Jay Street Affordable Housing
New Name: Tanyard Branch Trace
Property Address: 110 Jay Street
Orange County PINs: 9788-99-9279, 9788-09-1257, 9788-09-1232
Zoning: Residential-Special Standards-Conditional Zoning District (R-SS-CZD)
Applicant: Town of Chapel Hill
Project Description: Two 3-story apartment buildings with a total of 48 units, a community center building and associated parking and pedestrian connectivity. The project is now known as Tanyard Branch Trace
Project Status: Zoning Compliance, Permitting & Construction
Application Materials
Follow links to materials in Chapel Hill's online permitting portal. Click the 'Files' tab that appears next to the 'Details' tab on each page.
Final Plans
More Information
The Tanyard Branch Trace project will include 48 new affordable housing units on Town land that was prioritized for affordable housing in 2018. The community is in close to transit and the Town’s greenway system and is within walking distance of a Town park and the Chapel Hill and Carrboro downtowns.
Goals for this project include:
- Provide housing affordable to a range of income levels with priority for units serving households earning 60% or less of Area Median Income.
- Maintain long-term affordability.
- Minimize need for Town funding through leverage of outside funding.
- Use environmentally-friendly and sustainable principles for development.
- Facilitate connections within the community and surround neighborhood.
Council approved a conditional zoning application for the project on April 27, 2022, which proposed 48 units of affordable rental housing and a community building on the site.
In August 2023, the project received a 9% Low-Income Housing Tax credit award that will bring more than $10 million to the project.
Find more information on the Community Home Trust's Tanyard Branch Trace project webpage.
How We Got Here
In June 2018, the Town Council prioritized three Town-owned sites for affordable housing and authorized the Town Manager to pursue affordable housing on those sites. Staff then worked with an engineering team to explore what type of development might be possible on those parcels. After staff presented the results of the feasibility analyses to Council in September 2019, Council indicated support for moving forward with planning for the Jay Street site.
In November 2019 Council authorized the Town Manager to seek an affordable housing partner with whom the Town could begin negotiating an agreement to prepare a proposed plan for the site. In February 2021, the Town entered into an Memorandum of Understanding with the Taft-Mills Group, working in collaboration with the Community Home Trust, to begin planning for the development of the Jay Street site.
Location
110 Jay Street, Chapel Hill, NC View Map
35.9196269,-79.0674501
110 Jay Street ,
Chapel Hill, NC
110 Jay Street ,
Chapel Hill, NC
Jay Street Affordable Housing