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Candidates Back Northpointe Workforce Housing, Stress Local Control and LMO Rewrite
Summary
At a League of Women Voters forum in Hilton Head Island, most council candidates voiced support for the Northpointe workforce housing project and pushed for local regulation—urging a faster Land Management Ordinance rewrite, careful design and enforcement of short‑term rental rules. Alex Brown noted a $4 million housing fund.
Most candidates at a League of Women Voters forum in Hilton Head Island endorsed the proposed Northpointe workplace housing neighborhood as a step toward addressing the town’s workforce housing shortage, while stressing the need for local control, infrastructure planning and safeguards on design and stormwater.
Steve Desimone, one of the candidates who described the project in detail, said the site is “11 acres,” has “a 65 year lease term” and will include about “161 … two‑ and three‑bedroom units,” adding that roughly half the units would be aimed below 80 percent of area median income. “All that's gonna be built with no federal dollars,” he said, positioning Northpointe as a public‑private effort relying on grants and private investment.
Alex Brown, the incumbent Ward 1 representative, said the town has created a housing fund…
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