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Courtesy Community Housing Resource Inc.
An artist rendition of a proposed mixed-use housing development on the corner of Route 6 and Race Point Road. |
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New development aims to create community housing
By Pru Sowers
Banner Staff
PROVINCETOWN — A new housing development that would produce 28 affordable and median-income apartments received its first public airing last week.
Members of the planning board held site plan reviews on the project, which stretches over 19, 35 and 43 Race Point Road near the corner of Route 6. The commercial and residential development on five acres is being built by Ted Malone, owner and president of Community Housing Resources Inc., a local for-profit affordable housing developer.
The planning board gave final approval to a revised site plan for the commercial portion of the project at 43 Race Point Road, a cluster of commercial buildings that house Gaskill’s Nursery, Connie’s Bakery, Nelson’s Bait & Tackle and Cosmos Catering, among others. Malone had previously changed the traffic pattern on the property and constructed a studio building in a new location.
The planning board also held a public hearing on the residential portion of the project, which abuts Stearns Road. Of 38 proposed total units, 28 would be targeted towards affordable and median-income individuals and families. Ann Howard, who chaired last week’s planning board meeting, said some residents in the area were concerned about adding 38 apartments to a neighborhood that is already congested.
“The neighbors were saying ‘when is this going to stop?’ They don’t want all the density. It’s a pretty tight neighborhood,” Howard said.
The site plan review on the residential portion of the project was continued until Malone could get approval from the fire department and department of public works for proposed roads and sewer connections. In addition, the project will need a special permit from the zoning board of appeals for having a density above six units per lot, as well as scale calculation relief for one of the buildings.
Malone purchased the property approximately five years ago. He is proposing to build 20 rental apartments between one and four bedrooms on one portion of the property. Forty percent of those units will be rented to people qualifying under median income guidelines and 60 percent to those qualifying under affordable income guidelines. The 20 units will be clustered in seven buildings.
Another 15 two- and three-bedroom condominiums are proposed for home ownership, with five sold to people qualifying under affordable income guidelines and the remaining 10 condos sold at market rate. The ownership apartments will be clustered in six buildings with underground parking.
A three-unit parcel on Stearns Road will have two one-bedroom and one two-bedroom unit that Malone may rent or sell to members of the Provincetown Police Dept.
“We’ve had preliminary conversations on how to make that work financially,” he said. “There are several positions in the police department that are unfilled because they can’t find housing.”
Malone said construction on the three-unit parcel could begin at the end of this year because the necessary town approvals have been received. Construction on the ownership condos could begin approximately a year from now if zoning and planning board approvals are received. Malone is looking for state and federal funding for the rental units, which makes a construction start date uncertain.
“We’ve been planning for all this time how to get affordable housing over there. About 74 percent of the development is community housing,” Malone said.
psowers@provincetownbanner.com
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