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• Block Island Times: Cherry Hill Lane project moves toward bidding

  The Block Island Housing Board has begun to review design drawings for the five homes in the Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing development, the next step toward bringing the long-planned project to fruition.

• The Block Island Times: Cherry Hill Lane hearing continued

  Citing ongoing concerns from abutters living next to the proposed Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing subdivision, Planning Board Chair Margie Comings kept the public hearing open until the Board’s next meeting in May in order to give others a chance to comment on the project.

• The Block Island Times: Cherry Hill Lane construction underway

  Construction of the New Shoreham Housing Board’s Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing development project has received final approval and is now underway.

• The Block Island Times: Housing Board looking ahead

  Pleased by the favorable reception the Planning Board gave the Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing development on May 9, the members of the Block Island Housing Board turned toward implementing that project and others at their May 15 meeting.

• Block Island Times: Expanding eligibility for affordable housing

  The Block Island Housing Board is seeking to expand the affordable housing applicant pool on Block Island. In order to do so the board needs to do something that might seem counterintuitive; raising the island’s median income bracket. Increasing the medium income limit could provide more people on the island with the opportunity to apply for affordable housing.

• The Block Island Times: New affordable apartment units proposed

  One nearing the starting line, one in the works. With most of the approvals for the Cherry Hill Lane development lined up, the Block Island Housing Board turned to a new phase of that project, and learned about another planned affordable apartment project at its most recent meeting.