Portland Land Use Code

Citation: Portland Land Use Code 17.
Parent Document: Portland Land Use Code
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/a5dcd1dc-4117-40b3-b3da-74a56919e14b ↗

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17.2.3 Ensuring workforce housing TABLE 17-C: MINIMUM TERM OF AFFORDABILITY FOR
A. Purpose. Based on the City’s Comprehensive REQUIRED WORKFORCE UNITS
Plan and the City’s 2015 housing study, it is in % of Workforce
the public interest to promote an adequate Units Provided Minimum Term of Affordability
supply of housing that is affordable to a range 25% 30 years
of households at different income levels. The 50% 20 years
purpose of this subsection is to ensure that 100% 10 years
housing developments over a certain size
provide a portion of workforce housing units from areas inside the respective buildings
and, by doing so, promote the health, safety, that these units are workforce housing
and welfare of Portland citizens. units, and must demonstrate general parity
B. Applicability. This subsection shall apply to in unit design, finishes, and amenities
site plan applications that create ten or more between market and workforce units in the
new dwelling units for rent or for sale through development. Applications shall include a
new construction, substantial alteration of narrative that addresses parity of
existing structures, adaptive reuse or workforce and market rate units, a
conversion of a nonresidential use to description of workforce and market rate
residential use, or any combination of these unit attributes and amenities, phasing if
elements. This subsection shall not apply to applicable, and integration into the
projects that otherwise meet or exceed the respective building and site design.
standards of 17.2.3(C). 4. Workforce units need not be the same size
C. Standards. Development projects subject to as other units in the development but the
this subsection shall meet to the following cumulative number of bedrooms in such
requirements: units shall be no less than 25% of the total
1. At least 25% of the units in the project shall number of bedrooms in the development.
meet the definition of workforce housing 5. As an alternative to providing workforce
unit for sale or for rent as defined in housing units, projects may pay a fee-in-
Article 3. The project shall have the option lieu of some or all of the units. In-lieu fees
of paying a partial fee-in-lieu as per (5) shall be paid into the Housing Trust Fund.
below or providing an additional unit on- The fee for affordable units not provided
site for any fractional value. shall be $150,000 per unit, adjusted
2. Projects shall not be segmented to avoid annually in the same way as the fee under
compliance with these provisions. Subsection 17.1.8.
3. Workforce units must be integrated with 6. Workforce housing units for sale, if
the rest of the development, must use a converted to workforce housing units for
common entrance in the case of mixed rent, shall become subject to the income
market rate and workforce buildings, must limits and other requirements of such units.
provide no indication from the exterior or 17-6 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE HOUSING

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