{"id":2978,"date":"2010-10-14T05:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2010-10-14T10:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:14:57","slug":"morning-read-saranac-lake-says-no-to-affordable-housing-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/14\/morning-read-saranac-lake-says-no-to-affordable-housing-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Saranac Lake says no to affordable housing grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Daily Enterprise and the Plattsburgh Press-Republican are both reporting on the decision by Saranac Lake&#8217;s village board to reject a $400,000 Federal grant for an affordable housing project.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x2112603048\/Saranac-Lake-rejects-federal-housing-money\">Press-Republican<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adirondack Housing Development Chairman Allan Dunham was floored by the decision.<\/p>\n<p>It means, he said Wednesday, that the housing project is dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were just stunned, just flabbergasted,\u201d Dunham told the Press-Republican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project was valued overall at $1.2 million.\u00a0 But critics on the village board say they don&#8217;t want more non-profit housing in the village.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/520846\/Housing-grant-voted-down.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just think it&#8217;s time we say no to not-for-profits,&#8221; [village trustee Jeff] Branch said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve all talked about it. It&#8217;s time we do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Village trustee Allie] Pelletieri  said he pledged to take a stand against allowing any more tax-exempt  property in the village when he ran for trustee earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tax-exempt property is just overwhelming in this village,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That was my platform, and I&#8217;m sticking to it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Supporters of the project point out that the property was already owned by a non-profit; they say they also offered to make a Payment In Lieu of Taxes Payment to offset the project&#8217;s non-profit status.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Enough with the non-profits in our towns?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Daily Enterprise and the Plattsburgh Press-Republican are both reporting on the decision by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}