[CPEO-BIF] "Williamstown [Massachusetts] launches push to turn brownfields into affordable housing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Williamstown launches push to turn brownfields into affordable housing

By Jenn Smith
Berkshire Eagle (MA)
January 14, 2014

WILLIAMSTOWN -- Efforts to address a need for affordable housing in  
the community have just taken a big step forward.

The Williamstown Board of Selectmen on Monday night unanimously ap  
proved a motion to issue requests for proposals for affordable  
housing and mixed-use development at two town-owned brownfield sites.

"We're grateful to the Selectmen for their support, and we're  
thrilled to be on the threshold of issuing RFPs," said Cathy  
Yamamoto, chairwoman of the Williamstown Affordable Housing Com  
mittee. "We're open to creative thinking on behalf of the developers.  
Any development on these sites is part of the solution."

Developing the properties -- a former town garage site at 59 Water  
St. and the 4.8-acre former Photech Mill site at 233 Cole Ave. -- has  
been a priority for the committee, which released a Housing Needs  
Assessment last February.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_24908746/williamstown-launches- 
push-turn-brownfields-into-affordable-housing

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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