By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
Junction City Commissioners have voted no on a proposed ordinance that would have established the Mallard Attainable Homes Residential Housing Incentive District in the Sutter Woods, Sutter Highlands Subdivision and Prairie Ridge Addition.
A developer had purchased a number of lots and was seeking incentives help in building homes and to make them affordable. It was a tool to incentivize a developer. This would have been a 25-year District with multiple phases.
There was extensive protest by local contractors and other residents against the project during a public hearing Tuesday night. Opponents argued that the RHID would not add to the number of quality homes being built but would just change who is building. The City was asked why not propose this to all builders in the area and why incentivize an RHID. There was also a point that going into farther debt to reduce existing debt might not be the best path.
Had the proposal passed both the County and USD 475 could have also had veto power on this issue.