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Oro Valley residents and planners weigh land trusts, annexation and zoning changes to expand housing options
Summary
At a town working-group meeting on Oro Valley's 10-year housing plan, participants proposed land trusts, annexation of state trust land, incentives for 'middle housing,' manufactured-home models and shared-ownership as potential ways to increase housing variety while maintaining local character.
Participants and staff discussed a range of policy tools to expand housing variety without necessarily relying on traditional subsidized rental programs. Hal described one option in detail: "A land trust basically is an organization, a nonprofit that acquires land, and then builds on it and sells homes on that land only for the cost of the home, not for the cost of the land," which can reduce the purchase price by removing land cost from the sale price.
Several speakers raised annexation of nearby state trust land (north and west of the…
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