TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL - File #: [18-0813]

• File #: [18-0813]
• Version: 2
• Type: Discussion Item
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/20/2018
• In control: Town Council
• On agenda: 10/10/2018
• Final action: 10/10/2018
• Title: Consider Authorizing the Transfer of Ownership of Town-Owned Land at 320 Lindsay Street and 506 Mitchell Lane in Support of the Northside Neighborhood Initiative and for the Creation of New Permanently Affordable Housing.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/10/2018	2	Town Council	adopted	Pass

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Consider Authorizing the Transfer of Ownership of Town-Owned Land at 320 Lindsay Street and 506 Mitchell Lane in Support of the Northside Neighborhood Initiative and for the Creation of New Permanently Affordable Housing.
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Staff:
Department:
Loryn Clark, Executive Director
Housing and Community
Judy Johnson, Operations Manager
Planning Department
Nate Broman-Fulks, Affordable Housing Manager
Housing and Community

Overview: As a partner in the Northside Neighborhood Initiative (NNI), and manager of the Northside Land Bank, Self-Help formally requested that the Town donate vacant parcels of Town-owned land on Lindsay Street and Mitchell Lane to Self-Help Ventures Fund to create permanently affordable housing opportunities.

Background
Northside Neighborhood Initiative partners Self-Help and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center have identified an opportunity to secure ownership of four cottages currently located at 109 Park Place, also known as the Grisham Cottages. The current owner of the cottages has offered to donate the four cottages to the Northside Lank Bank and pay for much of the removal and relocation costs before the end of October.

Self-Help, the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, and Town staff have worked together to identify potential sites in the Northside Neighborhood for relocation of these cottages. After a thorough analysis of potential sites over the last several months, outlined in the attached Staff Memorandum, the vacant Town-owned sites on Lindsay Street and Mitchell Lane and a Self-Help-owned site on Craig Street were the sites identified as candidates for the cottages to be moved to.

Self-Help, as manager of the Northside Land Bank, has formally requested that the Town of Chapel Hill donate to Self-Help the vacant parcels of Town-owned land located at 320 Lindsay Street and 506 Mitchell Lane to relocate three of the cottages for the creation of permanently affordable housing. Self-Help's long-term plan for the lots, as has ...