Tax slice from new commercial development

The first shovel of dirt has yet to be turned at a proposed development near Clemson.  Yet county governments are lining up for their share of taxes to be derived from the proposed Hartwell Village near U-S 123/SC 93, where once stood the Defore Milliken textile plant.  Pickens County Council sponsors a public hearing during its 6:30 meeting tonight on an ordinance that sets up a joint industrial/business park with Oconee County at the property which is located inside Oconee.  Scott Moulder, Oconee County Administrator, says although the two counties are to share the project in the industrial/business park, the financial advantage will be enjoyed by the host county, Oconee, as Pickens will derive no more than one percent of the generated taxes.