Leaders of the Lanier Islands Parway Community Improvement District have reached a significant goal in getting the district formed — getting the agreement of property owners making up 75 percent of the district’s total property value.But there’s another milestone to reach: getting the nod from 50 percent, plus one, of the commercial and industrial property owners in the proposed district.“You have to have a simple majority of the owners and a super majority of the value,” said Mack Burgess, interim director of the proposed district.“We need 12 to 16 percent more (to reach the majority). Along Lanier Islands Parkway from Lake Lanier Islands (resort) to I-985, we’ve gotten a lot of support.”The group is currently seeking support from industrial parks in the area.“We’ve got a bunch of meetings coming up this month and we feel confident we’ll be able to get the support we need in order to get it through,” Burgess said.Allowed under the state constitution, a community improvement district is a self-taxing entity created voluntarily by property owners to pay for infrastructure, such as roads and sewer, and services.Burgess still is shooting for completion of the effort by the end of February, to be eligible for the 2013 tax year.“If it gets to the point where it’s time for us to turn everything in (to the Hall County tax commissioner) and we don’t have exactly the map that we want, we can manipulate the lines that cut out folks who haven’t been supportive and include folks who have,” Burgess said.At this point, “we will be able to get a CID through,” he added. “It may not be as big as we initially anticipated, but we have enough support now that we can say, for sure, we’ll have something.”The CID planners are aiming for a tax rate of 5 mills on only commercial and industrial property owners in the district.