of the project.
50 Tree Preservation - Exceeding the current tree preservation requirements by preserving  an additional 5% of the significant trees on a site for commercial or residential projects and providing a root protection zone and protective fencing for protected trees for residential projects.  Please contact the City Arborist at 210) 207-8053 for more information.
51 Unified Development Code (UDC): A codification of all of the regulations pertaining to land use and development, intended to be consolidated in one place, and in logical order, without unnecessary duplication.  The UDC has been made in accordance with a comprehensive plan for the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals and the general welfare of the community.  Developers must comply with UDC to be eligible to receive any incentives from the City.
52 Waiver: an incentive available to eligible non-profit and for-profit market rate housing applicants, which provides for street and sidewalk closures, preliminary plan reviews and for the waiver of SAWS water and sewer impact fees.