EASTON, Pa. — A plan to allow tax relief to the developers of the long-vacant Dixie Cup plant found support during a hearing by Northampton County Council on Thursday night.
Despite that, tensions were high as council fielded commentary from Wilson Borough and Palmer Township government officials, Wilson Area School District administrators — and even a county commissioner who walked out in the midst of the meeting.
Council held the public hearing on so-called Tax Increment Financing — a financing mechanism that phases in property taxes and allows builders to pump money that would have gone to taxes back into the project to spur redevelopment…