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Goal: A healthier regional balance of affordable housing in
each community in the greater Burlington region, proximate to jobs and affording
mobility and choice to low income residents, is achieved.
Five-Year Focus:
- Assist in the development of a workforce ho suburban communities.
- Develop new housing for disabled persons and others with special needs in
all Chittenden County communities.
- Urge the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) to conduct an analysis of the potential legal implications
of zoning and permitting laws and procedures in Chittenden County,
especially with regard to possible disparate impacts on protected classes
under state and federal fair housing law.
- Support the conducting of a Chittenden County focused fair housing audit
of business practices to determine the degree and extent of fair housing law
violations perpetrated against individuals in several key protected classes.
- Urge other municipalities to create housing rehabilitation programs for
maintaining their stock of older rental housing.
- Encourage the CCRPC to promote the concept of municipal housing trust
funds as a way to raise funds for low and moderate-income homeownership.
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Urge the CCRPC to
deny any municipal development plan that fails to include an affordable housing
provision with specific production goals and urge every municipality to conduct
a build-out analysis for future housing development.
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Urge CCRPC to facilitate
voluntary "core compact" whose member communities agree to take
certain threshold measures, e.g., create a housing trust fund, increase zoning
density, waive impact fees, or reserve infrastructure capacity to encourage
affordable housing development, and to have no residential phasing.
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Urge
CCRPC to facilitate regional cooperation on issues of water and sewer as a means
of developing more affordable housing in communities without adequate
infrastructure capacity.
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Urge CCRPC to assist all 18-member communities with
identifying land appropriate for new housing development and suggesting zoning
changes that encourage the development of more affordable housing.
- Encourage the
Vermont State Housing Authority (VSHA) to increase - or, at a minimum, not
to reduce - the number of Section 8 vouchers in Chittenden County.
Page last updated May 13, 2003
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