Jamestown planners review proposal for seven-parcel supportive housing project on Spring Street

Developers and project partners presented a plan to the Jamestown Planning Commission to build seven two-family houses on seven land-bank parcels near the intersection of Spring Street and Crossman Street, creating 14 one-bedroom apartments intended primarily for supportive-housing clients.

Project representatives said the submission is intended to strengthen a pending application to New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR). The presentation noted the team was “1 point away from getting funded” in the previous HCR round and aims to improve its competitiveness for upcoming HHAP and ESHI application windows and a resubmission in December.

The developers described the site as unusually steep: “each of these little lines here running north south on the page represents 1 foot in grade change,” and said the parcel sequence drops about 10 feet within the first 20 feet from the street. Because the parcels are in R‑2 zoning (two-family), the team proposed duplicating a two-family house type on each lot rather than pursue a use variance for…