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This week's planning applications submitted to Kirklees

Here are the latest planning applications decided by Kirklees Council this week. Almondbury Applications submitted: S Ervine - c/o Agent, Installation of raised decking to rear at 47, Mountfield Avenue, Waterloo, Huddersfield Alex Paling, Work to TPO(s) HU2/73 at 318, Almondbury Bank , Almondbury, Huddersfield Ashbrow Applications Submitted: D Humphreys, Installation of first floor front and single storey rear extensions at 19, Woodside Lane, Fixby, Huddersfield Frank Marshall Estates, Discharge condition 12 (landscaping) on previous permission 2016/92866 for installation of six industrial units with office accommodation, formation of car parking and service yards and associated works at Mamas And Papas Warehouse, Colne Bridge Road , Colne Bridge, Huddersfield Thomas Jenkins, C/O Agent, Outline application for new detached dwelling at14 , Netheroyd Hill Road , Fixby, Huddersfield Conditional Full Permission Steve Wilford, C/O Agent, New single storey rear extension and a...

With California Lawmakers Back from Recess, Housing Crisis Is in the Crosshairs

Cross posted from our sister-site, Santa Monica Next . California state legislators are back in Sacramento after a month- long summer recess and they are looking to tackle the state’s growing housing crisis with a package of bills that could generate more than $3 billion for affordable housing as well as streamline new housing approval and construction. But lawmakers and political observers alike have noted that it won’t be an easy task to get the votes necessary to pass some of bigger-ticket legislation, like S.B. 2 and S.B. 3 , both of which have passed the State Senate but still need to get through the Assembly. And both require a two-thirds supermajority to pass. S.B. 2, introduced by State Senator Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), would place a $75 fee on real estate transactions and generate roughly $250 million a year annually. State Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose) introduced S.B. 3, which would put a housing bond before the voters in 2018 that would generate $3 billion. “We ne...

Natick: Apartments proposed for Speen Street - News - MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MA

Brian Benson Daily News Staff @bbensonMWDN NATICK - Another housing development could be coming to Speen Street to the north of Rte. 9. Developer Josh Katzen of Cloverleaf Mall and Cloverleaf Apartments is eyeing building about 125 apartments in the same area off Speen Street. The Cloverleaf West Apartments would be built under Chapter 40B and include affordable units . It would be a 10-story building like the existing apartments, Katzen said. "We’re at the very early stages," Katzen told the Planning Board recently . The Massachusetts Housing Partnership needs to sign off before it would go before the Natick Zoning Board of Appeals, he said. Chapter 40B is designed to spur the creation of affordable housing . Because Natick is above a state requirement for affordable housing units , a developer who proposes a Chapter 40B project loses an opportunity to appeal a zoning board decision to the state Housing Appeals Committee . But the zoning board can still consider 40...

Affordable housing in the works for East Bayside, East Deering

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It’s been only two months since the Portland Housing Authority opened Bayside Anchor , its first new housing development in decades. But already, the low- income housing provider is poised to file plans for two additional projects , totaling more than 155 units of housing at a time when a dearth of affordable housing in Maine’s largest city is reaching crisis levels . “This is the continuation of our effort to be a part of the solution to the affordable housing crisis in Portland,” said Jay Waterman, the housing authority ’s development director. The authority is looking to build a 55- unit apartment building at 58 Boyd St. in the city’s East Bayside neighborhood . The site is practically across the street from Bayside Anchor , a highly energy- efficient PHA apartment building at 81 Oxford St. with 45 units that opened in June. A public meeting about the East Bayside proposal has been scheduled for Monday, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at 47 Smith St. Meanwhile, about 2 miles away, t...

The Next Hot 'Hoods in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Magazine - March 2016

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We offer our predictions on communities that will rank among the city's most desirable in 2026. Plus a look at developers who are working to make those visions a reality. February 18, 2016 (page 7 of 7) 8 developers with insight who are rethinking our urban neighborhoods   BY DEBRA SMIT G reat neighborhoods — with ample green space , commerce and good housing stock — empower their residents to grow and prosper. Developers are key when it comes to weaving together the physical threads of a community, particularly in urban neighborhoods frayed by years of blight and decay. These are among the developers who are working to revitalize some of the city’s most challenged neighborhoods, striving to be restorers of streets in which to dwell. All have one eye, certainly, on the bottom line. Still, they are well aware of expectations that they give measured consideration to quality of life in the neighborhoods in which they build.   Wi...