Park City working on plan to put affordable housing on Mine Bench site

Park Metropolis Council users have directed staffers to continue on working on a approach to create very affordable housing on a site 1 ½ miles south of Town Corridor on Marsac Avenue.

Park City has a target to add 800 reasonably priced units by 2026 and the housing on the town-owned Mine Bench house would be for personnel who do the job in the area.

Staffers are recommending the metropolis release a ask for for proposals (RFP) to uncover fascinated entities to take part in a community-personal partnership to construct the undertaking. They are proposing a multi-spouse and children rental advancement, Housing Advancement Supervisor Jason Glidden stated at a May 12 meeting.

“We really do not feel this is a position the place we ought to have a marketplace charge,” Glidden said of the prospective growth, which would be found on the southern aspect of the 29-acre internet site.

A team report says the job could be designed to involve resident amenity areas, general public transit products and services, parking reductions and, probably, commercial area, these as a current market. The part of the Ontario Trail that goes by way of the assets would have to be rerouted, in accordance to the report.

“Releasing an RFP for the Mine Bench assets, a locale that has demonstrated fascination from personal sector lately, is not basic still completely possible,” the report suggests.

To make the progress, the parcel would have to be rezoned since takes advantage of beneath its Recreation Open Place zoning are confined to conservation, trails, horse and livestock grazing, recreation facilities, essential municipal public utilities and mines and mine exploration.

In addition, direct and other weighty metals from earlier mining operations would have to be removed and further retaining wall permits, landscaping and revegetation would be expected simply because of the site’s steep slopes.

The property has 3 structures on it that are employed as place of work, upkeep and storage facilities, but they are not on the element that would be utilised for housing.

Park Town has a heritage of producing thriving cost-effective housing on city-owned land, which include the eight-device Snow Creek Cottages, the 8-device The Retreat, the 11-device Central Park Condos and the 11-device Woodside Park Section 1, the employees report suggests. The tasks were funded as a result of the city’s Reduced Park Avenue Redevelopment Company.

Having said that, the for-sale model does not address the rising want for economical rental models, in accordance to the report.

“As the Metropolis has started to glance at the chance to develop general public/personal partnerships to acquire cost-effective housing, it has become obvious that the most major contribution to these partnerships is as a result of leasing Metropolis-owned land for a prolonged term (50 years or much more),” the report states.

The Mine Bench home is amongst many websites that have been beneath thing to consider considering that last 12 months as a locale for economical housing.

Town Councilor Max Doilney said the site would be an suitable place for a team of companies or a solitary employer to acquire. He wants the development to be all workforce housing and the developer to choose the guide.

“We could give them some normal parameters, but I want to see what they come with,” Doilney claimed. “I want to see their creative imagination, what they need to have for their personnel. I want to see how lots of employees they feel they can set there and present us that they have a history of employing that quite a few folks.”

Doilney also said he would want employers to give transportation to and from their areas.

Workers associates prepare to return to the City Council with a proposed RFP soon after seeking at how other communities manage similar developments, figuring out greatest methods and studying factors this kind of as cash flow limits.