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STAFF REPORT
City Council Consent Calendar Agenda Item
DATE: April 18, 2022
TO: Honorable Mayor and Council Members
FROM: Liz Shorey, Deputy Community Development Director THROUGH: Merritt Perry, Interim City Manager
SUBJECT: Acceptance of the 2021 Annual Housing Progress Report and Direct Staff to Submit it to the California Department of Housing and Community Development and the State Office of Planning and Research STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the Council accept the Annual Housing Progress Report and direct staff to submit it to the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the State Office of Planning and Research (OPR).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
California Government Code Section 65400 requires that each governing body prepare an Annual Housing Progress Report (APR) reporting on the status and progress of implementing the jurisdiction’s housing element for the previous calendar year. The APR includes information on the city’s progress in addressing the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) as reflected in the number and type of building permits issued, and the status of housing policies/programs listed in the jurisdiction’s housing element. The content of the APR is directed by the State housing law, and reporting forms are provided by the State Housing and Community Development Department (HCD). Pursuant to Government Code Section 65400(a)(2), local planning agencies shall provide an Annual Housing Element Progress Report to HCD by April 1st or within 60 days thereafter.
The 2019-2027 Housing Element was adopted by the City Council on August 19, 2019. The State Department of Housing and Community Development certified the Housing Element on September 16, 2019, and found it to be in compliance with State housing element law. The City's Housing Element identifies community-housing needs and describes ways in which safe, affordable housing can be provided and maintained for City residents. In addition, the Housing Element provides housing programs that facilitate and remove barriers to housing production.
The State has expanded the information required in the annual progress reports, now requiring a breakdown of permits submitted, approved, and constructed, and classified according to estimated affordability levels.
The following is a summary of the City’s completed Progress Report form for 2021:
Tables A and A2 list the City’s development applications submitted and deemed complete but may or may not yet be approved, by income category, within the calendar year 2021. A Consent Agenda Item 4k
total of 62 residential applications were submitted (Table A), and building permits were issued for a total of 43 units. A total of 35 single family building permits were issued, and 8 multifamily permits were issued (Smith Lane). Of these, 15 were above-moderate income units, 20 were moderate-income units, and 8 were low income units. There were no applications submitted for very low-income categories in 2021. Table B reports the City’s progress towards meeting the City’s 2019-2027 Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). This table shows the RHNA allocation for Fortuna, and the number of units credited towards the RHNA through the current planning period.
The City’s total RHNA allocation is 290 units, and 43 units were constructed in 2021.
Combined with the units constructed in 2019 and 2020, the remaining allocation is 199. Table C are the sites rezoned to meet a jurisdiction’s shortfall; the City has no shortfall, so the table is left blank.
Table D is the City’s narrative of the City’s Program Implementation Status of the adopted Housing Element. The table describes each program and its implementation status. Table E is the State’s Commercial Development Bonus (partnered commercial/affordable housing), which is not applicable to the City, and has been left blank. Table F is the units rehabilitated, preserved, or acquired as “alternative adequate sites”, if listed in the Housing Element; this page has been left blank, as the City does not list these in the Housing Element.
Table G identifies sites owned by the locality that were included in the housing element sites inventory and were sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of during the reporting year.
The City has not sold any land that would have been included in the housing elements sites inventory.
Table H identifies land owned by the locality that has been formally identified as surplus land pursuant to Government Code 54221(b). This table has been left blank, as the City has no formally-designated surplus land.
The Progress Report was presented to the Planning Commission on April 12 th
. Following City
Council review of the Progress Report, the report will be filed with OPR and HCD pursuant to State law. Submission of the Progress Report maintains the City’s eligibility for receiving CDBG and other grants administered by HCD.
ENVIRONMENTAL/CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) REVIEW
Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 153378(b)(5), the Fortuna 2030 General Plan Annual Housing Progress Report is an administrative activity not considered a “project”, and no further environmental review is required.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Preparing the Housing Report and submitting it to HCD and OPR does not have a cost to the General Fund.
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RECOMMENDED COUNCIL ACTION:
Staff recommends that the Council accept the Annual Housing Progress Report and direct staff to submit it to the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the State Office of Planning and Research (OPR). Consent Agenda vote.
ATTACHMENT:
2021 Annual Housing Progress Report