St. Helena’s biggest affordable housing project in 30 years was quietly approved last Friday after no public hearings and no public opposition.
Now the applicants just need to figure out how to pay for it.
Forty apartments, ranging from one to three bedrooms, will be built on a 1.8-acre property east of Highway 29 across from Vintage Hall. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is currently using the land as a staging area.
The project is a collaboration between two nonprofits: Our Town St Helena and Burbank Housing Development Corp. of Santa Rosa. In 2022 the applicants secured an option to buy the property from the Joseph Phelps family for $1 million. The family subsequently reduced the purchase price to $0, in effect making it a donation.
Read the full story in the Napa Valley Register.
