04-26-2024, 10:16 AM
(04-25-2024, 05:55 PM)ac3r Wrote: It says they had been holding on to it for a potential community centre or library branch, which makes sense since the library branch in the area is just a small one in the nearby high school and the community centre is pretty small. I guess the plans for either of those haven't been deemed priority, so rather than sit on the land they just decided to donate it.
60 units does seem ridiculously low, though, but I guess that's complicated by the fact it would be Habitat for Humanity that would be behind the project. I guess it's easier for the city to just hand the land over to them, rather than develop and manage their own social/community housing projects. Habitat for Humanity would be limited by available funds and as a non-profit NGO they don't exactly have a lot of those.
They said it would be 63 units at a minimum, and a number of those units will have 2 or 3 bedrooms, so those naturally take up more space than 1-bedroom units. So that's likely part of it.