Weld braces for change in tax zone

WELD COUNTY — Last May, the state Economic Development Commission took a new look at the economic enterprise zones and the proposals submitted by the counties to see if the enterprise zones still qualified for the state-mandated distress criteria of higher unemployment and lower per capita income than the state average.
The Greeley/Weld Economic Development Action Partnership, EDAP, administrators of the Greeley/Weld Urban Enterprise Zone, submitted its proposal to the state commission and revised some of its own boundaries based on the state˜s mandated distress criteria.
"In 1996 we put in an application based on the state˜s criteria, and we…