8/24/2023 0 Comments Housing master plan ithaca voiceMayor Myrick, who attended the meeting, said, “This proposal is an opportunity for those of us who claim to care about affordable housing but oppose large-scale subsidized housing.” He emphasized that the plan incentivizes affordable housing being built along side of, rather than sectioned off from, market-rate housing in the city. She said she hoped that putting the plan into circulation where more people would be able to weight in on it might yield more ideas. Lynn Truame, development planner for the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency indicated that nailing down the correct incentives had been the hardest part of assembling the plan. The opportunity to save a month or two or three, I think is really valuable to them.”Īt the meeting, it was brought up that some developers are already brushing up against the height requirements in Collegetown, and so that might also prove particularly valuable there.ġst Ward Alderperson Cynthia Brock expressed concern on this incentive, suggesting that if such an incentive had applied to, for instance, the now-canceled Trebloc site, it would have caused even more opposition from the public. “It’s not that it’s such an onerous process,” 2nd Ward Alderperson Ducson Nguyen later told the Voice, noting that this exemption only applied in areas where there is already design standards that provide guidance for developers on how a building should look. General consensus was that the site plan review incentive would be the most attractive.Ĥth Ward Alderperson Graham Kerslick said he was unsure about this incentive as site plan reviews often turn up problem points in a project, particularly on larger projects that are in the public eye. Murtagh said that he thought the incentives might appeal to developers who specialize in affordable housing, as the incentives for height and parking requirements would be well-suited to them, but he didn’t think it would draw private developers.
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