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Developers and realtors press Harrison County supervisors to loosen lot mandates and allow by-right development to ease housing shortage
Summary
Industry groups told the board that large minimum lot sizes, road standards and insurance costs are key drivers of housing unaffordability; presenters urged overlay/density zoning and by-right subdivision in designated growth corridors to lower costs and increase supply.
Speakers from the Gulf Coast Association of Realtors, Mississippi Home Builders Association and the Mississippi Developers Council urged the Harrison County Board of Supervisors to change zoning rules and planning processes to improve housing affordability.
Summer Newman, president of the Gulf Coast Association of Realtors, told the board "Housing affordability has reached a crisis point nationwide," and argued that county zoning decisions directly affect workers, contractors and local…
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