City of Goleta
Housing Element 2023-2031
City Council Adoption Hearing
Presentation By:
Anne Wells, Advance Planning Manager
Andy Newkirk, Senior Planner
John Douglas, Housing Consultant
January 17, 2023
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Public Hearing Agenda
Suggested Format
• Staff Presentation
• Council Questions
• Public Comment
• Council Deliberation
• Action on Recommendation
• Background
• State Requirements
• HCD Review and Revised Draft Preparation
• Summary of Revisions Based on HCD Letter
• Environmental Review
• Next Steps
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Presentation Topics
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Background – State Requirements
• The Housing Element is a required part of the General Plan • Extensive legal requirements
• Housing Element updates required every 8 years
• Last updated on December 16, 2014
• 2023-2031 update required by State law (“6th cycle”)
• State oversight & Housing Element “certification”
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Background – HCD Review and
Revised Draft Preparation
• Draft Housing Element submitted to HCD for initial 90-day review on June 30, 2022
• City received HCD letter on September 27, 2022. HCD organized the comments into five topic areas as listed below:
A. Review and Revision (of the City’s 2015-2023 Housing Element) B. Housing Needs, Resources, and Constraints
C. Housing Programs
D. Quantified Objectives
E. Consistency with General Plan
• Revisions to Draft Housing Element prepared in response to letter January 17, 2023 6
A. Review and Revision (of the City’s
2015-2023 Housing Element)
• Additional housing projects detail added: ADU production, Super 8 Supportive Housing Project (Buena Tierra), 3-D printed house support • Expanded description of the City’s new Affordable Housing Implementation Division was added
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B. Housing Needs, Resources, and
Constraints
• Most extensive section of HCD comments
• Broken up into six topic areas:
1. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Constraints
2. Extremely Low-Income Housing
3. Inventory of Land
4. Governmental Constraints
5. Nongovernmental Constraints
6. Analysis of Special Needs Populations
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B1. Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing (AFFH)
• Extensive revisions to Technical Appendix, including several new and updated maps
• Updates to AFFH analysis in Table 10A-37, Fair Housing Impediments, Contributing Factors and Meaningful Actions
• Significant revisions to Policy HE 3.1 Affirmatively Further Fair Housing Opportunities based on revisions to Table 10A-37 January 17, 2023 9
B1. Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing (AFFH)
HE 3.1(c) – Increased focus on fair housing education and training • Example – HE 3.1(c)(3)-(5):
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B1. Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing (AFFH)
HE 3.1(d) – Increased access to opportunity and mobility • Explore alternative land use strategies
• Funding for accessibility improvements
• Incentives for housing choices and affordability in all development • Require affirmative marketing plans
• Mid-term evaluation (in 2027)
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B1. Affirmatively Furthering Fair
Housing (AFFH)
HE 3.1(d) – Increased access to opportunity and mobility • Incentivize affordable housing units under SB 9
• Develop mobility counseling program
• Financial support for income-restricted ADUs
• Promote First-Time Homebuyer Assistance program
• Research homesharing
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B2. Extremely Low-Income Housing
• Technical Appendix analysis expanded to describe programs to address the needs of ELI households, including the expanded HE 3.1 (see discussion later)
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B3. Inventory of Land
6th Cycle Final RHNA by Income Category – Goleta
Very
Low Low Moderate Above
Moderate Total
682 324 370 461 1,837
Source: SBCAG, 7/15/2021
(5th cycle: 979 units)
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B3. Inventory of Land
• Parcel Listing
• Realistic Capacity
• Small and Large Sites
• Sites Identified in Prior Planning Periods
• Environmental Constraints
• Nonvacant Sites
• Water Sewer Priority
• Zoning for a Variety of Housing Types
• Other Sites Inventory Information
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B3. Inventory of Land
• Parcel Listing: Additional information (age of structures, I/L ratios, property owner interest)
• Realistic Capacity: No change (already utilizing 50% discount factor) • Sites Identified in Prior Planning Periods: New subprogram HE 2.1(g)
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B3. Inventory of Land
• Water Sewer Priority: New subprogram HE 5.2(g)
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B3. Inventory of Land
• Updates to Previous Inventory
• Underutilized sites that allow housing but are smaller than 0.5 acres.
• Additional sites and increasing density assumptions for sites that qualify under recently adopted legislations (Senate Bill 6). • Gross lot area to calculate residential density (see Program HE
2.1(e) Increased Densities).
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B3. Updated Sites Inventory Table
Income Category
TotalVery Low Low Moderate Above
RHNA 682 324 370 461 1,837
Approved projects 59 0 0 5 64
Vacant sites 249 32 378 663
Underutilized sites 1,146 542 47 1,735
Future ADUs 108 10 34 152
Total estimated capacity 1,562 584 465 2,614
Surplus (deficit) 556 214 3 777
Notes:
For the analysis of housing site capacity, the very-low and low income categories are combined because the zoning standards are the same for these categories.
*Table updated to reflect increase in future ADUs based on 2022 ADU data (see also Errata) January 17, 2023 19
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B4 and B5. Constraints
• Additional analysis in Technical Appendix
• Revision to HE 2.3(d):
• Revision to HE 3.2(i):
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B6. Analysis of Special Needs
Populations
• Technical Appendix revised to provide additional analysis of special housing needs, including challenges faced by the population, the existing resources to meet those needs, gaps in resources, and proposed programs in the Housing Plan to help address those challenges
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C. Housing Programs
• Seven Topic Areas included:
1. Beneficial Impact and Timing
2. Support a Variety of Housing
3. Support Affordable Housing
4. Removal of Constraints (addressed above)
5. Promote and Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (addressed above)
6. Preserve Assisted Housing
7. Incentivize ADUs
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C1. Beneficial Impact and Timing
• Several Programs revised with more discrete actions and timing for implementation (including HE 1.4, HE 2.2, HE 2.4, and HE 2.6). • HE 1.4(c):
• HE 2.4(d):
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C2. Support a Variety of Housing
• Several Programs revised with discrete actions and timing for implementation (including HE 2.1(f), HE 3.2(d), and HE 5.2(f)). • HE 2.1(f):
• HE 5.2(f):
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C3. Support Affordable Housing
• Revisions to HE 2.4 (Facilitate Affordable Housing Development) • Broadened scope to reference special needs housing:
• Priority processing subprogram added (HE 2.4(h)) (see Errata):
• Added specifics and timing into subprograms of HE 2.4, HE 2.7, and HE 3.2
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C6. Preserve Assisted Housing
• New subprogram HE 1.3(d) added:
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C7. Incentivize ADUs
• Program HE 2.6 (Encourage ADUs) substantially revised (see Errata):
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D. Quantified Objectives
• Table 10-2 updated to include preservation of all mobile home units (approximately 650 spaces) during the planning period:
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E. Consistency with General Plan
• Discussion added to the Housing Plan of how General Plan internal consistency will be maintained throughout the planning period.
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Additional Revisions (see Errata)
• Planning Commission Recommendations 1, 2, and 4 (see Staff Report):
• Ensure that on-site management/support units does not prevent priority processing in new subprogram HE 2.4(h)
• Remove “Potential” when listing the strategies in HE 3.1(a) • Fix typo in Section VII.F.I of the Technical Appendix • Additional Revisions (see Staff Report):
• HE 3.1(c)(3) and Tech App minor revisions
• Additional Cleanups and Updated Information (added since Staff Report release)
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Environmental Review
• The Housing Element is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines [the “common sense exemption” covering activities with no possibility of having a significant effect on the environment]
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Next Steps
• Adopted Housing Element Transmittal to HCD (by February 15, 2023, the statutory deadline)
• Begin Implementation
• HCD 60-Day Review (Winter-Spring 2023)
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Council Questions
Public Comment
Council Deliberation
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Recommendation
Adopt Resolution No. 23-__, entitled “A Resolution of
the City Council of the City of Goleta, California,
Adopting the Housing Element 2023-2031
Amendment to the General Plan/Coastal Land Use
Plan and Determining that the General Plan
Amendment is Exempt from CEQA Pursuant to
CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) (Case No. 21-
0002-GPA)”
*Include Errata Sheet