The Lake View City Council meet last week for a special session to discuss the city’s involvement in ongoing and future residential housing projects in the community. Work on the Landing at East Shore, a 26-unit duplex neighborhood on E. Shore Drive, is nearly completed, but Administrator, Scott Peterson, says there are at least two more proposed developments.
Peterson adds a third development on the southern shore of Black Hawk Lake is also in the very early planning stages. He says replacing and expanding Lake View’s aging housing stock has been a top issue for city leaders for quite some time. However, each development comes with a cost to the city’s taxpayers to install infrastructure.
In addition to supplying infrastructure to undeveloped areas, Lake View also offers tax abatement programs. Peterson says the council’s concern is that some neighborhoods require more public investment than others.
Peterson says the special session was held to assist the council in developing a basic policy that would clearly define what the council would and would not do to facilitate the construction of new residential housing. No formal action was taken during the meeting, but Peterson indicated this is a topic that will return at future council sessions.
