May 25, 2021Asheville City Council
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Approves the purchase of real property at 50 Asheland Avenue for the purposes of advancing racial and socioeconomic equity within our community through…
- Passed. Everyone present voted yes.
- The money, in the minutes' words: “As noted earlier in the staff report, funding for the purchase will come from the general fund in the amount of $1,325,000 (however, in the alternative we can use land banking funds from the bond funds), and $1,250,000 from the Dogwood Health Trust.”
More from the minutes
- “a larger mixed-use development to include affordable housing, commercial uses, and other public institutional spaces, and”
- “advance racial equity through being intentional and inclusive in the development, construction and defined uses of the property (e.g. through proposed partnerships with community land trusts, community space, and a “Purpose Built” type structure around the goals and intentions of the property, etc.)”
- “Quality affordable housing to lower income individuals and families”
Official title: Council approved the purchase of real property at 50 Asheland Avenue for the purposes of advancing racial and socioeconomic equity within our community through expanding housing and transit options by allowing for an expanded transit center and affordable housing in order to ratify the grant agreement with the Dogwood Health Trust
Carried unanimously
From the minutes: This motion was seconded by Councilwoman Kilgore and carried unanimously by roll call vote (Mayor Manheimer was recused.
Read the motion as recorded
“Councilwoman Roney moved to approve the purchase of real property at 50 Asheland Avenue for the purposes of advancing racial and socioeconomic equity within our community through expanding housing and transit options by allowing for an expanded transit center and affordable housing in order to ratify the grant agreement with the Dogwood Health Trust.”
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