You know what’s kind of fun now and then? It’s to ride your bike on a network of brand new, freshly paved suburban streets before there’s any traffic because the houses have yet to be built.
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Tags: Albany City Council, city fees, impact fees, new houses, new subdivisions, System development charges
Tags: Albany City Council, city fees, impact fees, new houses, new subdivisions, System development charges
Would lower fees make houses affordable?
In the interest of making houses more “affordable,” the Albany City Council seems inclined to lower systems development charges on small new single-family dwellings and raise them on big ones. But “affordable” is not a firm number, so whether the idea works is impossible to predict.
Tags: affordable housing, Albany council, Albany housing, housing, impact fees, systems development charges