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Council begins development of a Truckee‑specific housing incentive (density bonus) program; staff seeks high‑level direction
Summary
The council held a workshop on creation of a Town of Truckee housing incentive program to encourage deed‑restricted workforce housing, seeking direction on target AMI levels, project types, ministerial vs. discretionary review and funding.
The Town Council on June 10 held an extended workshop to provide early policy direction on a proposed Truckee housing incentive program — sometimes described as a town‑specific density bonus or housing incentive package — intended to encourage creation of workforce and deed‑restricted housing.
What staff proposed
Planning staff presented three principal approaches for where program rules and incentives could live: (1) a new, standalone chapter in the municipal code that would create a clear “menu” of concessions and incentives for qualifying projects; (2) folding the town program into the existing plan‑development pathway (a discretionary planning commission review process that allows negotiated concessions); or (3) embedding the program as a local variant inside the chapter that implements the State Density Bonus Law so projects that meet the town’s deed‑restriction criteria can request the same…
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