RE: Affordable housing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Gerald Rioux (riouxoro.net) | |
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 95 01:29 CST |
On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Geoff Mamlet wrote: > > We've been planning a community of 30 units, all at market rate. We've been > given to understand that the town where we are buying land to develop has a > strong interest in gaining more affordable housing. The idea is to offer to > add units that will qualify as "affordable" in return for being able to > increase the density of our development (we are already having to go through > a rezoning process just to be able to cluster units, instead of being subject > to the existing "snob" zoning of 1 unit per acre). So instead of a community > of 30 market rate units, we would become, say, a community of 30 market rate > and 5 "affordable" units. > Geoff, That's what they call a density bonus. Many communities offer them. In California, the state requires cities and counties to give a 25% density bonuses for housing projects that include an equal number of affordable units. It works well unless the higher density increases the development significantly. Jerry
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