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Blue ribbon housing committee urges steps to add permanently below‑market units, recommends Sherburne land process
Summary
Portsmouth’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Affordable Housing reported progress including processes to move Sherburne School land toward housing partnerships, recommended Gateway Neighborhood Overlay zoning, and cited current and proposed projects that would add permanently below-market units.
Councilors presented the Blue Ribbon Committee’s year-end report on affordable housing on Dec. 22, describing a multi-year effort to identify city-owned and private sites, recommend zoning changes and create financing tools to produce permanently below‑market housing.
Councilor Taber summarized the committee’s work: the group met 25 times with additional subgroups and recommended a process for…
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