By Scott Turner
The Huntsville Community Development Department held a series of public forums to solicit input from residents on community priorities, affordable housing needs and fair housing issues for inclusion in a Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Fair Housing Study.
The forums were held Dec. 10-11.
“This is a great way for the public’s input to be directly incorporated into the City’s plans for the next five years,” City Community Development Manager Scott Erwin said in a news release. “We welcome all members of the public to join us for one of these public meetings.”
Residents are invited to attend the following forums:
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 6 p.m., Seminole Service Center, 212 Seminole Drive SW
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1 p.m., Downtown Public Library, 915 Monroe Street
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 6 p.m., Showers Recreation Center, 4600 Blue Spring Road
The City of Huntsville is beginning to develop a five-year plan that identifies community development and affordable housing needs and sets priorities for investment of federal grant funds to address them. A second analysis of barriers to fair housing is also being conducted.
Among the city’s efforts for more affordable housing is the $400 million Mill Creek Choice Neighborhood Initiative that seeks to revitalize a distressed neighborhood near the downtown core with a mixture of market value, affordable and subsidized housing.
For more information and to take a survey on where the City of Huntsville should focus its efforts, visit Huntsville Housing & Community Needs Survey.