Local ordinances will govern such things.  

Government websites tend to be a little tricky to navigate in my experience.

Especially when the tax money goes to a lot of waste like everything the government handles.

Helena not so much but as a government town it's a slow and steady grower IMO.

I am exposed to government and commercial tenant improvements or construction, where we are to perform then get paid, on these projects, we need capital to operate.

Having said that the Government of Canada has recently been issuing 50 year bonds, so they are borrowing for the long term.Meanwhile the seller is down to $147,000.

Due to the "tiered" system OPA had developed to pay varying dollar amounts per kWh, depending on the size of the nameplate capacity (size of the inverter), we found that doubling the amount of panels in relation to the inverter offered maximum "bang for the buck". 3.5 years later, the 500kW system on a 250kW nameplate capacity inverter went live (early November, 2013).Since we never had a mortgage on the building, historically, it was easy to finance the solar system by way of a new, small, first mortgage on the property.The building had a Net Operating Income or approximately $600K originally, but with the addition of this AAA, government "tenant" on the roof, we increase the NOI to around $1M.This was an opportunity which I believe only comes around a handful of times in one's life, so I'm certainly not expecting to do quite this well on every Real Estate investment.

Are there any ways to specifically get funding from the government or superfunds that could help offset the cost?

As far as the interest free loans I give the government, we try to minimize those, but we typically get some money back anyhow, and that has always gone to reduce any consumer debt (car notes etc).

I think @Jeff Rabinowitz put it best with his last line (from another post).Originally posted by @Jeff Rabinowitz: When you accept Section 8 you are partnering with the Government.