Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2021 Page 4
Laurie Ortolano
Yes. Lori Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. I'm glad to see this coming forward and a first step to add, you know,
affordable housing to the Nashua stock. | have a couple questions about the plan and I'm hoping | can get some
answers.
The inclusionary zoning policy matrix that was put up here on the screen is different than the one that's attached to
the board agenda that | just pulled up off line and | believe that one from less than 10 and 10 to 49 was excluded and
now you've added 10 to 49 is part of the program that requires affordable housing. | don't know if | saw that
differently. Was there a point where the data was different?
Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager
There are two matrices presented within the policy. The policy that was posted online actually should include both
and | believe it does include both. The first matrix is related to the policy that will exist from January 15 of 2022 to
June 30" of 2022.
Laurie Ortolano
Okay.
Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager
The second matrix that Director Cummings showed this evening is a policy that will exist | believe to be in perpetuity
belongs to the updated from July 1, 2022 until a subsequent update happens.
Laurie Ortolano
Okay.
Matt Sullivan, Planning Manager
There are two independent matrices that are intended to be a ramp up of the policy and its implementation.
Laurie Ortolano
Okay, perfect. So I'm a little bit concerned about the group that falls in the 10 to 49 when you look at bonusing, you
know, that they can get a density bonus. That's not a very high number of housing units. | went to a presentation
down in South Nashua where there's those townhomes going in - 11 blocks, 44 houses. They would fall in this thing.
They would end up with four that would be part of the inclusionary, you know, have to be affordable housing. They
get a bonus, which would allow them to put another building up but | don't know that there's the space to actually do
that and make the bonus work. So | think the bonus might work best for numbers above that. But that's just a thought
and that doesn't mean | don't support this because | do. It's something you can check out.
| was wondering if you have a mechanism in place on how you're going to monitor this and look at the success of the
program. It would be really nice when the Board adopts these things that once a year you come back - the Planning
Board or somebody with a table, a chart that shows how many affordable housing units were created, what we did
within these neighborhoods, and the benefits we saw so we can actually have some tracking. | think that would be
really helpful and that's not part of the ordinance, but | think it would be very helpful.
And I'm also wondering in Section C under terms location and size of affordable...
Alderman O’Brien
30 seconds.
Laurie Ortolano
...units. How did we pick 99 years as the timeframe for the affordability? Why did we go in such a long term?
