{"id":127182,"date":"2022-11-16T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=127182"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:21:30","slug":"town-of-sutton-reaches-an-agreement-to-purchase-property-with-hopes-for-an-affordable-housing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/town-of-sutton-reaches-an-agreement-to-purchase-property-with-hopes-for-an-affordable-housing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutton reaches agreement to purchase property with hopes of affordable housing project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Town of Sutton has negotiated an agreement with the owners of the Vieux-Verger property to purchase the 21-acre site for $1,409,000 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The town decided to purchase the property, located between Domaine-Mon-Louis and Seymour Streets, with the hopes of constructing an affordable housing development for young families\u2014a project that the owners have been trying to get off the ground for over a decade.<\/p>\n

With the agreement set in place, the next step is to hold a public consultation to present the plans for the affordable housing project to citizens in order to obtain the support and financing that is needed to finalize the purchase of the land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been working with the owners for the last year to work on the development of a major project, but they\u2019ve been working on this project for 12 years. They never had any kind of commitment from the town. They need a lot of commitment because there are a lot of changes to be made,\u201d explained Robert Beno\u00eet, mayor of Sutton.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet added that after 12 years, the owners decided to pass the torch to the municipality to ensure that certain conditions are followed and respected by developers.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrivate developers will develop a project that is under our vision and under our conditions,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The town hired a company that specializes in property evaluations that came up with the market value price of $1,409,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey compared it to other sales that were happening in the area, and we came up with $85,000 per acre. We said that we\u2019re ready to pay that and we\u2019re ready to sell it at the same price. We won\u2019t make a profit off of it, we don\u2019t want to make a profit. (\u2026) We want to make sure that the price of the land will remain the same, even in five years from now or two years from now,\u201d emphasized Beno\u00eet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a housing crisis in Sutton right now, noted Beno\u00eet, for a variety of reasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not enough availability of housing, we need to have more lower cost housing, and the short-term rentals didn\u2019t help. A lot of long-term rentals were put on the market for weekends or anything under 31 days,\u201d he said. \u201cWe lost about 12 apartments just in the village. Overall, it\u2019s between 75-150. In a small village like Sutton, it\u2019s terrible because the availability at this rate is zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet mentioned that the number of houses\/units for the affordable housing project could be anywhere between 50 to 100. There are parts of the land that are ecologically sensitive that will not be developed and that will be conserved in perpetuity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve worked with these owners and they\u2019ve worked on several aspects of the houses or the buildings they would like. We would like it to be ecological buildings. We want them to very specifically be tied to the rural architecture of Sutton,\u201d he highlighted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the last big piece of land in the village that can be developed, Beno\u00eet said this is a major opportunity to attract young families to the village.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A public consultation will be held early next year to approve a borrowing-bylaw in order for the town to officially purchase the land.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need more young families in the town. We have an excellent school. I was with 50 kids the other day who dreamt of the future of Sutton. We\u2019re a society where the average age is near 60 years old. This is a big opportunity to have affordable houses for young families because at this point in time the increase in prices for the last three years has been 40 per cent,\u201d explained Beno\u00eet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are other affordable housing projects in the works for Sutton, including \u201ctiny houses\u201d for seasonal workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, listen to the full interview below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Town of Sutton has negotiated an agreement with the owners of the Vieux-Verger property to purchase the 21-acre site for $1,409,000 million.\u00a0 The town decided to purchase the property, located between Domaine-Mon-Louis and Seymour Streets, with the hopes of constructing an affordable housing development for young families\u2014a project that the owners have been trying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":127186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,225],"tags":[579,3212,9012,5246,571,2335,3807,14026,1989],"radio":[246],"origine":[274,259,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182"}],"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\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127202,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182\/revisions\/127202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127182"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=127182"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=127182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}