SALISBURY — A special meeting of the Salisbury Affordable Housing Commission, held online on Wednesday, Jan. 27, had to be rescheduled after the hosts were unable to accommodate the number of people who wanted to participate.
The rescheduled meeting is Thursday, Feb.4, 7:30 p.m. (see the town website, www.salisburyct.us, for details).
The Jan. 27 agenda included an overview of the town’s affordable housing plan and a presentation from the Salisbury Housing Committee on a revised proposal for an affordable housing apartment building at 11 Holley St. in Lakeville.
Jocelyn Ayer, speaking for the Housing Committee, reminded everyone that the meeting was informational, and not a public hearing.
The Housing Committee made a similar presentation last week to the Planning and Zoning Commission. The application has not been submitted yet.
Last fall the Housing Committee made an application for a 13-unit apartment building at the site, now occupied by a small park and a parking lot at the intersection of Holley Street and Main Street (Route 44) in Lakeville.
The application was the subject of intense public interest and comment.
The Housing Committee withdrew the application on Nov. 9, prior to the third session of a public hearing.
The latest version is smaller —15,300 square feet compared to 16,400 square feet in the earlier iteration.
The original proposal had 13 apartments: eight one-bedroom, two two-bedroom, and three three-bedroom, on three floors.
The new proposal is for 12 apartments: seven one-bedroom, four two-bedroom, one three-bedroom, on three floors.
On Jan. 27, the meeting was underway when Jennifer Kronholm Clark, chair of the Salisbury Affordable Housing Commission and host of the meeting, realized that the chat room was full of complaints from people saying that others could not sign in.
Kronholm Clark said that the Zoom account being used had a 100-person limit. Mary Close Oppenheimer, who was giving the presentation of the affordable housing plan when the Zoom problem arose, suggested she host the meeting.
This was done, only to discover that the Oppenheimer account had the same 100-person limit.
When the dust settled, the meeting had been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Note: The Salisbury Housing Committee is a private nonprofit organization. It operates the Sarum Village affordable housing complex on Cobble Road in Salisbury. For more information on housing organizations in Salisbury, go to www.salisburycthousing.org.
The Salisbury Affordable Housing Commission is a town commission.
