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Brighton council approves amendment removing two properties from affordable-housing fee-waiver agreement
Summary
City Council voted 8-0 to amend a 2017 agreement with the Brighton Housing Authority to remove two properties from an impact-fee reduction commitment while preserving affordability protections on Jessup Street units.
Brighton City Council voted 8-0 June 3 to approve an amendment that removes two Brighton Housing Authority properties from a 2017 fee-reduction agreement while keeping affordability requirements on units at Jessup Street.
The change updates a prior agreement that provided fee reductions for 16 affordable units across three properties and adjusts reporting and income-limit measures after project scope and financing changed.
City staff told council that asbestos abatement and other scope changes made it financially infeasible to add the originally planned number of units at the North Fifth Avenue and South Eighteenth Avenue properties. Sean Wyman, the city’s affordable housing coordinator, said the 2017 agreement "provided fee reductions for the construction of 16 new units across the 3 properties"…
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