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Sandy officials lay out housing production strategy; wastewater moratorium identified as central barrier
Summary
City staff and consultants presented a draft Housing Production Strategy (HPS), emphasizing that wastewater capacity and a roughly $200 million funding gap are the main constraints to meeting the state housing target of about 2,400 units over 20 years.
City of Sandy staff and consultants presented a draft Housing Production Strategy at a joint council–planning commission workshop, emphasizing that the city’s wastewater capacity limits are the primary constraint on meeting the state-mandated housing goals.
Tim Wood, a consultant with FCS Group who led the presentation, said the HPS is “really around strategies that can help Sandy’s housing economy grow effectively” and described the document as a menu of the strategies the city could pursue. He told elected officials the strategy list — organized around zoning, financial incentives, tax tools, land partnerships and custom options — will be the meat of the final HPS.
The presentation framed the HPS as a response to the housing capacity analysis (HCA) the city completed earlier; that analysis estimates Sandy needs roughly 2,400 new dwelling units over the next 20 years, a figure Wood called…
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