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Planning commission tables Ordinance 5-62 on housing affordability for further drafting
Summary
Harrisville Planning Commission on April 9 moved to table proposed Ordinance 5-62 (housing affordability) after commissioners and staff discussed design standards, affordability targets tied to House Bill 37, and implementation details including deed restrictions, first-right provisions and minimum acreage thresholds.
HARRISVILLE, April 9, 2025 — The Harrisville Planning Commission voted to table Ordinance 5-62, the city\'s proposed housing-affordability ordinance, after an extended discussion about how to define affordability, what design standards the city should require, and how to balance developer viability with the ordinance\'s pricing limits.
Commissioners and staff said they want the ordinance to use the affordability definition in House Bill 37 (area median income for the county), but disagreed about how many units in a project should be deed-restricted at specific AMI bands. Commissioners asked staff to return with recommended thresholds and clearer, implementable code language before the commission forwards a recommendation to city council.
Why it matters: Ordinance 5-62 would create a local mechanism to produce…
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