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20. Q: What are "accessory apartments"? What would I have to do to convert part of myhouse into an accessory apartment?21. Q: What is "home share"?Faith House RentalsSalisbury Housing CommitteeSalisbury, CT28
The Committee’s Work and RecommendationsThe Selectmen’s charge to the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (Appendix I) asked thegroup to identify existing impediments to creating affordable housing in town and to makerecommendations about how to eliminate or reduce those impediments. The Committee pinpointedfour areas for careful study: location and infrastructure, regulations, organization, and finance. Theproduct of several months’ study follows. After extensive discussion the group also developed aseries of recommendations in each of these categories. These recommendations are found at the endof each of the following sections.I. Location and InfrastructureAs part of its work, the AHAC investigated how questions relating to location and infrastructureimpact the availability of affordable housing in the Town of Salisbury. Among the issues examinedwere: Where should affordable housing be located? What types of affordable housing exist? What roleshould sustainability play in planning and construction decisions? How do septic requirements affectaffordable housing decisions? How does the current capacityof Salisbury’s water treatment plant affect affordablehousing decisions? A summary of that research follows.We endorse the creationof 200 additional units ofaffordable housing in thenext ten years. Much ofthis additional housingcan and should be createdwithout new construction.In carrying out its research the Committee initiallyexamined two important questions, “What types ofaffordable housing are available and where should suchhousing go?” The Committee endorses the creation of 200additional units of affordable housing in the next ten years.Much of this additional housing can and should be createdwithout new construction. In fact, many different sites and building options might be appropriate.Here are some of the possibilities.The vast majority of housing in Salisbury is composed of detached, single-family residences,typically on lots of two acres or more. In the villages, lot sizes are smaller (one-quarter or one-halfacre minimum, depending on zone). Without constructing new houses, the opportunity already existsto create many new affordable units by converting existing homes through simple purchase. Some ofthe larger of these might then be converted to multi-family houses or expanded or modified toprovide accessory apartments. Other units could be provided in “mixed-use” (residential andcommercial) buildings. In each case, reusing the houses and commercial spaces we already have tobest advantage seems a sensible strategy.29
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Appendix VI: Cornwall, Connecticut
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- Where the dwelling(s) are located
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