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Manufactured Home Strategy Update.
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Staff:
Department:
Loryn B. Clark, Executive Director
Housing and Community
Sarah Osmer Vi?as, Assistant Director
Nate Broman-Fulks, Affordable Housing Manager
Overview: Staff is providing an update on our Manufactured Home Strategy implementation and requesting Council direction on priorities for implementation.
Recommendation(s):
That the Council provide direction on priorities for continued implementation of our Manufactured Home Strategy.
Overview of our Manufactured Home Strategy
* In 2018, as development pressures increased for the northern part of Chapel Hill, the Town began creating a strategy to proactively engage residents and owners of the four manufactured home communities in Town to develop a relocation plan should future redevelopment occur on any of these sites.
* Our Manufactured Home Strategy includes four components:
o Engage manufactured home community residents, owners, potential developers, and neighbors to create proactive solutions.
o Develop a menu of housing options for the Council to consider if manufactured home residents get displaced.
o Identify potential sites for development of new affordable housing that meet key criteria (i.e. within the Chapel Hill/Carrboro School System, on a public transit line, existing access to water and sewer, walkable to services and amenities). These sites could assist with manufactured home relocation.
o Develop a coordinated plan to apply to any manufactured home community faced with redevelopment.
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Implementation Progress
Our progress is detailed in the attached report. Highlights include:
* Conducting extensive outreach and engagement with residents, owners, potential developers, and neighbors.
* Prioritizing three Town-owned sites for affordable housing development.
* Findings from the Resident Engagement Report were used to inform the applicant's resident relocation plan at 1200 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd (Tar Heel), which if app...
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