Rep. Sam Farr praises housing plan



Rep. Sam Farr praises housing plan

Rep. Sam Farr praises housing plan

Aproposal by Carmel Valley golf course operator Nick Lombardo to build a housing project with 50 percent low-cost units on part of his golf complex drew praise Friday from Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel.

Farr recently met with developers of the proposed 280-unit Rancho Cañada Village subdivision and came away impressed with its plan to replace a golf course with equal numbers of market-rate and low-cost homes.

"While some in local government have squabbled over the idea of housing developments with 20 percent affordable (housing), Rancho Cañada, with its 50 percent affordable housing ratio, shows that where there's a will there's a way," Farr said in a press release.

Lombardo is leading a development group proposing a subdivision on 72 of the 271 acres in his Carmel Valley golf complex.

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