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An ordinance establishing a Voluntary Attainable Housing Incentive Program for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build multi-family attainable housing.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to T.C.A. ? 13-3-601, the State of Tennessee allows the chief legislative body of a municipality to create a voluntary attainable housing incentive program by ordinance for the purpose of authorizing certain incentives to be provided to property owners who seek to build multi-family attainable housing; and
WHEREAS, the ordinance must contain, at a minimum, the definition of attainable housing; the types of multi-family housing facilities, buildings, and structures eligible for the program; the geographic areas of the municipality where multi-family facilities, buildings, and structures eligible for the program may be constructed or rented; any special exceptions or conditional uses included in the zoning ordinances of the municipality that apply to attainable multi-family housing projects; any other municipal incentives available to property owners who are approved for participation in the program; and the process that a property owner must follow to provide notice of interest for the voluntary program, including convening of a pre-application conference, and the process for submitting a completed application as set forth in T.C.A. ? 13-3-603; and
WHEREAS, the Unified Housing Strategy produced by the Nashville Planning Department's Housing Division in Spring 2025 anticipates the need to create 90,000 new homes by 2035 and recommends the creation of a local voluntary attainable housing program in Metro Nashville to help increase the supply of a greater variety of housing types across the income spectrum; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Government determines that it is in the best interest of the citizens of the Metropolitan Government to expand upon efforts to address housing a...
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