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Dorchester County adopts incentives aimed at boosting workforce housing
Summary
Council adopted an incentives ordinance (second reading) to encourage workforce housing by offering special-source revenue credits usable as infrastructure offsets; the policy sets affordability targets (60/80/100% AMI) and a 20% minimum of units per project to qualify, and it passed unanimously.
Dorchester County Council on Dec. 8 adopted an ordinance providing incentives intended to spur development and renovation of workforce-housing units across the county.
County Administrator Ward said the "multi-county industrial park" reference in the ordinance is a designation tool rather than a requirement to place housing physically inside an industrial park. "These will be residential locations with that designation, which affords us the opportunity to provide…
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