{"id":111974,"date":"2022-08-20T13:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=111974"},"modified":"2022-08-20T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T17:07:04","slug":"prince-edward-county-greenlights-developer-bylaw-to-incentivize-local-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/prince-edward-county-greenlights-developer-bylaw-to-incentivize-local-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward County greenlights developer bylaw to incentivize local affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Prince Edward County council approved of <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/6FA437AAE72D43678869A577E393BD3B-Att%201%20-%20Draft%20Municipal%20Capital%20Facilities%20By-Law%20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a draft capital facilities by-law<\/a> which will encourage affordable housing development in the county.<\/p>\n<p>This by-law will incentivize private and not-for-profit developers in various ways including conditional grants, property tax exemptions, and developer charge exemptions (according to the presented <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/315D8AAB3AF84DC79DAF5C680EB24114-HD-02-2022%20FINAL%20(CAOsigned).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staff report<\/a>). These will be conditional upon the developer situating affordable housing projects on vacant land and keeping them affordable for a period of 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Steve Ferguson commented that this program could be used to create affordable units for much needed medical professionals in the county.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Prince Edward County council approved of a draft capital facilities by-law which will encourage affordable housing development in the county. This by-law will incentivize private and not-for-profit developers in various ways including conditional grants, property tax exemptions, and developer charge exemptions (according to the presented staff report). These will be conditional upon the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":102711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[579,17933,17934,14241,12284],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112023,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111974\/revisions\/112023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111974"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=111974"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=111974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}