Housing Element

 

Housing Element

 

Household Population is approaching an increase of approximately two hundred people over the years from 2010 to 2040. A growth of this nature may cause diversity in the type of housing to offered within Village limits. The Village has an aging population of baby boomers and cities throughout Wisconsin are seeing shortages of Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing Home facilities, as they begin to close. On the next page, the graph depicts our aging residents will remain steady over the next 20 years. New growth in the form of condominiums, apartment complexes, mini home communities, that could provide senior with much needed services offered by ADRC or Medicare and could even bring in new residents and job seekers.


Goal 1: Develop a range of housing choices for Edgar and the larger Edgar community.

Objective: Identify parcels in the village best suited for new residential subdivisions. Best suited parcels will allow the logical extension of village street grid and utilities.

Objective: Work with developers and public agencies to investigate Planned Unit Developments for possible senior and assisted living. Have the Planning Commission work with agencies such as Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development to come up with a plan.

WPHD says…. “Housing advocacy means changing the way people think about housing and neighborhoods and building strong coalitions to develop more effective policy and programs. We believe the whole community should share the responsibility of making sure their neighbors can afford a decent place to live” WHEDA, and Section 8.

Objective: Investigate alternatives other than mobile homes to provide affordable housing to low and moderate-income individuals.

 

 


Objective: Coordinate housing program with surrounding townships to best make use of Edgar infrastructure and to preserve productive farmland.

 

 

 

Policies

The Village of Edgar encourages future development to occur adjacent to existing developed areas, with logical extensions of village utilities and the village grid system as written in our Ordinance: Title 14, Chapter 1, Land Division and Subdivision Code.

The Village of Edgar will work with developers who are interested in developing senior and assisted living housing, who also wish to use a Planned Unit Development (PUD) format.

Strategies/Actions

  • Village ordinances were modernized August 15, 2021; ordinances will continue to be monitored and amended as necessary going forward
  • Investigate alternatives to provide affordable housing to low and moderate-income residents.
  • Coordinate with the Marathon County Housing Authority to develop affordable housing for low and moderate-income residents.
  • Coordinate with surrounding towns to preserve productive farmland and direct housing growth to the Village of Edgar.