Oakland 2023-2031
Housing Element
General Plan Update Phase 2Goals for Today's Conversation 2 1. Update City Council on the status of the 2023 -2031 Housing Element Process
2. Provide overview of community engagement
feedback to -date
3. Provide summary of State HCD response
4. Solicit feedback from City Council on key policy
recommendations and State HCD letter
Housing Element
Background
General Plan Update Phase 2
Strategies and Actions
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Adequate sites
Housing Element
4 • City’s blueprint for housing
Oaklanders, at all economic levels
including low income and
households with special needs.
• Subject to state approval and covers
8 years (2023 -2031)
• Must meet the City’s projected
housing need (known as Regional
Housing Needs Allocation)
• Allows the City access to grant
opportunities that will benefit
housing
General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Element Requirements 5 • AB 686 (Affirmatively Further Fair Housing) - Facilitate deliberate action to explicitly address, combat, and relieve disparities resulting from past patterns of segregation to foster more inclusive communities • AB 215 - Public review for 30 days before sending to State HCD for review • Required Components
• Community Engagement
• Assessment of Fair Housing
• Sites Analysis
• Evaluation of Past Performance
• Constraints Analysis
• Priorities, Goals and Actions
• Penalties for Noncompliance
Source: ABAG, Final RHNA Plan, December 2021
5th Cycle: 2,059 units, 43.1% met
6th Cycle: 6,511 units
5th Cycle: 2,075 units, 26.1% met
6th Cycle: 3,750 units
5th Cycle: 2,815 units, 2.7% met
6th Cycle: 4,457 units
5th Cycle: 7,816 units, 174.3%
met
6th Cycle: 11,533 units
5th Cycle: 14,765 units, 102.5%
met
6th Cycle: 26,251 units
2023-2031 Future Housing Need
6 General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Element Timeline
7 First Public Review Draft
Released: May 2022
Second Public Review
Draft: November 2022
Community Outreach Framework
8 • Community Engagement for Oakland’s most impacted residents • Working class communities, Communities of color, Unhoused, People with disabilities, Seniors, Formerly incarcerated, Youth, Communities experiencing environmental injustices
• Pop-up and Community Hub Events
• Over 1000 people reached in-person
• Neighborhood Workshops – Townhalls
• 4 Housing Element Focused Workshops
• 2 Townhalls and 2 Open House
• Over 40 presentations to Neighborhood Councils-Community Groups • Over 250 participants virtually
• Discussion Groups
• Decisionmaker Meetings
• Online Engagement
• Equity Working Group (EWG)
Engagement to Date
9 General Plan Update Phase 2What We Heard: Key Issues
• Lack of rental
assistance
• Rents increase, but
wages do not
• Seniors and families
cannot afford housing
• Landlords do not
maintain properties
adequately
• Overcrowding
• Mold, lead, water
leaks, poor ventilation
• Families losing homes
during foreclosure &
predatory loan crisis
• Black residents and
culture pushed out
• Evictions happen too
often
• City is destroying
encampments
• No access to hygiene
and shelter
• No financial
assistance for food,
rent, etc
• Residents living in
polluted areas are at-
risk of health concerns
• Housing production in
high opportunity areas
does not curb
displacement
What We Heard: Key Issues
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General Plan Update Phase 2What We Heard: Solutions
• Build more deeply
affordable housing
• Impact fees and
inclusionary zoning
• Affordable by design
housing
• Proactive inspection
system
• Tax credits / programs to
help homeowners
improve air ventilation
• Improved enforcement
for mold cleanup
• Preference policy for
displaced ppl in new
affordable housing
• Protection from
predatory lending
• Fund community land
trusts and other co-
ownership
opportunities
• Access to bathrooms
and showers
• Healthcare and
supportive services
• Restructure City’s
encampment
management policy
• Build housing in
gentrifying/at-risk and
high opportunity areas
• Ensure City-owned land
is used for affordable
housing
• Consider EJ and climate
challenges
What We Heard: Solutions
11 Draft 2023-2031
Housing Element:
Overview
Housing Need Assessment
Main Chapters Appendices
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Community Outreach
• Chapter 3: Sites Inventory
Summary
• Chapter 4: Housing Action
Plan
• Appendix A: Evaluation of the 2015-2023
Element
• Appendix B: Housing Needs Assessment
• Appendix C: Sites Inventory
• Appendix D: Assessment of Fair Housing
• Appendix E: Housing Resources and
Opportunities
• Appendix F: Housing Constraints
• Appendix G: Opportunities for Energy
Conservation
• Appendix H: Glossary
• Appendix I: Public Outreach Materials
What’s in the Housing Element
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General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Need Assessment
• Safety
(Constraints)
• Improving access to
opportunity and
addressing equity
• Lot size
• Accessing
neighborhood
needs
• How many units
can be built
(density)
Site Inventory: Housing Location
Considerations
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Draft Sites Inventory Map
16 General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Need Assessment
Goal 1: Protect Oakland Residents from Displacement and Prevent Homelessness Enforce Just Cause for Eviction measures ; Continue to implement the Rent Adjustment Program; Monitor neighborhood displacement risk factors; Continue and expand the Tenant Protection Ordinance
Goal 2: Preserve and Improve Existing Affordable Housing Stock Support home rehabilitation programs; Promote healthy homes and lead-safe housing; Enforce, monitor, and preserve affordable housing covenants with an emphasis on “at -risk” units ; Provide additional subsidy for residential hotels
Goal 3: Expand Affordable Housing Opportunities
Support community land trusts and other shared equity models; Implement an affordable housing overlay ; Develop permanent housing affordable to extremely -low -income (ELI) households on public land ; Develop a project-based rental or operating subsidy program for ELI residents; Study targeted implementation of an inclusionary housing requirement
Housing Action Plan: Policies & Programs
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General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Need Assessment
Goal 4: Address Homelessness and Expand Services for the Unhoused Expand, improve and maintain crisis response beds; Expand co -governance and partnerships with unsheltered residents in the design and delivery of homelessness services ; Provide development standards for Low Barrier Navigation Centers
Goal 5: Promote Neighborhood Stability and Health
Provide fair housing services and outreach ; Provide first time homebuyer programs; Encourage new affordable housing in high resource neighborhoods; Promote development of mixed -income housing to reduce income -based concentration ; Promote infill, transit-oriented development (TOD), and mixed-use development.
Housing Action Plan: Policies & Programs
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Rental housing registry
Tenant right to counsel
Proactive rental inspections
Anti-speculation tax
Tenant/Community Opportunity to
Purchase Act
Rental/operating subsidy program for
extremely low-income residents
Universal design strategies
Affordable housing overlay zone
Senior/low income ADU incentives
Acquisition/equity funds for small sites
Zoning changes/update of
development standards to promote
missing middle housing
Inclusionary housing requirement study
Enhanced Infrastructure Financing
District
Expand co -governance with
unhoused residents
Objective design standards
Actions related to vacant property/units
Disaster reconstruction overlay zone
Housing Action Plan: What’s New?
18 General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Need AssessmentZoning Reforms to Further Fair Housing 19 Affirmatively Further Fair Housing by:
Increasing housing production capacity
Opening up/Unlocking additional opportunities for affordable and “missing middle” housing in exclusionary/high -resource neighborhoods Reducing exposure to air pollution, toxic and other environmental hazards in environmental justice communities
Community feedback to staff to publish preliminary proposal and maps Preliminary Zoning Proposal (published on September 21, 2022) Missing Middle and Related Planning Code Amendments
Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) Zone
Housing Sites Overlay Zone
General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Need AssessmentMissing Middle & Related Code Amendments 20 Encourage a diversity of housing types in single -family-dominated neighborhoods, along transit corridors, transit proximate areas, and high resource neighborhoods Zoning, density and height changes on specific sites in Rockridge Increase permitted densities in areas near transit and along transit corridors Reduce parking and open space requirements to lower the cost of new housing production. Revise open space regulations to allow flexibility on its onsite location and configuration to ensure more of the allowed buildable area can be dedicated to new housing units. Remove Conditional Use Permit requirements for grocery stores in food deserts. Streamline design review procedures and approve more project types ministerially. Remove unnecessary barriers in the Planning Code to the approval of Emergency Shelters. Reduce the allowed intensity of commercial and industrial activities permitted in the Housing and Business Mix (HBX) Commercial Zones to minimize impacts on nearby residential uses. Minimize the impact of heavier industrial uses in the Commercial Industrial Mix (CIX), General Industrial (IG), and Industrial Office (IO) Zones within certain distances of nearby residential zones. 21 Existing and Proposed
Zoning Changes
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Existing and Proposed
Corridor Heights
2323
Zoning and Height Changes
– Rockridge Sites
General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Need AssessmentAffordable Housing Overlay (AHO) Zone 24 Create and preserve affordable housing restricted for extremely low, very low, low, and/or moderate-income households
By-right approvals for 100% affordable housing projects proposed within the AHO Zone Allow for a bonus height for eligible affordable housing projects as well as relaxation of other listed development standards, with no maximum density applied to allowed building envelope AHO will be applied on top of existing Hillside Residential -4 (RH-4), Detached Unit Residential (RD), Mixed Housing Type Residential (RM), Urban Residential (RU), Housing and Business Mix Commercial (HBX), Central Estuary District (D -CE), Neighborhood Center Commercial (CN), Community Commercial (CC), Central Business District (CBD), Regional Commercial (CR), Transit - Oriented Development Commercial (S -15), Broadway Valdez District (D -BV), Lake Merritt District (D-LM), and Coliseum Area District (D -CO) zones
Will not be applied initially to areas in the City's designated Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone (VHFHSZ) or within the S-9 Fire Safety Protection Combining Zone - but the City is studying whether some border areas of the VHFHSZ might be appropriate to be included in the AHO based on further analysis, including emergency evacuation scenarios Seeking Council
Direction on State
HCD Letter
Summary of State HCD
Comment Letter
The State HCD comment letter acknowledged Oakland's community engagement thus far and recommends revisions to the Draft Housing Element to comply with State requirements. It requests more:
• details on our upcoming housing pipeline and future sites where housing can be built (the "Site Inventory")
• specific timing/action on several policy actions
• details on Oakland's plans to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (AFFH) by allowing more housing in Rockridge and other "high opportunity" neighborhoods in North Oakland, Dimond, Adams Point, etc.
General Plan Update Phase 2Housing Need AssessmentCouncil Direction Needed on State HCD Letter 27 State HCD comments on:
AFFH Efforts
Proposed rezoning in high-resource areas – e.g. Rockridge, North Oakland, Adams Point, Dimond, etc.
Proposed Affordable Housing Overlay
Other comments that require Council guidance:
▪ Follow-up on future revenue measures (e.g. real estate transfer tax revamp; vacant property tax; flip tax)
▪ Response to State’s suggestion to revise Action 3.5.3 toestablish a social housing pilot program (listed on Page 5 of 12 of the State HCD letter) Guidance on COPA/TOPA
Reducing barriers to ADU development
Timeline
28 1st Public Review of Draft Housing Element – May 12, 2022 – June 13, 2022 Planning Commission Meeting: June 1, 2022
Draft Housing Element sent to State Housing and Community Development (HCD) Department for Review: June 30, 2022
HCD Review of Draft Housing Element – 90 -day review period: June 30, 2022 – September 28, 2022
NOTE: The Draft Housing Element was still available for public review during this State HCD review period
HCD Provided Findings Letter - September 28, 2022
Staff Incorporate Comments from State and Public – October – November 2022
Public Review of Updated Housing Element – Late November 2022 Focus Groups for Zoning Amendments - Fall 2022 (Dates TBD) Draft EIR Released – TBD
Planning Commission and City Council Hearings – Dates TBD
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