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Consultants outline housing production strategy for West Linn; council asks for more data on SDCs and tax tools
Summary
Consultants presented a draft housing production strategy recommending zoning incentives, SDC adjustments, tax tools (TIF, CET), land acquisition and targeted tax abatements; council and planning commissioners asked for modeling of SDC and CET impacts and public outreach before adoption.
Consultants for West Linn presented a draft Housing Production Strategy (HPS) at the Nov. 18 joint meeting with the Planning Commission, proposing a focused set of implementable strategies to support production of smaller and affordable housing over a six-year period. Matt Hasty, leading the consultant team, said the plan narrows a long list of options to those the city can reasonably implement and highlighted near- and medium-term steps including rezoning parcels for higher density, incentives for smaller-unit development, and zoning bonuses for workforce and affordable housing.
The consultants recommended several financial tools to unlock development capacity: targeted reductions or deferrals of systems…
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