APRIL 14, 2022
CITY COUNCIL/PLANNING COMMISSION WORKSHOP AGENDA
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Pursuant to Section 54956 of the California Government Code, a special joint meeting for a workshop of the
City Council and the Planning Commission
is hereby called for:
6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, 2022
Immediately following the staff presentation,
public comment will be taken.
WORKSHOP
1. Call to Order/Roll Call: A Workshop of the City Council and Planning Commission
2. Introduction of the 2023-2031 Housing Element Update and 6th Cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation, and community engagement opportunities. (Alexis Morris/Jennifer Hagen)
3. Adjournment
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JOINT WORKSHOP AGENDA ITEM NO. 2
Meeting Date: April 14, 2022
Subject Title: Introduction of the 2023-2031 Housing Element Update and 6th Cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation process, including review of the draft Community Engagement Plan and report on the status of the current (5th Cycle) Housing Element, as well as overview of recent changes to Housing Element law
Prepared By: Jennifer Hagen, Senior Planner
Submitted By: Alexis Morris, Community Development Director Erik Nolthenius, Planning Manager
PURPOSE AND RECOMMENDATION
This introductory workshop serves as an official launch for the Housing Element Update and includes an introduction to Kimley-Horn, who will be assisting staff with this effort. The workshop will provide for public comments, staff presentation, and the City Council and Planning Commission discussion on an overview of the Housing Element Update process, including an update on the 6th Cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process, a report on status of the current (5th Cycle) Housing Element, and changes to Housing Element law since the last update.
PREVIOUS ACTION
The City Council authorized execution of an agreement for consulting services with Kimley-Horn to assist with the 2023-2031 (6th RHNA Cycle) Housing Element Update on October 12, 2021.
BACKGROUND
What is a Housing Element?
The Housing Element is one of seven mandated elements of the City’s General Plan and is a comprehensive statement by the community of its current and future housing needs and proposed actions to facilitate the provision of housing to meet those needs at all income levels.
Rising housing costs are not just a statewide or regional issue, but directly impact Brentwood residents and those faced with rising housing prices and increased incidence of homelessness.
Periodic updating of the Housing Element is required by State law; and thus, the Element reflects the State’s housing goal of "attaining decent housing and a suitable living environment for every California family," as well as incorporating the unique concerns of the community. The current Housing Element, which was adopted by the City Council and certified by the State in 2015, covers the planning period from 2015 to 2022 (the 5th Cycle). The next Housing Element Update (the 6th Cycle) must be adopted by January 2023, to address the period from 2023- 2031.
State law establishes a series of very specific requirements as to the scope, content, and process by which a Housing Element is updated and adopted, including review and approval 2 (known as certification) by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
Unlike the majority of the other required General Plan elements, the Housing Element must include very specific information to pass legal muster. In accordance with State law, Brentwood’s Housing Element must look at housing trends, zoning and market constraints, and evaluate various approaches to meeting housing needs across income levels. The inventory of available sites, or “Sites Inventory,” will be a key component of a Housing Element in which the City must identify land zoned for housing to meet the RHNA. Local governments must involve the public from all economic segments of the community in developing the Housing Element; a robust public outreach plan is discussed in this memo and is anticipated to be a key component of the project.
What Are the Components of a Housing Element?
State law defines the required content of the Housing Element, with key components including:
1. Housing Needs Assessment: Examine demographic, employment and housing trends and conditions that affect the housing needs of the community.
2. Evaluation of Past Performance: Review the prior Housing Element to measure progress in implementing policies and programs.
3. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH): Review to ensure that City regulations, programs and activities affirmatively further fair housing, and create meaningful actions, in addition to combating discrimination, that overcome patterns of segregation and foster inclusive communities free from barriers that restrict access to opportunity based on protected characteristics.
4. Housing Sites Inventory: Identify locations of available sites for housing development or redevelopment to ensure that there is adequate capacity to address the RHNA.
5. Community Outreach and Engagement: Implement a robust community outreach and engagement program, with a particular focus on outreach to traditionally underrepresented groups.
6. Constraints Analysis: Analyze and recommend remedies for existing and potential governmental and nongovernmental barriers to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing for all income levels. The analysis must specifically determine whether local regulatory standards impose an actual constraint on housing development and show local efforts to remove constraints that may hinder the City from meetings its housing needs.
7. Policies and Programs: Establish policies and programs to fulfill the identified housing needs.
During the Housing Element Update, the City Council, Planning Commission, and the public will have the ability to provide input on each key project milestone.
The timely development and implementation of a Housing Element Update is essential to avoid the serious ramifications that come from failing to do so. Among these consequences could be the inability of the City to qualify for certain state or federal funding programs for transportation, infrastructure, and housing; shortened deadlines for completing any necessary rezones associated with Housing Element Law compliance; and findings that the City is not in substantial compliance with the Housing Element Law pending any required rezoning.
Annual Progress Report and Progress Towards RHNA
Each year, the City is required to provide an Annual Progress Report (APR) to the State, which reports housing unit production compared to RHNA targets, as well as describes the status of the various policies and programs included in the Housing Element. The report was presented 3 to the City Council at its March 22nd meeting. Table 1 summarizes the RHNA and the overall production of housing for the current cycle. In the current (5th) cycle, 74 affordable (very low-, low- and moderate-income) units have been produced thus far, which is about 15 percent of the total affordable allocation of 481 units.
Table 1: Current Cycle (2015-2023) RHNA Progress
Income Level RHNA
Allocation 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
Units
Total
Remaining
Very Low
DR
234 - - 2 - - - 2
4 230
NDR - - - - - - -
Low DR
124
5 3 - - - - - 11 113
NDR - - - - 3 - -
Moderate
DR
123 - - - - - - - 59 64
NDR - - 1 22 - 20 16
AboveModerate 279 449 540 503 323 321 268 724 3,128 -
Total RHNA 760
Total Units 454 543 506 345 324 288 742 3,202 407
DR = Deed Restricted
NDR = Not Deed Restricted
Key Changes in Housing Element Law
In recent years, the State has adopted significant new housing-related legislation, which will influence and shape the upcoming Housing Element Update. These include but are not limited to:
· Housing Crisis Act (SB 330) - Makes changes to land use and zoning law to encourage housing production, by limiting the scope of local review of housing projects to objective standards only for qualifying projects; limiting the ability of cities to change the general plan land use designation, specific plan land use designation, or zoning to a less intensive use or reduce the intensity of land use within an existing general plan land use designation, specific plan land use designation, or zoning district below that which was in effect on January 1, 2018; limiting the number of public hearings for projects; and shortening review timeframes.
· Streamlined Ministerial Approval Process (SB 35) - Requires a streamlined ministerial approval process for development in cities that have not yet made sufficient progress towards their allocation of their RHNA. Eligible developments must include a specified level of affordability, be on an infill site, comply with existing residential and mixed-use general plan or zoning provisions, and comply with other requirements. · Adequate Housing Element Sites (AB 1397) - Strengthens local governments’ obligation to identify a supply of adequate sites available to meet their share of regional housing needs at all income levels.
· Accessory Dwelling Units (Multiple bills) – In recent years, the State has facilitated the development of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) by adopting and updating laws limiting local regulation of this housing type. These may be counted toward a local agency’s RHNA through the processes established by HCD. · No Net Loss (SB 166) - Requires jurisdictions to maintain adequate sites to always accommodate its remaining regional housing needs allocation throughout the housing element planning period, rather than only at adoption.
4 · Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing - AFFH (AB 686) - Requires Housing Elements to demonstrate the local jurisdiction is affirmatively furthering fair housing. Specifically, AFFH requires taking meaningful actions that, taken together:
o Address significant disparities in housing needs and in access to opportunity o Replace segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns
o Transform racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and
o Foster and maintain compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws. · Housing Element Enforcement (AB 72) - Allows HCD to review any action or lack of action by a jurisdiction that is allegedly inconsistent with its housing element. HCD can revoke housing element compliance and notify the Attorney General.
The new legislation has reinforced local governments’ obligation to identify a supply of adequate sites available to meet their RHNA share at all income levels. Further, under the rubric of No Net Loss, it requires jurisdictions to maintain adequate sites to continuously accommodate their remaining RHNA throughout the Housing Element planning period, instead of only at adoption.
Therefore, a site that is zoned for a certain number of units must provide that number of units at the allocated affordability level; if a development project is approved for a fewer number of units the remaining number of units must be allocated to a different site, resulting in “no net loss” of units.
In addition, the State laws require additional analysis of AFFH and fair housing and segregation, placing a greater obligation on the City to demonstrate that the City is affirmatively furthering fair housing. This will require a large amount of staff and consultant time and effort to demonstrate that our outreach efforts are going beyond simply giving the public an opportunity to provide input and will be proactive and broadly conducted through a variety of methods to assure access and participation. In a growing effort by the state to increase accountability and enforcement of these new state laws and to better address the housing needs of Californians, as part of the 2021-2022 state budget, HCD increased its accountability efforts and formed the Housing Accountability Unit (HAU). The HAU will be in charge of holding jurisdictions accountable for their housing element commitments, as well as with other state housing laws.
Violations of these state laws may lead to consequences including revocation of housing element certification and/or referral to the California Office of the Attorney General. 6th Cycle RHNA Process and Status
As part of the Housing Element update, HCD requires each jurisdiction in the state to demonstrate capacity to meet their local “fair share” of the assigned Regional Housing Needs Determination (RHND), including total housing units across a series of affordability categories.
The RHNA is then determined and assigned through a process led by HCD and regional Councils of Governments (for the Bay Area, this is ABAG/MTC). The City of Brentwood has been allocated a total of 1,522 units for the upcoming cycle.
Table 2 summarizes the current RHNA in comparison to 5th Cycle allocations. As the estimate shows, the projection would more than double the number of units assigned in the current cycle.
Compared to the 5th Cycle, Very-Low and Low-income allocations together increase by 276 units, and the Above-Moderate income category by 362 units. 5 Table 2: 6th Cycle RHNA and Comparison to 5th Cycle
5th Cycle RHNA
(2015-2022)
6th Cycle RHNA
(2023-2031)
Category Units Units Comparison
to Cycle 5
Very Low 234 402 +168
Low 124 232 +108
Moderate 123 247 +124
Above-Moderate 279 641 +362
TOTAL 760 1,522 +762
DISCUSSION
Housing Element Process and Schedule
The Housing Element Update began in November 2021, and will be drafted throughout 2022 and early 2023. It will reflect a robust process with significant engagement with the public, key stakeholders, the City Council and the Planning Commission throughout, to ensure a community-wide conversation about housing policy, future housing sites, and strategies and actions to meet the City’s assigned RHNA. Staff and the consultant have been diligently working on the extensive outreach efforts that are ready to be launched to seek initial input on the Housing Element Update, including this initial community meeting/joint workshop with the City Council and Planning Commission, communication with key stakeholders (such as housing developers and community services providers), and an online community survey.
A simplified schedule with key dates is shown in Table 3 below. Initial steps in the process began in November 2021. As the project proceeds through the summer, there will be an extensive review of existing housing conditions, policies, and programs for inclusion in the Housing Element. Critical to the process will be the sites inventory, whereby sites to accommodate the City’s RHNA allocation will be analyzed. Following completion of the sites analysis, the public review draft of the Housing Element will be created, and taken through a review process that incorporates a required review by HCD, as well as input from the City Council and Planning Commission.
Table 3: Project Schedule
Task Month
Introductory Kick-Off Meeting with City Council and
Planning Commission
April 2022
Community Survey April 2022
Prepare Technical Studies, Housing Needs,
Constraints and Resources Baseline Review
February – May 2022
Stakeholder and Focused Community Outreach May-June 2022 Community Workshop - Land Use Strategies and
Housing Policies
May-June 2022
Start of Public Review Draft 30-Day Review Period* June - July 2022 Start of HCD 90-Day Review Period August - September 2022 Public Hearings to adopt Housing Element December 2022 - January 2023 * New this cycle, if any comments are received during the Public Review Period, the City must take at least 10 business days to consider and incorporate public comments. 6 Housing Element Public Engagement Plan
Staff and Kimley-Horn have prepared a Community Engagement Plan that outlines several outreach activities over the duration of the Project. Currently, the Engagement Plan describes the majority of the outreach activities as virtual events given the COVID-19 restrictions that were in place at the onset of the Housing Element Update process. Although the majority of the activities are currently described as virtual, staff is in discussion with Kimley-Horn regarding how future activities may transition to in-person. Since the current contract with Kimley-Horn did not include in-person appearances, and since their staff is based in different regions throughout the State, staff is evaluating whether an additional contract amendment may be required to accommodate in-person meetings. Community outreach efforts have now begun and will continue through the adoption of the Housing Element Update in 2023. The public will have many opportunities to obtain information and provide input in a variety of ways, including:
• Project website;
• Community workshops;
• Informational handouts;
• Housing Element Public Review Draft;
• City Council and Planning Commission Joint Sessions; and • Final Public Hearings with Planning Commission and City Council.
The Engagement Plan identifies dedicated community meetings, held in a workshop format, to provide information and seek broad community input in the process. The outreach activities have been designed to engage a wide representation of the Brentwood community. The Engagement Plan includes efforts to target the engagement of community members who have not traditionally participated in community outreach events and may be harder to reach.
Creative methods to engage senior citizens, those for whom English is not their first language, persons with limited access to technology, those living in disadvantaged areas, and other underrepresented groups in Brentwood will be included in the Engagement Plan.
Outreach and Communication Tools
The Housing Element Update website will serve as the primary medium through which community members access information and project documents and learn about the Housing Element Update. The website will be user-friendly and updated regularly to include content that will reflect public engagement opportunities as they are scheduled and material available for public review. The website has been created with a project-specific URL to identify with the project: BrentwoodHousingElement.com
The website will allow a convenient access point for interested parties to sign up to be notified about future meetings and upcoming events and will include pages dedicated to public engagement, project documents, and “Frequently Asked Questions.” In addition, the website will provide opportunities for interactive involvement through an on-line survey and other tools.
These will occur alongside more traditional methods of outreach such as press releases, print media, and other publicity.
The project website and most outreach materials for the community meetings will also be provided in English and Spanish, with opportunities for Spanish-speaking engagement during each meeting through interpretation services for all virtual meetings and/or in-person meetings.
If the City Council determines that other language translation is appropriate, this can be accommodated. Although translation services were not fully scoped as part of the Housing Element Update contract with Kimley-Horn, funding for initial translation services have been identified. Funding for the remainder of the translation services planned for is currently being 7 evaluated. All Project materials, recordings, and summaries will be provided on the Project website for community accessibility as well.
To aid in soliciting participation from disadvantaged communities, the City is in the process of identifying interested parties and stakeholders to be regularly engaged, as well as to aid in soliciting participation from their organizations and members. City staff will then continue to communicate and engage with participating community members and stakeholders throughout the update process including notification of all public meetings and hearings.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no financial impact anticipated as a result of this initial discussion. The cost of the update was included as part of the adopted 2021/22 – 2025/26 Capital Improvement Program which included the Housing Element Update (CIP Project No. 337-37258) with subsequent amendment to the 2021/22 Operating Budget approved by the City Council on October 12, 2021.
Attachment A - “What is a Housing Element?” (English and Spanish versions), based on ABAG Regional Technical Assistance
State law does not require that
jurisdictions build or finance new housing,
but they must plan for it.
Every city in California receives a target
number of homes to plan for. This is
called the Regional Housing Needs
Allocation or RHNA.
The state of California determines the
number of new homes the Bay Area
needs to plan for – and how affordable
those homes need to be – in order to
meet the housing needs of people at all
income levels.
The Association of Bay Area
Governments convened diverse
stakeholders in a Housing Methodology
Committee to distribute the region’s
housing allocation to each jurisdiction in
the Bay Area.
Housing elements must be updated every
eight years and must be certified by the
California Department of Housing and
Community Development.
A Housing Element is a local plan, adopted
by a city, town or county that includes the
goals, policies and programs that direct
decision-making around housing.
All jurisdictions in the Bay Area must
update their Housing Element for the 2023-
2031 planning period. Local jurisdictions
look at housing trends, zoning and market
constraints, and evaluate various
approaches to meeting housing needs
across income levels.
The Inventory of Available Sites, or “Sites
Inventory,” is a key component of a
Housing Element where jurisdictions
identify if they have enough land zoned for
housing to meet the future need.
Local governments must involve the public
from all economic segments of the
community in developing the Housing
Element.
What is a
Housing Element?
A Housing Element is how local jurisdictions plan to meet the housing needs of everyone in the community. At its core a Housing Element is an opportunity to have a community conversation about how to address local housing challenges and find solutions. The Housing Element is one important part of a city or county’s General Plan, which serves as the blueprint for how a city or county will grow and address changing needs for development. Every eight years, every city, town and county must update their Housing Element and have it certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
Source: ABAG Regional Technical Assistance
The Housing Element typically includes:
1. Housing Needs Assessment: Examine demographic, employment and housing trends and conditions that affect the housing needs of the community.
2. Evaluation of Past Performance: Review the prior Housing Element to measure progress in implementing policies and programs.
3. Housing Sites Inventory: Identify locations of available sites for housing development or redevelopment to ensure that there is adequate capacity to address the Regional Housing Needs Allocation.
4. Community Outreach and Engagement: Implement a robust community outreach and engagement program, with a particular focus on outreach to traditionally underrepresented groups.
5. Constraints Analysis: Analyze and recommend remedies for existing and potential governmental and nongovernmental barriers to housing development.
6. Policies and Programs: Establish policies and programs to fulfill the identified housing needs.
What Happens if a Jurisdiction Does Not Adopt a Housing Element? If a city does not comply with State law, it can be sued. In addition to facing significant fines, a court may limit local land use decision-making authority until the jurisdiction brings its Housing Element into compliance. Additionally, local governments may lose the right to deny certain projects. These and other consequences are established in state law; Housing Elements are subject to regulatory oversight by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. ABAG does not play a direct role in regulating local Housing Elements.
What are the
Components of a
Housing Element?
Source: ABAG Regional Technical Assistance
La ley estatal no obliga a las jurisdicciones a
construir o a financiar nuevas viviendas, sin
embargo, deben planificarlas.
Cada ciudad en California recibe un número
objetivo de hogares que debe planificar. A
esto se le llama Asignación Regional de
Vivienda Necesaria (RHNA, por sus siglas en
inglés).
El estado de California determina el número
de hogares que el Área de la Bahía necesita
planificar, y qué tan accesibles en precio
esos hogares necesitan ser, para poder
cumplir con las necesidades de vivienda de
las personas a todo nivel de ingreso.
La Asociación de Gobiernos del Área de la
Bahía convocó a una variedad de partes
interesadas en un Comité de Metodología de
Viviendas para distribuir la asignación de
viviendas de la región a cada jurisdicción en el
Área de la Bahía.
Los elementos de vivienda deben
actualizarse cada ocho años y deben ser
certificados por el Departamento de Vivienda
y Desarrollo Comunitario de California.
Un Elemento de Vivienda es un plan local,
aprobado por una ciudad, pueblo o condado,
que incluye las metas, las políticas y los
programas que dirigen la toma de decisiones
en temas de vivienda.
Todas las jurisdicciones en el Área de la Bahía
deben actualizar su Elemento de Vivienda
para el período de planificación 2023-2031.
Las jurisdicciones locales analizan tendencias
de vivienda, la zonificación y limitaciones del
mercado, y evalúan diversos enfoques para
satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda para
personas de todos los niveles de ingresos.
El Inventario de sitios disponibles (Inventory of
Available Sites), o "Inventario de Sitios", es un
componente clave de un Elemento de
Vivienda en el que las jurisdicciones
identifican si tienen suficientes terrenos
zonificados para viviendas para satisfacer la
necesidad futura.
Los gobiernos locales deben invitar la
participación del público de todos los
segmentos económicos de la comunidad
durante el desarrollo del Elemento de
Vivienda.
¿Qué es un Elemento
de Vivienda (Housing
Element)?
Un Elemento de Vivienda es la manera en que las jurisdicciones locales planean cómo satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda de todos los miembros de la comunidad.
Fundamentalmente, un Elemento de Vivienda es una oportunidad para tener una conversación con la comunidad sobre cómo abordar los retos locales de vivienda y encontrar soluciones. El Elemento de Vivienda es una parte importante del Plan General de una ciudad o condado, que sirve como proyecto de cómo una ciudad o condado crecerá y abordará las necesidades cambiantes de desarrollo. Cada ocho años, cada ciudad, pueblo y condado debe actualizar su Elemento de Vivienda y obtener la certificación del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Comunitario de California.
Source: ABAG Regional Technical Assistance
El Elemento de Vivienda suele incluir:
1. Evaluación de las necesidades de vivienda: Examinación de las tendencias y condiciones demográficas, de empleo y de vivienda que afectan las necesidades de vivienda en la comunidad.
2. Evaluación de desempeño anterior: Analizar el Elemento de Vivienda anterior para medir el progreso de implementación de políticas y programas.
3. Inventario de los sitios de vivienda: Identificar la ubicación de los sitios disponibles para el desarrollo o la renovación de viviendas para garantizar que haya una capacidad adecuada para abordar la Asignación Regional de Vivienda Necesaria.
4. Divulgación y participación comunitaria: Implementar un programa sólido de divulgación de información y participación comunitaria, con un enfoque particular en la participación de los grupos tradicionalmente subrepresentados.
5. Análisis de las limitaciones: Analizar y recomendar soluciones para las barreras gubernamentales y no gubernamentales existentes y potenciales en el desarrollo de viviendas.
6. Políticas y programas: Establecer políticas y programas para satisfacer las necesidades de vivienda identificadas.
¿Qué sucede si una jurisdicción no adopta un Elemento de Vivienda? Si una ciudad no cumple con la ley estatal, se le puede demandar. Además de hacerse acreedor de multas significativas, la ciudad podría ver limitada por un tribunal su autoridad en la toma de decisiones sobre el uso del suelo local, hasta que la jurisdicción cumpla con su Elemento de Vivienda. Asimismo, los gobiernos locales pueden perder el derecho a rechazar determinados proyectos. Estas y otras consecuencias están establecidas en la legislación estatal; los Elementos de Vivienda están sujetos a la supervisión normativa del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Comunitario de California. La ABAG no tiene un rol directo en la regulación de los Elementos de Vivienda locales.
¿Cuáles son los
componentes de un
Elemento de Vivienda?
Source: ABAG Regional Technical Assistance