Title
Vote to approve the agreements between True Homes, LLC and Chatham County for the construction of a single-family residential structure upon county-owned property at 57 Camp Drive, Pittsboro, for the operations and provision of Transitional Housing services
Abstract
Introduction & Background: True Homes, LLC is a residential home builder with a presence across North Carolina. True Homes Foundation is the philanthropic arm of True Homes, LLC. One of the philanthropic programs True Homes has implemented is to build and give away one home for every 500 homes built in each of its markets - in this case the Raleigh/Triad market. In the past, True Homes has built homes for women's shelters, foster homes, and faith-based campus/organizations.
For its next 500 Homes project, True Homes sought to build a home in Chatham County with the goal of finding a partner organization that could use a home for their services and one that True Homes could also volunteer with as a long-term partnership. True Homes connected with Chatham County and Love Chatham, a transitional housing nonprofit service provider here in Chatham, to coordinate this next project. As a result, Chatham County was able to identify a county-owned lot suitable for a single-family residential structure that would be operated for transitional housing services by Love Chatham.
This lot is located at 57 Camp Drive in Pittsboro, which is adjacent and north of the Division of Social Services (DSS) parking lot and across from CORA food pantry. The True Homes project team has worked with the Town of Pittsboro to secure requisite zoning compliance and utility allocations to construct this project. With the lot being selected and approved for development, True Homes is ready to move into construction.
The intended structure of this public/private/nonprofit partnership is as follows:
* Chatham County will give permission to True Homes to construct the project upon the noted county property.
* Upon comp...
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