Local Housing
Partnership
9:00 a.m.
Hazel, and Teri Nezbeth.
Members absent: Eileen
Kennedy (unexcused)
Others: Ted Malone, Maxine Notaro, Pam Parmakia,
and
Doug Taylor
The
meeting was called to order at 9:00
a.m.
AGENDA:
Motion: A motion was made, seconded and agreed to
unanimously, to skip directly to the lottery selection process.
Ted
Malone and Pam Parmakia had hand-outs to give to the Partnership. They had studied other programs and
attempted to make up permanent policies.
They felt these new regulations might be added to the current rulings.
The
hand-outs were:
-
Policy
Recommendations for Administration of Affordable Housing Permits by
Provincetown Local Housing Partnership. (4 pages)
-
Initial
Income Certification
-
Application
for Affordable Home Ownership Lottery
-
34-36
Conwell Street – Affordable & Market Rate Homes
Policy
Recommendations for Administration of Affordable Housing Permits by
Provincetown Local Housing Partnership.
This hand-out spawned the most discussion, i.e., who could qualify for a 2 bedroom if they were a single person (someone with a college age son who might come home for the summer?), and a myriad of other plausible scenarios.
Also, this hand-out had 15 rules that have been basically based on the 40B rules published by the state. At this point Ted Malone went over rule by rule and how it might be interpreted and what the exemptions might be. For example: Eligibility refers to 1st time home buyers who are people who haven’t owned a home for over 3 years, i.e. a displaced homemaker (from divorce) or a household of over 55 year olds.
Ted also told the group that the Town is producing a whole lot of single units because that is the projected need of affordable housing in the Town. Also, household numbers are not static. People divorce, acquire children and/or spouses, etc.
The discussion also touched on “how long for occupancy?” Tim Hazel pointed out that sometimes people had to leave Town for economic reasons, i.e., in search of jobs in warmer climes since our winter economy is “not thriving.” Then, as a necessity, they have to rent out their condos. The big question – as in most of the restrictions – is – who polices this? Doug Taylor thought it would fall to him but wondered about the manpower needed for this task.
Rental
of the condo would probably be permissible but only by review and permission by
LHP. Can rental take place if
necessary? It was thought that it
probably would have to be a hardship case.
Ted
said he would also like a clear policy on who qualifies for the number of
bedrooms. Tim Hazel felt that the
current guidelines on the number of bedrooms is too restrictive, i.e., what
about people who would like an extra bedroom as an office or perhaps an
occasional visitor. He also would like
the policy on art studios clarified.
Then
Pam Parmakia entered the discussion and explained the enormous record keeping
dealing with income certification. She
deals most with the Ann Page complex and all her findings have to be verified
by a 3rd party.
Rules
also dictate that people can’t pay more than 50% of purchase price in
cash.
Going
on further it was stated that condo fees have to be equitable – affordable and
market-rate should coincide. Also, most
banks do not want co-signers.
The
presentation lasted for over one hour.
Review and update on
affordable housing projects
Ted
Malone presented this update which began at about 10:00 a.m. There are 18 units – 5 rental – 13 ownership
coming on line soon. (The rentals will
be controlled by the Fine Art Works Center (FAWC). Completion of phase 1 is projected to be completed by late fall
or early winter. There were 24 bedrooms
on the property originally. Phase 2
will have a larger percentage of affordable.
It
was decided that the next meeting may be a work session on standardization.
Doug
Taylor felt that the group needs a boiler-plate form with just a change of name
so that you could pull it up on the computer and go.
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE LOCAL HOUSING
PARTNERSHIP WILL TAKE PLACE ON MAY 20TH AT 9:00 A.M.
Motion: Teri Nezbeth made a motion to approve the
minutes of the January, February, and March 2005 meetings. Tim Hazel seconded the motion and it was
approved unanimously by the Partnership.
Motion: Scott Campbell made a motion to adjourn the
meeting at 10:20 a.m. Teri Nezbeth
seconded the motion and everyone enthusiastically agreed.
Respectfully submitted,
Evelyn Gaudiano
Approved by ____________________________on ______________, 2005.