Affordable Housing & Impact Fees

May 23, 2007 by · Leave a Comment 

Seemingly, the county has no understanding of the impact fees.  Although so much lip service is given to the issue of affordable housing, the county is yet again considering raising impact fees.  Common sense would indicate that higher impact fees would greatly impact the availability of affordable housing.  Higher impact fees are easily absorbed by [...]

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Affordable Housing and Land Trusts

October 4, 2006 by · Leave a Comment 

As the cost of housing in Floria has risen at dramatically, the median income in Florida has remained relatively flat creating a situation were many of lower paid professionals can no longer afford to live in the areas where they work.  The use of Community Land Trusts is one effect tool that may provide a [...]

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Affordable Housing

September 15, 2006 by · Leave a Comment 

In an effort to create much needed affordable housing in Sarasota, the city commissioners voted 3-2 to approve a land-use change that would allow a developer to build a 400 unit condominium in the Alta Vista neighborhood along School Avenue. Such affordable housing is badly needed in Sarasota as businesses and county government are having [...]

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