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2021-2029 Housing Element: Housing Plan
Housing Program:
Categories/Goals
Description
i. Existing Housing and
Neighborhood
Conditions
Programs under this category are targeted towards
investing in local neighborhoods and maintaining and
preserving properties to create housing opportunities
for all economic segments of the community.
Specifically, the programs under this category
include:
• Neighborhood Revitalization/Community
Building;
o Committed Assistance;
• Community Preservation Program;
• Preserve and Protect Existing Housing and
Tenants; and
• Rental Assistance Vouchers.
These programs focus on maintaining existing
residential neighborhoods, while providing affordable
housing opportunities for lower income households.
(Attachment 3: Housing Element Plan, Pgs. 1-104 to
1-106)
ii. Adequate Housing
Sites
Adequate housing sites includes programs that will
ensure provision of sites for housing development to
meet the City’s RHNA requirements for the 2021-
2 029 planning period. The programs under this
category include:
• Housing Opportunity Sites and Rezone
Program;
• Promotion and Monitoring of Accessory
Dwelling Units (ADUs);
• Monitoring No Net Loss and development on
sites from prior planning period; and
• Public-Private Partnerships on the City land.
These programs include policies to streamline
housing project review and that incentivize
construction of ADUs and implement tracking system
for monitoring of housing development, specific plan
updates to rezone the identified housing opportunity
sites, and collaboration with private developers to
create opportunities for new housing development.
(Attachment 3: Housing Element Plan, Pgs. 1-106 to
1-109)
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iii. Development of
Affordable Housing
The programs under the Affordable Housing
category are directed towards creating policies that
incentivize development of affordable housing of
various types and sizes. The City will update its
inclusionary housing ordinance and density bonus
ordinance to incentivize development of affordable
units for large families and disabled people, as well
as to create a streamlined process for
implementation of density bonus incentives,
concessions, and waivers. Furthermore, the City will
strive to provide affordable housing opportunities by
seeking funding to develop transitional and
supportive housing, engaging with major employers
in the City for provision of housing, incentivizing infill housing development, and exploring possibility of
establishing an impact fee on non- residential
development to support construction of affordable
housing. The programs included in this category are:
• Facilitate Development of Affordable Housing
on Non-Vacant Sites;
• Inclusionary Housing Ordinance;
• Density Bonus Ordinance;
• Affordable Homeownership Program;
• Employer Assisted Housing;
• Development Impact Fees for Affordable
Housing;
• Sustainability and Green Building Design;
and
• Transitional and Supportive Housing.
(Attachment 3: Housing Element Plan, Pgs. 1-109 to
1-113)
iv. Remove Constraints to
Housing
The programs under this category are directed
towards streamlining the housing approval process
by removing regulatory constraints and incorporating
objective development standards to facilitate
development of a variety of affordable in-fill housing, while protecting and preserving existing
neighborhoods. The programs under this category
include:
• Objective Development Standards;
• Updated Multi-family Development
Standards;
• Development Fee Waivers;
• Lot Consolidation Program;
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• Zoning Text Amendments for Special Needs
Housing;
• Updated Project Appeal Procedures.
(Attachment 3: Housing Element Plan, Pgs. 1-114 to
1-116)
v. Equal Housing
Opportunities and
Special Needs
The programs in this category include policies that
are intended to create awareness to promote fair
housing practices through increased public
notification and outreach that includes distributing
fair housing brochures, conducting workshops and
trainings. Additionally, the programs include policies
that focus on expanding the range of housing options
available and accessible to persons with disabilities
and extremely low-income households. For example,
the City has initiated Tiny Home Village project that
will provide 26 modular homes to house 51 residents
on public land. Furthermore, programs that include
landlord-
tenant counseling and implementation of
homelessness plan will prevent displacement and
potential homelessness and address homelessness
within the City.
The programs under this category are:
• Fair Housing/ Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing;
• Landlord - Tenant Services and Mediation;
• Homeless Housing and Services;
• Housing for Persons with Disabilities;
• Housing for Extremely Low-Income
Households.
(Attachment 3: Housing Element Plan, Pgs. 1-106 to
1-109)