Jeff Leatherwood
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Homeless Aggies!!!
March 27th, 2008 Categories: Market Trends, Texas A&M University
Much angst and uncertainty has developed in anticipation of city review of an attempt to limit the number of unrelated people living together in one College Station residence.
Late next month the City of College Station is set to take up the issue of whether to pass a city ordinance restricting the number of unrelated people living in a single family dwelling. Student interest groups are already rallying against this action, even going so far as to create an online interest group boasting “BTHO Housing Ordinance — GIG THE VOTE!…”
THIS IS NOT A NEW ISSUE!!! In fact a very similar ordinance has already passed in neighboring Bryan.
In Bryan a specific neighborhood can pass a petition and with a 2/3 vote can elect to be a member of the “Neighborhood Conservation Act”. However, if a property’s primary use by it’s owner at the time the act is passed is as a student rental, occupying tenants from multiple family’s, then the act could not change that, and the home could continue to be rented and even sold and continued to be used as a rental until it’s primary use changed.
However, with the unlikelihood that student prominent areas will be able to get a 2/3 vote, coupled with the “Grandfather Clause” make this much less intense of an issue for students. Rest easy students… Be sure to check with you Century 21 Beal, Inc. agent about your neighborhood, or inquire at www.BuyAggieland.com
“limit the number of unrelated people living together in one College Station residence”, what are people thinking? Surely the City of College Station that was built around the student population and thrives on the money from the Aggies and Blinn students can find a way to work WITH STUDENTS & homeowners rather than just making new laws. I don’t have an answer but I know that with the current economy the last thing we need to do is put more hardships on someone trying to rent their property.
It will never fly.
Anything new on this issue? I think the student housing issue will appear again in College Station after the City Council elections.