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Housing emerges as central issue at Effingham steering committee meeting
Summary
At an Effingham steering committee meeting on the comprehensive plan, residents and stakeholders spent the bulk of the session focused on housing — debating whether to use incentives, public‑private partnerships, rezoning, or land swaps to expand supply amid high lot and infrastructure costs.
Steering committee members and residents in Effingham spent more than an hour of a standing committee meeting debating how to address a tight local housing market, identifying land prices, limited contractor capacity and infrastructure costs as the top constraints.
The committee reviewed recent focus‑group findings and draft vision goals, then turned quickly to housing. "Municipal growth should be encouraged to increase local tax base and provide for local employment opportunities," Speaker 2 read from the legacy goals and said those principles helped shape the draft vision; participants argued housing must be central if the city hopes to realize those goals.
Speakers described…
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