Kauneonga Lake

To the editor: 

The answer to adding more reasonably priced housing here in Sullivan County is through utilization of an existing NYS law that permits the construction of “Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)” with funds for the cost coming from Sullivan County Legislators finally sharing at least one-percent of sales tax revenue with its townships.

An additional benefit of allowing ADUs would be to provide senior citizens with extra income so they can afford to live in the homes where they raised their children. 

ADUs would have a minimum of 300 sq. ft. and maximum of !,000 sq. ft. with no more than two bedrooms. To fund the cost of winterizing senior citizen basements, attics, cabins, campers and recreational vehicles on their property, the shared sales tax revenue given townships would be used.

Additional apartments can be found by converting adjacent rooms in closed motels into one-bedroom apartments, each with its own kitchen, full bath and living room.

Sharing part of the county’s sales tax revenue will add reasonably priced apartments while keeping greedy developers from destroying our precious rural landscape.