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Palm Coast council urged to link incentives to enforceable housing affordability
Summary
Speakers at the May 5 Palm Coast City Council meeting urged the council to tie incentives such as impact-fee assistance and density bonuses to enforceable affordability requirements after a housing needs assessment showed many local households are cost-burdened.
Carla Amaral, vice chair of the City of Palm Coast Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, told the council the city’s Housing Needs Assessment shows a workforce housing problem: nearly half of households earn at or below the area median income while the median home price tops $350,000, she said. Amaral urged the council to stop relying on incentives alone and to require that any public dollars used to support development deliver a measurable affordability outcome.
“Impact fee deferrals, density…
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