Housing ordinance would, in fact, have flexibility

TO THE EDITOR:

Regarding your editiorial “No ordinance needed,” (Feb. 4): You could not be more wrong. Your grasp of the facts and issues involved in the review process, the subsidy costs of affordable housing and “penalty” approach of the current negotiation process is amazing.

Most of the flexibility you think the ordinance will not permit, in fact is wrong. Flexibility to craft good solutions is the centerpiece of the ordinance.

 As a Inclusionary Task Force member and 20 year practitioner of creating equitable affordable housing ordinances, I expected better from the only local newspaper left in Chapel Hill.

Scott Radway
Former Chairman
Planning Board and Community Design Commission
Chapel Hill