PDAC: Submission #1306 | Dayton Development Coalition

Submission information

Project Details

1. To which Review Panel are you submitting your project? Quality of Life

2. Project title Corry St Affordable Housing Readiness- Sewer & Storm Relocation

3. Short description Yellow Springs is a very attractive community, partly due to its walkability and access to recreation & services – an ideal place to ‘age in place’ and to work, live & play. To help address the local housing crisis, several Village-owned properties have been identified. Recently, a 3.2-acre tract of land near downtown was returned to the Village, providing an ideal place to build affordable/workforce housing. This project is readiness for development, primarily moving a sewer & stormwater line.

Organization Details

4. Organization making the request Village of Yellow Springs

5-8. Address 100 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, Ohio. 45387

9. County Greene

10. Recipient organization Same

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16. Organization type Government

Organization Contact Details

17. Name Johnnie Burns

18. Title Village Manager

19. Organization Village of Yellow Springs

20. Telephone 9377671279

21. Email jburns@vil.yellowsprings.oh.us

22-25. Address 100 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, Ohio. 45387

26. County Greene

27. Additional contacts Amy Kemper, Village of Yellow Springs, 937-767-7204, akemper@vil.yellowsprings.oh.us

Location Details

28. City Yellow Springs

29. County Greene

30. Congressional district Ohio 10th

Financial Details

31. Funding request 250000

32. Total Cost 350000

33. Other sources of funds Village Affordable Housing Fund - $100,000 committed in current budget for building affordable housing

34. How the funds will be used Construction or Capital

35. Do you have matching funds raised or committed? If yes, explain in question #36. If no, skip to question #37. Yes

36. If yes, please provide additional information. (Or, budget document can be uploaded, see question 37) Two years ago, the Village of Yellow Springs established an Affordable Housing Fund, which is directly funded by ‘affordable housing mitigation fees’ from our non-operator occupied transient guest lodging establishments, and this upcoming budget year, FY2024, $100,000 has been appropriated to the Fund for building affordable housing. In addition, the Village works closely with our local community development corporation – Yellow Springs Home, Inc. – to identify additional funding opportunities from state and federal entities such as the OHFA & USDA. We are hopeful that this project will attract these funds given our success in past endeavors that have built/are building more than 50 affordable housing units, and due to the critical community need.

37. Budget No

38. By what date will you be ready to spend the funds Within the next 6 months

39. Programs/grants for which this project would qualify While an interest free loan from OPWC might be possible, we are not aware of another program or grant that would fund this project.

Community Details

40. Community Need Given the high demand for housing in general, and the specific interest in Yellow Springs given its livability/walkability, local housing prices have skyrocketed and long-time community members are being priced out of the Village. Additionally, our local workforce is generally unable to live in town due to lack of availability, which drives extremely high costs. Approximately 1200 people (33% of population) live outside of Yellow Springs and commute to work in Yellow Springs every day. Increasing units – rentals and home ownership – is an important strategy for all municipalities, and Yellow Springs is uniquely positioned to accommodate a larger and diverse population given our local amenities, utility capacity and schools of excellence. The Village hired Bowen National Research to conduct a community-wide housing needs assessment, and the study was completed in 2018. This study indicates an immediate community need of 502 rental and for-sale units. With approximately 1,670 total households in Yellow Springs, this represents a housing need for 30% of our community members. In 2023, a housing production review was conducted and 18 subsidized units (rent and for-sale) were added from 2018-2023, while over 110 market-rate, for-sale units entered the market, continuing to highlight the community need for affordable housing units.

41. Previous Funding: Has the requesting organization received Congressionally earmarked funding in the past? If so, please provide a brief project description, year funded, amount, and Congressional sponsor. The Village of Yellow Springs has requested several earmarks, including for our Yellow Springs-Clifton Connector shared-use trail and Springs-Net municipal broadband projects, but these have typically been in years that while we were on the list, the earmark process did not move forward in the budget. Although not an earmark, we are currently implementing a $1.8 million federal surface transportation grant that is creating a multi-modal path along the main entrance to the Village with complementary traffic calming features. Additionally, Representative Turner, Senator Brown and Senator Vance have written letters in support of our RAISE grant application to develop the YS-Clifton Connector.

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45. Please explain how you determined the job creation listed in questions 42-44. {Empty}

46. Using your best guess, of the jobs created over the next 10 years, what will the average salary be? {Empty}

47. Is your project a workforce development program? {Empty}

48. If yes, does your program center on one of the ten JobsOhio targeted industries? {Empty}

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Additional Details

50. Letters of endorsement, supporting materials, additional information. You can submit ONE PDF file that does not exceed 10 pages. {Empty}

51. Is there opposition to the project? No

52. Name of person filling out this form. Brian Housh

53. Telephone number of person filling out this form. 9377769566

54. Email of person filling out this form. This is where notification will be sent that the form was received. brianhoush@vil.yellowsprings.oh.us

55. Do you want your project to be considered as a Community Project in the fiscal year 2025 –2026 State Capital Budget Bill? Yes

56. If your project type is on the list of ineligible projects (see above), please offer an explanation why your project could be eligible. If your project is not on the list, answer the question by stating that your project is not on the list of ineligible projects. This project is eligible for a state capital appropriation because its focus is on developing affordable/workforce housing units to address the high demand for residential options in the Village of Yellow Springs, which unmet adversely affects residents and workers in our region while limiting economic growth and quality of life. While the major component of the project is a sewer line replacement, the focus of the initiative is to develop highly needed workforce/affordable housing stock.

57. Has your organization received state capital budget funding in the past? If so, provide a brief project description, year funded, and amount. Yes, we received a $25,000 capital appropriation in FY2019-20 to support development of our Yellow Springs-Clifton Connector Trail project, and the Village of Yellow Springs has also support local institutions such as the Glen Helen Nature Preserve and WYSO in securing state capital appropriations.

58. Does your project have a connection with, or provide some benefit to, a state agency that has bonding authority? Please check all that apply from the following list: Department of Developmental Disabilities, Department of Commerce

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