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Legislature approves three municipal grants from housing infrastructure program, seeks contingent funding to cover shortfall
Summary
Tompkins County’s Housing Affordability and Supportive Infrastructure Grant (HESIG) program will fund three municipal planning projects — Ithaca ADU designs, Danby sewer planning, and a Dryden feasibility study — with a contingent fund request to cover a $9,900 gap so all three can proceed together.
The Housing and Economic Development Committee unanimously approved three grant awards from the county’s Housing Affordability and Supportive Infrastructure Grant program on July 16, backing planning work in the City of Ithaca, the Town of Danby and the Town of Dryden and asking the legislature to consider a $9,900 contingent transfer so all three awards can be funded this year.
Why it matters: County planning staff and applicants argued the HESIG awards leverage small county grants to win much larger state and federal infrastructure funding and to advance projects that can create housing capacity. Committee members said the program has often been underspent since its 2019 start and recommended treating it as an ongoing, active pipeline rather than an accumulating balance.
The three awards approved by the committee are: - City of Ithaca — $10,000 to support hiring a consultant to develop preapproved accessory dwelling unit (ADU) designs, which the city recently authorized…
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