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Board backs two workforce-housing tax-credit support resolutions and approves CDBG amendment for Dow’s project
Summary
The Linn County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved two letters/resolutions of support for workforce housing tax-credit applications and authorized an amendment shifting $8,276 in CDBG-DR project-delivery funds for the Dow's Pocket Neighborhood housing project to cover extended administration costs.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors on April 28 voted to approve local resolutions of support for two workforce-housing tax-credit applications and approved an amendment to a Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery contract to increase project-delivery funding for the Dow’s Pocket Neighborhood housing project.
Charlie Nichols of Linn County Planning and Development told the board the state’s workforce housing tax-credit program is competitive and requires a local resolution of support and a local match. Nichols described two pending applications: a multifamily application referenced as applicant “02/1940” seeking to build 21 market-rate loft-style rental units, and a single-family application filed by an entity referenced in the record as “2,040 building concepts” seeking 15 single-family residential units. Nichols said the county has already approved a 10‑year tax abatement that serves as the local match.
Nichols summarized program limits cited in the application guidance: a per-unit construction cost cap of $230,000 for multifamily units and $310,000 for single-family units; those caps do not include land, permits, legal or furnishing costs. Nichols said actual per-unit total costs are roughly $300,000 for multifamily and about $400,000 for single-family when non-construction costs are included.
After questions, the board approved a resolution of support for the multifamily application and a separate resolution of support for the single-family application. The board did not commit county funds beyond the previously approved tax abatement local match.
The board also approved an amendment to a CDBG disaster-recovery contract for the Dow’s Pocket Neighborhood project to shift $8,276 into project-delivery (administration) funds. Nichols said subsurface rock encountered at the Dow site required blasting, which lengthened construction and increased administration time; the amendment reallocated existing grant funds rather than adding new dollars.
All three measures were approved by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript.
