Council declines to move resolution for Calder Avenue tax-credit project

Council did not act on an item that would have expressed the city’s support for a tax‑credit application for a proposed multifamily project at 7155 Calder Avenue. After staff read the item, the chair stated, “No motion, then, item fails for lack of a motion.”

The project drew public attention earlier in the meeting. An applicant representative identified in public comment as affiliated with Woda Cooper Development described the proposed mixed‑income Mower Flats project and said the team had met with neighborhood groups. A resident speaker raised concerns about online complaints and past litigation targeting some large affordable‑housing managers and questioned Beaumont’s high per‑capita concentration of tax‑credit supported units.

Because council did not move the resolution of support, the transcript records no further council action on this item. The absence of a motion means the applicant cannot include a council resolution of local support in an HTC application based on this meeting’s outcome; the applicant may return to a future council meeting or proceed without the city resolution if permitted by the state application schedule.