Apartment Choice

When it comes to getting new apartments built, San Diego is the 11th worst city in the nation, said a national study released Monday . Fifty cities were ranked on specific factors, including local regulations and land available for development, that were determined to be critical to construction by trade groups such as the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association . Honolulu was ranked the most difficult market for building new apartments, and New Orleans was the easiest. Research gathered by Florida-based think tank Hoyt Advisory Services for the trade groups looked at the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulation Index, a survey of regulatory laws, and a method of mapping developable land created by Sumner La Croix of the University of Hawaii. It also used the U.S. Census and other data and market research. In California, San Francisco was deemed the hardest to get new supply built at No. 8. Los Angeles was No. 12, Riverside No. 13, Sacramento ...

AMHERST — A large apartment complex proposed for Route 9 at the Amherst- Hadley town line continues to move through the permitting processes in both communities, even as some residents express worry about the size of the project and how it could impact their neighborhood. Amherst Planning Director Christine Brestrup said people have raised several issues with the 131- apartment Aspen Heights residential community in both written comments and orally at a Zoning Board of Appeals hearing earlier this month. One of the most prominent concerns, Brestrup said, is whether people who live at the proposed complex , to be built at 408 Northampton Road, will drive through the Greenleaves Retirement Community and Windfield Family and Senior Estates. Because Northampton Road is a divided highway, those living at Aspen Heights will have to exit the complex by taking a right, heading east, Brestrup said. To travel west toward the shopping malls, the roads through Greenleaves and Windfield migh...

Plans for the controversial Lincoln Station apartment complex are now shelved after New Lenox village trustees let a motion for a third extension to the special use permit for the project die on the floor Monday night . New Lenox Development Company , LLC had requested another extension for its preliminary planned unit development for the 208-unit complex on 16 acres near the Metra Station but the motion to approve the request was not seconded at the board’s regular meeting. The village had approved the preliminary plan for the complex in August 2015, after almost a yearlong discussion and dissent from residents. In July of that year about 100 residents had attended a special townhall to discuss the project, the majority of whom opposed it. The board granted the PUD in August after NLDC agreed to cut the size of the complex from 312 to 208 units. NLDC had one year to come back to the board for approval of a final plan, however it received a six-month extension last August because it...