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Affordable housing committee schedules May public meeting, flags parking and financing as key concerns
Summary
The New Canaan Affordable Housing Committee set a late-May public meeting to show site schematics and gather input, while members debated how parking structures should be financed and whether bundling parking with residential costs could affect access to state subsidies and tax credits.
The New Canaan Affordable Housing Committee on April 13 agreed to hold a public meeting in the week of May 18 to present high-level schematics for several candidate sites and gather resident feedback on trade-offs such as building scale, traffic and green space.
A project subcommittee member summarized the work done so far: “We have drawings. We have spent quite a bit of time talking about the pros and cons of each of the development schemes that Amanda Emma has given us, and we've gone so far as to put them into a comparison chart,” the committee member said, describing a chart intended to help the public evaluate competing options.
The nut of the discussion centered on financing. The committee chair outlined four primary funding sources to make a project feasible:…
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