(See related "Deed-restrictions don't work today" local news here)
John Colson:
"In Silt, town planner Janet Aluise said the town already has issued five building permits this year for:
• Construction of a new 7,600-square-foot library next to Town Hall
• Remodeling the basement of an existing home
• Building a new Dollar General store on Main Street
• Construction of a duplex being built by Habitat for Humanity. The project warrants two permits, Aluise said, so the property owners can pull a certificate of occupancy if one side of the duplex is finished earlier than the other.
In 2011, Aluise said, the town also issued five residential building permits, although they were for homes that are just now being built. She said the town also issued a double permit for a Habitat for Humanity duplex in 2011.
Five building permits also were issued by Silt for 2010, all for single family homes, and two single-family home permits were issued in 2009, Aluise reported.
“We were used to at least 40 units a year,” Aluise said of the era prior to the recession, “and in a good year we might have 100. This year, five is good...” (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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All deed restricting and all so-called affordable housing regs should be wiped out completely.
In their place, give economic incentives to builders and developers to go in certain directions that might suit the land or area and locale they're building in.
Worst thing to happen to construction was this so-called affordable housing movement. Even pre-recession, it was the crippling factor for developments. We're so saturated up and down the corridor with those homes now that will take a decade or more in great economic times to sell; we're under water.
Eliminate all deed restricted development and instead invite construction business to be profitable.
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