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Blue Cut Housing requests expansion Additional HUD funding and a waiting list for one-bedroom apartments, have spurred representatives from Blue Cut Housing Development Fund, Inc. to consider expansion. This week, they appeared before the Newark Planning and Zoning Boards to request an area variance to construct two additional buildings containing a total of 8 one-bedroom apartments. This project is an independent living facility for disabled adults, located in an R-2 district off Blue Cut Rd. Both the Planning and Zoning Boards expressed concern about what was considered a substantial variance - apartments planned as 540 sq. ft., whereas Newark village code specifies that the minimum size per unit be 850 sq. ft. The representative from Blue Cut Housing explained that HUD has a requirement that units be no larger than 540 sq. ft. The preliminary site plan was approved by the planning board, which recommended to the village board that they approve a waiver of sub division. Both Planning and Zoning boards, however, denied an area variance to allow the 540 sq. ft. apartments. Blue Cut Housing indicated that, with the denial in hand, they would probably be able to get a waiver from HUD to allow them to construct 850 sq. ft. apartments.
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