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Town of Fairfax
Housing Element
Project
Town Council Briefing
November 16, 2022
Presentation Outline
1. Project Components and Phasing
2. Approach for Streamlining Delivery
3. Initial Assessment of Work Completed to date
4. Preliminary Timeline and Next Steps
Components, Phasing
and Approach
Housing Element Update Project Town of Fairfax
Overall Project Components
• 2023-31 Housing Element Update
• Safety and Land Use Element Updates
• Objective Design and Development Standards and Rezoning • Environmental Impact Report
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Legally Mandated Timeframes
• Public review of Draft Housing Element
• HCD review of Draft Housing Element
• Public review of Draft EIR
• Statutory deadline for adoption
• 120-day grace period
30 days
90 days
45 days
January 31, 2023
May 31, 2023
Housing Element Update Project Town of Fairfax
Streamlining Project Delivery
• Prioritize the public review Draft Housing Element
• Use 90-day HCD review period to optimize the timeline • Stagger submittal of Housing Element component deliverables to Town staff to facilitate review
• Focused subcommittee working sessions
• Ongoing consultation with HCD
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Key Housing Element
Components
• Inventory of available sites for housing
• Projection of realistic capacity
• Assessment of housing needs,
constraints, and “fair housing” issues
• Action Plan of implementing programs
Initial Assessment of
Work Completed to Date
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Housing Needs Assessment
• Thorough review of Census data
• Prepared as an Appendix to the
Housing Element
• Addresses all statutorily defined
special needs groups
• Substantially complete and will
inform development of
implementing programs
Figure B-12 Fairfax Household Income Level by Tenure
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Constraints Analysis
• Includes a review of governmental, environmental and market constraints to housing
• Solid base on which to build
• Refinements needed:
• Infrastructure constraints analysis
• Additional analysis of zoning and processing times
• Summary of key findings to set up for Housing Action Plan Housing Element Update Project Town of Fairfax
Fair Housing Assessment
• Comprehensive review of fair housing issues in Marin County • Covers all required topics: enforcement; segregation/integration; R/ECAPs; access to opportunity; disproportionate needs
• Refinements needed:
• More specifics for Fairfax
• Prioritization of issues
• Matrix of meaningful actions and metrics
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Sites Inventory
• Core component and critical path item
• Inventory demonstrates capacity to meet
RHNA at all income levels
• Additional work needed to:
Substantiate capacity projections
Confirm site eligibility criteria are met
Demonstrate viability of non-vacant sites
• Priority #1
Preliminary Timeline
and Next Steps
Housing Element Update Project Town of Fairfax
Preliminary Timeline & Next Steps
• Formalize schedule with staff
• Set subcommittee meeting #1 date
• Set meeting with HCD
• Incremental submittal of HE components
• Release of Public Review Draft HE
• HCD review period
Nov 22
Early Dec
Early Dec
Nov - Jan
Early Feb
Mar - May
Q&A