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DRAFT Affordable Housing Partnership Meeting Minutes for April 28, 2004 Attendees: Jacque Davison Ed Grant Bob Bicknell Winifred McGowan Paul Sodano Pat Nelson Gerri Fouter Florence Baturin Mary Haskell Martha Wood Inky MacDougall Sherry Gordon Dan Smith Bob Bicknell David Williams Tom Hardin Bill Kennedy Arthur Katz Harriet Cohen Donald Graham David Williams Iris Wheaton Karl Kasdorf Robert Cohen Ken Kreutziger Bob Bicknell chaired the meeting; Harriet Cohen took the minutes. The meeting was called to order at 6:08 pm. 1. Follow up meeting with Community Builders There was a follow up meeting to the discussion of the Franklin School apartments which occurred at the ????? last meeting. Attendees were Bob Bicknell, Dawn McKenna, Bill Kennedy, Adam Shyevitch, and . No tenants were present. There was some critical comment about Community Builders and the way they have run the property. Community Builders are going to provide some options to the town for moving forward. 2. Hear Reports from Sub-committees. Zoning By-Law Changes (Mary Haskell). Discussed Mr. Herr’s proposal for inclusionary zoning. He proposed an inclusionary requirement that says that any development of 3 or more units would have to provide assurances of affordability or related community benefit. He is proposing an affordability equivalent unit, such that in smaller developments (3 to 5 units) that one of the units would sell for slightly less than they would otherwise, in order to make up for the fact that an affordable unit was not being provided. See Attachment 1 for Mr. Herr’s proposal. The next meeting is Thursday, May 20 at 1 pm at Pat Nelson’s conference room. The main item on the agenda is to discuss adaptive re-use overlay districts. HOME Consortium (Bob Bicknell for David Burns): there was a meeting with a representative of the HOME Consortium, who agreed to provide some information as to the types of projects that would qualify for HOME funding support. See Attachment 2 for a memo from David describing the meeting. Housing Trust (Florence Baturin): Pat Nelson has been working on the 501 (3) (c) incorporation. She has recruited a colleague to assist her with the work. Land Use (Iris Wheaton) Iris has been reviewing the available information. She is asking for some direction for the committee. The committee provided some ideas and Iris will go back to the drawing board. Met State / Rangeway (Ken Kreutziger): Ken asked for volunteers to make calls to Town Meeting members to ask the meeting members several questions, first, whether the meeting member needs more information about the Avalon proposal for Met State. Talking points are included with the packet Ken is handing out and the question may be answered in that information. If the questions can’t be answered from that information, note that on the Inclusionary Zoning (U) Page 1