Venice: Habitat Issues …..council agenda item
Francesco Abbruzzino, The Uncensored Report, LLC
Issues with this South County group: In 2019 they presented to our council a plan to sell the land and take the money to South County to build housing for the low income. Our council voted 7/0 to reject taking Venice money out of our city to build homes in South County. Our area businesses have come to council in 2019 and asked for help on making affordable housing for their employees. They noted that the majority of their employees have to live in Northport and drive to Venice for their job.
Per their agenda letter they are asking council for the same thing. Sell the land and spend the money in South County Housing. I believe our council awarded them the land in 2014 to build housing for the Northeast businesses.
How can they come back after our 7/0 rejection? How can the city allow donated land for a needed purpose be sold and our taxpayer dollars be used outside our city?
Robert
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Below is a report on the issue and then below that report is an report covering the commercial property purchase, which Habitat is attributing to their request.