The Community need to provide the basic infrastructure for the Community to function and a safe and healthy way. That what taxes are for.
If the Community does not have the ability to do this, the State needs to step in.
When you add costs that are not really the responsibility of the Developer those costs are passed onto the end user, whether a residential or commercial use.
Mark R Thibeault
CRE Source, LLC
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Essex Junction, VT 05452
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Subject: RE: [VT Dev] H702 -- Workforce housing bill
Not debating the important issues raised, but just a friendly suggestion of logic: this latest comment/concept may reduce the cost of development to the developer,
but the ‘community infrastructure’ to be paid for by the community can be seen as just a different type of subsidy or cost shift.
Perhaps these very real and essential costs should be shared in some fashion, since both housing and community need each other, and neither can exist successfully
without the other.
LK
Lee A. Krohn, AICP
Senior Planner
Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission
110 West Canal Street, Suite 202
Winooski, VT 05404
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Subject: Re: [VT Dev] H702 -- Workforce housing bill
Hi All,
It’s great to have input for our legislators on this important initiative. Our ACEDC board set this idea in motion, and we can expect a lot of discussion leading inevitably to some kind of compromise. Our first objective is to make sure
legislators know that workforce housing is an serious issue, so anyone who can speak out should be encouraged to do so.
I have attached a one-pager that reflects my personal perspective and not necessarily ACEDC’s consensus opinion. What I took away from meeting with developers is that:
* Communities need to identify suitable sites for various housing development options that meet local zoning regs.
* The land must be made available for development with NO additional permitting costs.
* The ‘community infrastructure’ (roads, sidewalks, water, sewer, stormwater, etc.) must be paid for by ‘the community’, not the developer.
My personal thesis can be summed up this way:
Workforce housing is made affordable not by income subsidies or cost shifts, but by
reducing the cost of development.
If we can’t do that, I think we will still have a major problem.
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