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Skagway committee sets residency floor, backs points-based selection for community land trust
Summary
The Health, Education & Welfare Committee endorsed a working residency threshold and a points-based selection framework for a proposed community land trust that would use roughly 16 Garden City lots to create perpetually affordable homeownership, while leaving income caps and several technical rules to be defined in the CLT feasibility study.
Chair Waddell convened the Health, Education & Welfare Committee on Aug. 12 to continue work on the community land trust (CLT) homebuyer selection criteria, focusing on residency and income-eligibility rules and the mechanics of a selection process.
The committee agreed on a working residency threshold intended to prevent immediate applicants who move to town solely to obtain a lot: applicants must be registered voters and demonstrate they have established residency in Skagway (the working minimum discussed was seven months of residence before applying). "You have to move here, live here 7 months to establish residency," Chair Waddell said as the committee agreed to reword a confusing sentence from an earlier draft.
Why it matters: those residency rules will shape who is eligible for the CLT’s roughly 16 Garden City lots, each described in the discussion as about 3,000 square feet, and will…
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