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New neighbors and homeowners
Samantha Kelly (left) with her son Cullen,
and April Wood, with her son, Trevor, at Taylor Meadow.
Bob Eddy
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Taylor Meadow:
New Homes, New Futures
John Tenny, owner of Mill Bridge Construction in Middlebury, has been
a builder for 30 years — and he’s the board chair for Addison County
Community Trust (ACCT), a nonprofit developer of affordable housing.
“I got involved on the ACCT board because as a builder, we were not in a
position to meet the essential housing needs of a whole large segment of the
community,” Tenny says. “In fact, the need is greater now. The disparity
between costs and the ability to purchase is greater, and that’s to the detriment
of communities.”
This autumn, an ACCT project took shape on a two-acre parcel set aside
for affordable housing by the Vermont Land Trust in 1987. Along the back rim
of Taylor Meadow, a broad, conserved green space in the center of Hancock,
five new, trim white houses now face the meadow, with their backs to the
White River. Five households from Rochester and Hancock, four of whom
have incomes below half of the county median, now reside in the new homes at
Project Profile
5 single family homes
Developer:
Addison County
Community Trust
Architect:
Peter Morris, Vergennes
Contractors:
White River Timber Framing;
Harvey's Plumbing & Electrical
Affordability:
less than 50%
of median income