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Town manager says CHIP could unlock 60–80 homes on town-owned land but small towns need technical assistance
Summary
Chester Town Manager Julie Hans told the committee that her town’s 139-acre parcel could support roughly 60–80 homes but lacks the technical staff and financing tools needed to deliver development; she urged the committee to preserve municipal technical assistance and flexible municipal uses of the CHIP program.
Julie Hans, town manager of the Town of Chester, told the House General & Housing Committee that a CHIP-style tool could make a town-owned site feasible for housing but that small municipalities lack in-house engineering, legal and permitting capacity to use the program without help.
"Chester is a town of about 3,200 people," Hans said. "This land is town owned . . . we're finding through that study that this land is very promising for a potential development of approximately 60 to 80 homes, primarily multifamily…
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