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Manassas Park outlines for-sale affordable-home program, plans lottery and 30-year covenants
Summary
City staff presented an implementation plan for affordable dwelling units (ADUs) and workforce dwelling units (WDUs) tied to development agreements, including a lottery-based applicant drawing, 30-year restrictive covenants to preserve affordability, an initial two-unit delivery in July and a web-based interest form launching in late January.
Manassas Park city staff on Jan. 14 outlined how the city will implement its affordable and workforce for-sale housing policy adopted last September, describing eligibility, application steps and resale controls.
Planner Yvette told the governing body that ADUs under the policy target households at or below 70% of area median income (AMI) and that affordability will be enforced by 30-year restrictive covenants. She said the policy applies where developers purchase city land and that negotiated agreements set the percentage of units designated as ADUs and WDUs. “Affordability will be maintained through restrictive covenants, with a control period of 30 years,” she said.
Staff described a staged rollout: a website and…
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