The draft of the Comp Plan addresses only the current BPAS allocations available for affordable housing that are a result of the 300 allocations the Village received from the state in 2018, referred to as “early out” allocations.

The state restricted those allocations to multifamily rental units with on-site management. Tenants would be required to evacuate early (along with transient visitors). Only 8 of the 300 allocations have been awarded since 2018.

Is this really what the Village needs?  At the Comp Plan workshop last week, a resident was applauded when he insisted that we need to promote single family ownership units occupied by families, long term.

Perhaps we should go back to the state and request that some of the multi-family rental restrictions be removed for at least some of the 300 units.  Don’t we pay our lobbyists to assist with state issues?