population growth, with city officials implementing strategic measures to ensure sustainable development and diverse housing options for current and future residents. “We have over doubled our population in five years, which is significant.” Mashburn says. “What we are doing is taking a strategic look at the city and thinking who is coming in and who will be here in the future. We are revising our residential building standards right now to ensure that we have a diverse housing stock.” The city recently implemented a housing moratorium, though EDC-CDC Coordinator DeShawyna Walker clarifies its scope: “We have a housing moratorium, but what developers and companies coming in need to understand is that we have several hundred developments.When they hear the word“moratorium,” it sometimes causes a pause.They get nervous about the workforce, but they need to understand we have several hundred developments with several hundred units.” This pause allows Princeton to strategically 123 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 04 PRINCETON, TX
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