Tag: Housing
Contamination concerns threaten mayor’s housing plan for city parking lot
Council committee voted 11-4 to abandon plans to explore housing on the coal tar–contaminated site.
Council committee backs full fee exemption for affordable housing project
Final approval of the development charge waiver will be considered by council later this month.
The Long US Goodbye to New Gas Connections and the Legal Tools States Are Using to Get There
Gas bans in new buildings moved from obscure municipal policy to national legal conflict in a remarkably short period of time. For most of the past decade, city ordinances limiting or prohibiting new natural gas hookups were treated as a local matter tied to building codes, air quality, and long … [continued]
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In the first winter after Traverse City’s ‘no camping’ ordinance, people endure winter out of view
After a no-camping ordinance cleared Traverse City’s largest homeless encampment, people are surviving winter out of view — sleeping wherever they can as shelters reach capacity.
Dispute over $1.3M development charge clouds affordable housing project
A committee will hear an appeal over whether a non-profit qualifies for a full fee exemption.