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Council directs staff to return with MFTE code changes to advance Eaton Park workforce housing
Summary
The Battle Ground City Council on July 21 asked staff to draft code amendments to add the Eaton Park parcel to the city's MFTE residential target areas and to enable a 12-year multifamily tax exemption option requiring a 20 percent affordable set-aside.
The Battle Ground City Council on July 21 asked staff to return with ordinances to (a) add the Eaton Park parcel to the city's multifamily tax exemption (MFTE) residential target areas and (b) allow a 12-year MFTE option that would require a 20 percent affordable set-aside for projects that use that term.
The direction came after a work-session presentation on the MFTE program by city planner Kristen and a project briefing from representatives of Principal Properties, who described Eaton Park as a workforce housing development that would set aside 20 percent of units for households at 80 percent of area median income for 12 years.
The council's instruction was procedural: staff was asked to draft amendments to the Battleground Municipal Code and return them for public hearings and formal council action. No final ordinance was adopted at the July 21 meeting.
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