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Town of Lexington <br /> Community Preservation Plan <br /> Community Housing <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> Lexington's efforts to maintain an economically diverse community are evidenced by actions <br /> spanning many years. The Lexington Housing Authority (LHA), established in 1969 pursuant to <br /> Chapter 121B of the Mass. General Laws, now provides 338 units for low- income individuals <br /> and families, including veterans, the elderly and the disabled. LHA operates three apartment <br /> clusters (Greeley Village, Vynebrooke Village and Countryside Village), family scattered sites, <br /> and implements several other programs, including privately owned developments and voucher <br /> subsidy programs. The Lexington Housing Assistance Board(LexHAB), created by a special <br /> legislative act in 1983, now administers 72 housing units for persons of low, moderate and <br /> middle income. The Board of Selectmen created the Housing Partnership Board in 2003; its <br /> primary function is to advocate for housing for persons of low and moderate income (now <br /> generally referred to as "affordable housing"). <br /> The Town's housing goals have also been expressed in planning documents. The "(2020) Town- <br /> Wide Vision Statement,"written in year 2000, referred not only to "preserving and maintaining <br /> a sense of community that includes [the Town's] historic tradition, its public and private open <br /> spaces, and its public support for civic life,"but also to "striv[ing]... to maintain a range of <br /> affordability." The "Land Use" summary of the 2002 Comprehensive Plan identified "Housing <br /> to support the social and economic diversity of Lexington" as the first of the "Goals and <br /> Actions" "flow[ing] from the other elements of the Comprehensive Plan." (Executive Summary <br /> at IV.) More recently, the 2014 Lexington Housing Production Plan prepared for the Town of <br /> Lexington by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council reiterated the need for additional <br /> affordable housing in Lexington. <br /> Massachusetts General Law Chapter 40B, enacted in 1969, mandates that each municipality have <br /> a minimum of 10% of its housing stock meet certain requirements in order to avoid housing <br /> developments that do not conform to local zoning bylaws. With 11.11% of its housing units <br /> included on the "subsidized housing inventory" (SHI), Lexington is currently in compliance with <br /> the Chapter 40B standard. However, only about one-half of these units actually satisfy the <br /> regulatory affordability definition. This is explained by the fact that when 25% of the units in a <br /> rental development are deed-restricted as affordable, all units are counted in the SHI tabulation. <br /> This approach was adopted to encourage the creation of rental units. <br /> Compliance with 40B, alone, has not satisfied the community. Continuing efforts to create <br /> additional affordable units evidence this fact. The Town remains committed to the diversity goal <br /> expressed in the Vision Statement and the Comprehensive Plan. <br /> THE CURRENT SETTING <br /> 8 <br />
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