{"id":1335,"date":"2019-01-03T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbapierce.tacomawebsite.net\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2021-09-19T23:31:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:31:55","slug":"join-the-legislative-strategy-committee-mbas-attainable-housing-advocacy-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/join-the-legislative-strategy-committee-mbas-attainable-housing-advocacy-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Legislative Strategy Committee: MBA\u2019s Attainable Housing Advocacy Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Government Affairs program is an active participant in the policy and regulatory processes in Pierce County.&nbsp; Under the LSC\u2019s direction, the government affairs staff works to promote the following resolutions of Master Builders Association of Pierce County:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Removing regulatory and financial barriers to building affordable housing<\/li><li>Promoting smart growth<\/li><li>Advocating for government transparency in how permit and impact fees are calculated<\/li><li>Working with local jurisdictions to ensure high levels of services and timely issuance of permits<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, the LSC boasted many victories, including improved permit process timelines with the City of Tacoma, defeating a 500% proposed increase in Transportation Impact Fees in the City of Gig Harbor, and fending off a harmful School Impact Fee proposal in Pierce County which saved future homeowners throughout the county $2.8 million in the first year alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If you are interested in joining the LSC or getting on our emailing list, please contact Jessie Gamble at 253.254.0083 or <a href=\"mailto:jgamble@masterbuilderspierce.com\">jgamble@masterbuilderspierce.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Government Affairs program is an active participant in the policy and regulatory processes in Pierce County.&nbsp; Under the LSC\u2019s direction, the government affairs staff works to promote the following resolutions of Master Builders Association of Pierce County: Removing regulatory and financial barriers to building affordable housing Promoting smart growth Advocating for government transparency in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterbuilderspierce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}