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Donation (Disposition) of City Property Tax Parcel #15995-043-000 to Alachua Habitat for Humanity, Inc. (B)
This item requests City Commission authorization to donate one parcel of City-owned land to the Alachua Habitat for Humanity, Inc. to place a new affordable home and sell it to a qualified low-income first-time homebuyer to complete the "Katrina Cottage Project".
Explanation
On January 8, 2007, the City and Santa Fe College (SFC) formed a partnership by which the City Commission, as noted by Legislative File # 060827, approved the award of a $46,500 grant from the Infill Housing program to the Charles R. Perry Construction Institute at Santa Fe College to construct a 1,000 square-foot residence that would be owned by the City, relocated to a vacant City lot and sold to an income eligible first-time homebuyer. Staff has been working with SFC to finalize the completion of the housing project since its inception. In Mid-2009, SFC invited Alachua Habitat for Humanity, Inc. (Habitat) into the partnership because it needed a licensed general contractor to complete the construction of the home as part of the project.
On July 1, 2009, staff provided a project status report to the Commission which indicated that the SFC house, originally modeled after the "Katrina Cottages" to be constructed by SFC students on the Santa Fe College campus, would be relocated to a City-owned site in the Breezy Acres neighborhood located at 2404 SE 13th Street. Since that time, SFC restructured the project from a 2-bedroom/1 bath house plan to a larger 1250 sq. ft., 3-bedroom/2-bath house plan. Additionally, SFC invited Habitat to partner in this endeavor. As a result of the change in the house plans and the inclusion of Habitat in the project, multiple meetings occurred between August 2010 and January 2011, in order to reach a memorandum of understanding of the role of the three entities.
As part of the restructure of this project, Mr. Scott Winzeler, a represen...
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