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Commission weighs Ashland-style affordable-housing requirement for annexations
Summary
Staff described an Ashland ordinance requiring 25% of base-density be affordable in annexations and discussed delivery options, timing, and permanence; commissioners were asked to weigh how long affordability should be required.
Staff presented Ashland's model as an example that ties annexation approvals to guaranteed affordable units, explaining Ashland requires 25% of base density as affordable units and has a unit-crediting scale based on area median income tiers.
"They require 25% of the base density as affordable units," staff said, and noted Ashland's approach includes credits for deeper affordability levels and options for developers to build units or transfer land to an affordable-housing provider. Commissioners discussed the trade-offs of percentage thresholds and whether affordability covenants should be perpetual or time-limited (examples discussed ranged from 10–99 years).
