The Block Island Times: New affordable apartment units proposed

By Pat Tengwall

Sat, 11/18/2017 - 7:15am

One nearing the starting line, one in the works.

With most of the approvals for the Cherry Hill Lane development lined up, the Block Island Housing Board turned to a new phase of that project, and learned about another planned affordable apartment project at its most recent meeting.

The new project was unveiled in a letter from the Harbor Church asking the Housing Board to endorse a plan to renovate the third floor of the church building into four one-bedroom apartments as affordable rental units. The church requested that a “letter of sponsorship” from the Housing Board be sent to the Zoning Board, which member John Spier agreed to draft.

As to the ongoing affordable housing project, Cherry Hill Lane, Housing Board Chair Cindy Pappas told the members that she was “hopeful that we will be able to move forward” to the construction phase by the summer of 2018.

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