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Lawmakers preview bill to map and prioritize ‘workforce housing zones’ near job centers
Summary
Authors of H.253 described a proposal to map job concentrations and target infrastructure and housing resources to the areas closest to employment, arguing the approach could concentrate development near transit and utilities while reducing sprawl.
Rebecca Holcomb, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Kate Lally of the House Transportation Committee presented H.253, a bill that would create a mapping-driven process to identify ‘‘workforce housing zones’’ centered on local job concentrations.
The pair told the House Committee on General & Housing that the idea is to “develop housing near jobs” to concentrate demand where municipal infrastructure for transportation, wastewater and water already exists, reduce vehicle miles traveled and slow sprawl. “To develop housing near jobs gives you an opportunity to concentrate housing where it's needed most,” Holcomb said.
The bill would ask state agencies to map census tracts by job counts and draw concentric…
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