Local Housing Partnership
and
Provincetown Housing Authority
Judge Welsh Hearing Room
November 17, 2006
10:00 a.m.
Members
present: Arturo Alon, Scott Campbell, Tim Hazel,
and Melissa Jones.
Member
absent: Noah Taylor.
Others: Keith Bergman, Dave Krohn, Michele
Couture,
and Doug Taylor
Motion: Adjourn the previous meeting that had been
convened on November 8th.
Motion: Tim Hazel Seconded: Scott
Campbell Vote: 4-0-0.
The meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m.
Policy
and Procedures
As a result of the November 13, 2006 Special
Town Meeting, the procedure will be identical to the town meeting. Doug Taylor said that the LHP just adds the
article into the town’s by-laws. The by-law is now in effect from the date of
the posting. If the Attorney General
turns us down then we have to resubmit.
Doug, continuing, said - essentially what you
determine will be a deed restriction – the same as in a, b, and c. I think it should be the same….. they might
not be all one-bedroom. Tim felt that
the bedrooms should be variables. All
the rest should be boilerplate for clarity.
Tim asked, "can we get a boilerplate?" There should be at least a couple of
paragraphs that stay the same. The deed
restriction that you previously voted on should be the boilerplate. Tim said that the deed restriction should
have continuity and all be the same.
Michele came to the meeting to thank everyone
for all of the effort for getting this article through. A moratorium on all condos! It really got banged around a lot and it has
been an incredible roller coaster. It
was like a little article that could. A
lot of people didn’t think of the LHP as a force to be reckoned with. There's an article in the Cape Codder that
re-energizes the community. Please read
it. When no one was behind you
guys……. Tim said that when he was
looking for leadership. Michele stepped up to the plate. Michele got on the Manor case, too. Now she will work to try to promote
affordable housing. She has really
enjoyed the past couple of months.
Michele was thinking that this article is a bright, shiny thing and she
wonders how b and c will be implemented?
AJ said he would like the developers to decide
how to break it down. The developer
should be the person to determine the breakdown. Tim suggested that we do need to get the category 1 under one
umbrella and we do need to have all of them under the same guidelines. We should have information on building 1a
and break it down so that developers will have examples. By and large, we should come up with models
so that we can aid the developers and also encourage people to make
decisions.
Tim – in addition to having plans come to us
under this by-law, we have to be ready for people who may define
loopholes. AJ thought about making an
easier deed restriction and Doug feels that since the one we have is working,
don’t keep tinkering! Doug will e-mail
a copy of the deed restriction to AJ.
Melissa said that years ago there was a survey about how many people
needed housing and what their incomes were.
The most recent ones we have are confusing when lumped together. The amnesty one came out of the big one we
had one winter. UMASS assessment
report. Tim got an abbreviated one but
the big one is on line.
Who is going to be in charge of who gets into
the lottery? Tim said we need a person
in charge of affordable housing. He’s
been beating this drum for the last few years and feels he's talking to a
wall. The reason that it has been so
hard to figure out is because there are many lists and no one is in
charge. Tim – we’ve come up with the
money from the housing fund, etc. BUT
NO ONE IS THE POINT PERSON!
Michelle said that this has come up before. You’re right. There is going to have to have a point person. We need to have someone to guide people from
point A to point Z. We were calling it
an affordable housing specialist. Doug
T said whether it’s a housing consultant – or whatever – we need to push this
through. Tim said it has to be user
friendly and without that we have
nothing.
Dave Krohn who has decided that he's a developer
was in the audience and said he would be able to coordinate all of this. (A few meetings ago this same group thought
that Patrick Manning was a very knowledgeable person in this area.) Scott said if the owners of a motel want to
have a change of use - if they’re just going to condo it - it used to be change
of use going before the ZBA only - now
it goes into an application. Doug
suggested that the LHP may have to start having meetings twice a month. There are currently 42 properties that may
fall under these new guidelines.
Tim says we must have criteria and not build 3
mega condos and 2 lousy condos in the basement to fulfill the affordable
component of the by-law. We can look at
the square footage and/or other related criteria.
Michele would like to suggest that next week you
guys might pull together a meeting to review your by-law and then it can be
presented to the planning board. We
should tighten things up a little bit.
The planning board is something you have to go through.
Planning has a meeting on December 20th. It was decided that LHP would next meet on
Tuesday afternoon at 5:00p. There was
already a seed fund to hire a person and that money was frittered away with
John Ryan. The meeting on Tuesday,
November 21st will be entitled "A Workshop on Article 12."
Any
other business that shall properly come before the board
At this point in the meeting Dave Krohn was
invited to present his project. He gave
everyone an overview and supplied everyone with a professional hand-out. Said he only wanted it regarded as an
informational session. "He has a
project and he'd like advice."
Dave Krohn said his plan is preliminary and this
is a question and answer feedback kind of thing. Doug said he's not to get too detailed. He then gave his background and the history of purchasing the
tennis club and he wants to become a part of the community. So what he has is 4.1 acres of property that
has been a tennis club since 1947 and he would like to build condos for market
rate and for workforce; the breakdown would be
50% workforce and 50% condos.
And he hopes it creates some kind of model that will help solve the
problem of affordable housing. Overall
Tim thinks you’re heading in the right direction. What are some of the overriding concerns? "It’s a fiduciary exercise," said
Dave.
All units will be for ownership. He was advised to go before Planning and ask
about the height limitations since that was one of his questions. Tim would say if you are going to do this it
would be helpful if you had our support.
Dave continued, "There is not a lot of
money to be made in tennis." Krohn
is living in the chapel now. We’re
hiring a tennis pro and going for a beer and wine license, etc. He has big plans and wants to make it a
little clubby. Maxine said this is the
application form and then there is what you have to supply. And there’s a sheet that asks for what the
market ones are – identify all plans – and it’s spelled out for this in conservation, zoning, planning, health –
there are plans for everything. His
angst is that it takes too much time and he wants to start in February.
Public
Statements
There were none.
Minutes
Motion: Approve the minutes of the January 20th,
July 21st, and September 15th meetings as written.
Motion: Tim Hazel Seconded: Scott
Campbell Vote: 3-0-1 ab (MJ)
Adjournment
happened at 11:25 a.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Evelyn Gaudiano
Approved by ____________________________on
______________, 2006.
Arturo Alon,
Chair