Comprehensive permit for low and moderate income housing

(a) Generally. All applications for comprehensive permits to build low and moderate income housing shall be reviewed in accordance with the applicable provisions of RIGL tit. 45, ch. 53, as amended, the Low and Moderate Income Housing Act. The planning commission shall have the authority to issue a comprehensive permit for a low and moderate income housing project pursuant to the applicable provisions of RIGL tit. 45, ch. 53.
(b) Application fees. The application fee for a comprehensive permit application shall be equal to the fee for the most analogous fee required in chapter 9 of the Revised Ordinances of the town as determined by the director of planning and development.
(c) Limitation on applications. Pursuant to RIGL § 45-53-4(4)(xii) as the town has an approved affordable housing plan and at such time as the town is meeting housing needs as that term is defined in RIGL § 44-53-3(10), as amended, the annual number of dwelling units in comprehensive permit applications from for-profit developers may be limited to an aggregate of one percent of the total number of year-round housing units in the town, as recognized in the affordable housing plan and notwithstanding the timetables set forth elsewhere in this section, the planning commission shall have the authority to consider comprehensive permit applications from for-profit developers, which are made pursuant to this paragraph, sequentially in the order in which they are submitted.

(Ord. No. 06-05, § 3, 4-10-2006)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 06-05, § 3, adopted April 10, 2006, amended the Code by repealing former § 21-16 in its entirety, and adding a new § 21-16. Former § 21-16 pertained to administrative procedures for special exceptions for low- and moderate-income housing; and derived from Ord. No. 94-12, adopted June 27, 1994; and Ord. No. 03-13, adopted September 8, 2003.