
{"id":26511,"date":"2012-06-21T10:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26511"},"modified":"2012-06-21T10:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:09:56","slug":"boa-approves-sewer-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/06\/21\/boa-approves-sewer-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"BOA approves sewer funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0The Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve the use of $9,000 in affordable-housing funds to connect the Hillsborough Road Cooperative to the public sewer system. <\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough Road Cooperative, two houses at the corner of Hillsborough Road where it meets North Greensboro Street, is part of the Weaver Community Housing Association. WCHA requested $9,000 of the $27,000 needed to connect the two houses to the public sewer system after the cooperative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aging septic system began to fail in April. <\/p>\n<p>The town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Affordable Housing Special Revenue fund was created by the town in 2007 to assist with increasing the stock of affordable, safe and decent housing in Carrboro. Developers make payments to the fund in lieu of providing affordable housing within projects. Community Home Trust executive director Robert Dowling recommended the use of the fund \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which currently has $11,750 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for this project. <\/p>\n<p>WCHA founded the Hillsborough Road Cooperative in 2001, providing affordable housing to those earning 80 percent or less of the area median income. The board approved the request for funds with the caveat that new residents would be required to earn 60 percent or less of the area median income, with current residents grandfathered in under the previous 80 percent standard. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to make sure we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not subsidizing people who have access to larger amounts of money,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d board member Jacquie Gist said. <\/p>\n<p>The board also asked that residents maintain the property. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a little reluctant to allocate funds to a place that is so often such a mess,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gist said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It has been really, really messy for years, which is insulting to the neighbors that live around it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>WCHA representative Devin Ross said that residents had recently been making more of an effort to maintain the property and that they would continue to work to keep it clean. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we have been seeing around the clock is a renewed interest in civic responsibility,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ross said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think the property looks better than it has in awhile.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot of people over the years have thought that various things would be useful and they brought them there for us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he continued. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These things don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t belong in our yard \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they belong in a landfill, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Board member Randee Haven-O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell encouraged residents to seek help with cleaning up the property by reaching out to the community, if they felt help was needed. <\/p>\n<p>Board member Sammy Slade, who lives in another WCHA cooperative, said the organization is an inspirational model for affordable housing. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The people who live there are very self-sufficient, inspiring people, and I think are a huge asset for Carrboro,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to approve the use of $9,000 in affordable-housing funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26512,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions\/26512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}