Town Meeting Affordable Housing Funding Articles
Prescheduled for Tuesday, April 9.
Concord Town Moderator Carmin Reiss has announced that four high interest articles on affordable housing funding will be pre-scheduled to be the first business taken up at Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday, April 9th. Pre-scheduling ensures that the four articles, which are a package of recommendations made to the Select Board by its Affordable Housing Funding Committee, will be considered together in the same Meeting session. The four articles include:
- ARTICLE 23. APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
- ARTICLE 24. AUTHORIZATION TO ACCEPT M.G.L. c.44 ℥55C — MUNICIPAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND
- ARTICLE 25. AUTHORIZE SPECIAL LEGISLATION — REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAX FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
- ARTICLE 26. AUTHORIZE SPECIAL LEGISLATION — BUILDING PERMIT FEE SURCHARGE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Voters may learn more about these articles in the Public Hearing materials posted under each article under the Town Meeting tab on the Town’s website (www.concordma.gov), and in the Affordable Housing Funding Committee’s Preliminary Report of October 29, 2018, which also may be found on the Town’s website.