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<DIV>I think I have incorporated all of your suggestions into the attached cover
letter. Bring any final ideas tomorrow. Thanks, Mark</DIV>
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face=Times>DRAFT FOR COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION \u2013<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times>I have tried to incorporate the changes suggested at last meeting
into this version.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please bring
this with an additional suggestions to the Feb.7
meeting.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times>FROM: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>The Town of Long Island Year-round Housing
Committee<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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Residents<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times>SUBJECT:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Housing Interest
Survey<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times>Enclosed, please find a survey designed to gauge specific interest
concerning housing issues on <st1:place w:st="on">Long Island</st1:place>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have included one copy of the survey
for each person 18 years or older in your household. (FOR YR SURVEY ONLY) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please complete it by( Feb 15?) and
return it in the enclosed stamped envelope. (For seasonal survey: \u201cWe have
included one copy per household, but feel free to add additional comments if
several members of your household have differing opinions on
questions.\u201d)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times>The Year-round Housing Committee (YRHC) was created to explore
housing issues and availability for Long Islanders in the ever-tightening
coastal second home real estate market. As has already been experienced by our
sister islands up and down the coast, housing is simply becoming unavailable for
young people trying to stay in their island communities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As noted in several past articles
in the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Long Islander, the <st1:place
w:st="on">Island</st1:place> Times, the Working Waterfront</I>, The Governor\u2019s
Annual Housing Conference, and elsewhere, perhaps no issue threatens the future
well-being of the year round viability of this community more than lack of year
round housing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some people who
already live here, including young families, with children in school, or those
wishing to have families, may not be able to settle or stay here permanently due
to housing issues.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
possible that many of us that do live here would have trouble re-entering this
housing market again if we had to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Think about what your house may be worth and whether you could re-buy it
in today\u2019s market.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face=Times>Every person here\u2014young and old\u2014adds to the well-being and healthy
diversity of the town and in no way is any initial emphasis on helping young
folks to stay here meant to detract from those of us \u201cnot so young\u201d. The reality
is that certain jobs, skills, and energies require younger hands to do
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our town needs the diversity
that a continuing presence of younger people bring to serve on the fire
department, pilot the rescue boat, build buildings, be sternmen, care for
children, and carry on all the many activities of the community as the rest of
us age!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face=Times>The fewer younger hands here, the more we have to hire others from
the mainland, the more expensive life here becomes, and perhaps most important
the less livable <st1:place w:st="on">Long Island</st1:place> slowly becomes for
the rest of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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face=Times>The YRHC believes that a modest housing proposal might be a good
beginning step to stimulate thinking, interest, and experience in addressing
this issue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keeping in mind that
the goal is to keep our young people here, preference would be to make it
available to such candidates by utilizing grants, low cost municipal loans and
any other resources to keep the housing, in whatever form it takes, as
affordable as possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The word
\u201caffordable housing\u201d is commonly used to describe such efforts, but
affordability, while critically important, probably in this housing market is
second to simple <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">availability!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>It will be as affordable as
possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other island and
coastal towns have completed various kinds of projects; with much advice
available from their experiences, good and bad.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times>Project possibilities include a spectrum of ideas from helping
eligible buyers find financing for year-round homes, increasing rental
possibilities, developing some sort of assisted-living programs for our seniors,
to perhaps being an agency that can step in and purchase properties that may be
deemed affordable to be re-sold to eligible candidates when needed.<SPAN
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face=Times>We need to know before more exploratory work is done if we have the
community\u2019s support to continue. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No matter how much support this idea
receives, the obvious needs to be clearly stated: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>any funding be it loans or needed
expenditures of tax monies to move any proposed project forward <U>would clearly
be dependent on Town Meeting approval</U>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even though the majority
of our citizens taking this survey do not have personal housing needs, your
input is extremely important.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
ask you to consider this a serious community issue that does have solutions if
we act in a timely fashion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for taking time to
complete this survey.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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