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Harrisonburg Explores Options For Developing Housing On City Owned Land

Affordable Housing
The City of Harrisonburg has been working for the past year on exploring how two City-owned properties might be developed to provide future affordable housing solutions. 
The first site is an 8.59 acre parcel located on Neff Avenue that would likely allow for the development of either (72) townhomes or up to (200) apartments.  Here is an illustration of a potential townhome layout...

Neff Avenue
The second site is an 8.13 acre parcel on Central Avenue that would likely allow for the development of (36) single family homes, (51) townhomes or up to (133) apartments.  Here is an illustration of a potential single family home layout...

Central Avenue
Click here to download the full memorandum from Land Planning and Design Associates, Inc. who prepared a detailed technical memorandum outlining opportunities, constraints, possible development solutions and affordable housing solutions.  The memorandum also include multiple other renderings of potential development plans for these sites.
  

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