Business View Civil Municipal June 2023

95 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 6 OT TUMWA , IOWA for their employees to purchase directly, so they can get into home ownership, as well.” “One thing that I think is unique is that we’re looking at a strategy around medium density in-fill housing development,” Simonson continues. “We’re going to allow folks to build to an approved site plan on any in-fill lot in the city at medium density. We’re working with 1919 Architects out of Illinois; they’re putting together some site plans for two, four, or even six-unit concepts that will fit on a residential in-fill lot, 50X120. And as long as you build an approved site plan, one that we’ve put together, you can put that development anywhere. “In addition, we’re going to pay for the full construction drawings, so that we can make design fees not a real factor for the developer, and we’re going to look at some incentives for the first few projects, as well. We know that getting financing for a new housing product is hard; the bank wants to look at ‘similar’ and there aren’t ‘similars’ for that type of thing. So we want to