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Grant application OK'd for more recycling.
Local legislators gave a green light for greener waste management, and another green light for affordable housing.
That was the upshot of the latest full Board of Alders meeting held at City Hall Monday night.
The board voted unanimously to allow the city’s Climate and Health Departments to apply for and accept pending grant money to boost recycling education and introduce a regionalized composting initiative. The board also gave the Livable City Initiative (LCI) the final go-ahead to sustainably dispose not of banana peels or plastic water bottles, but of three city-owned properties into the hands of non-profits looking to boost affordable housing.
Read about the recycling-and-composting subject of that first vote in detail here. If the Elicker Administration wins two different grants it has applied for, New Haven will receive $6 million total to invest in tracking and improving recycling habits around the city in addition to launching an opt-in food waste management plan in partnership with West Haven and other neighboring municipalities.
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263 Dixwell Ave.
The second vote gave the city the final OK to sell three publicly owned properties to nonprofits seeking to establish affordable rentals and homeownership opportunities across New Haven.
The alders supported a plan to sell two multi-family homes at 262 and 263 Dixwell Ave. to the Beulah Land Development Corporation for their respective appraised prices of $245,000 and $250,000. The city recently won permission to buy those two properties from oft-cited megalandlord Ocean Management in a package deal that will also see the city acquire the famed but blighted Monterey Jazz Club. Beulah plans to maintain these two multi-family homes as affordable rentals. Read more about that here.
That vote also empowered LCI to sell a vacant, three-family home located at 177 Winthrop to the Urban Development Corporation for $2,000. The organization plans to rehabilitate the property and sell it to an owner-occupant.
"That vote also empowered LCI to sell a vacant, three-family home located at 177 Winthrop to the Urban Development Corporation for $2,000. The organization plans to rehabilitate the property and sell it to an owner-occupant."
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