AGENDA #5d(2)

 

MEMORANDUM

 

TO:               Mayor and Town Council

 

FROM:         W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager

 

SUBJECT:    Initial Report on Davidson, North Carolina Affordable Housing Initiatives

 

DATE:          January 10, 2005

 

 

The attached report provides a summary of discussion at a recent staff visit to Davidson, North Carolina to learn about how that town has provided affordable housing.

 

At its Council planning session on January 15, 2004, the Council established as its seventh highest priority goal to learn about how Davidson, North Carolina has provided affordable housing through its inclusionary zoning ordinance by the Fourth Quarter 2004.  In the November 8, 2004 Quarterly Report on Council Goals, we reported that staff was planning a trip to Davidson in mid-November 2004, to gather information for a report to the Council.

 

We plan to provide a more detailed report and analysis for a Council work session on affordable housing to be scheduled (please see related agenda item 5d(1).)