Nonprofit Pulls Proposal to Build Affordable Housing
May 3, 2021
A.H. of Monroe County, a social services organization based in Key West, Fla., has withdrawn a proposal to build an affordable housing development, according to
Keys Weekly. Under the terms of the proposal, A.H. of Monroe would have constructed between 80 and 100 units within Key West’s Truman Waterfront.
The proposal had received support from a majority of city commissioners. But members of the Bahama Village Redevelopment Advisory Committee, which advises the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, raised objections because the proposal had not been part of a competitive bidding process,
State House representatives have removed the requirement from a proposed bill that would have ordered boat owners anchored or moored off the Florida Keys to move their vessels every 90 days if they were not moored in a regulated mooring field.
HB 639, and its Senate companion bill, SB 1068, included the 90-day requirement to help prevent Keys vessels from becoming derelict and sinking, which has become an expensive problem for the Monroe County government.
The 90-day provision remains in the Senate version of the state bill, which the Senate has passed. Also in the Senate version is a provision that before the law be enacted 300 new moorings be placed within a mile of Key West, 250 new ones and adding 50 to the City of Key Westâs mooring field.