EITY BE SANTA CLARA
City of 2023 JUL 20 AMII: 31
Santa Clara
The Center of What's Possible
CITY COUNCIL WRITTEN PETITION
Date: 7-20-23
1 NiKKi Welch _ hereby request that the following subject be placed on the City of Santa Clara Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting Agenda:
SB9 Application fee Waiver for lincome
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City Council,
This petition is about SB9.Thanks to governor for passing this law in 2022.
This law allows homeowners to split their lot, providing more housing and especially beneficial to low income, older homeowners with NO other assets. Unfortunately, the fees to start the application are so high, it makes it impossible to use this law for low-income homeowners.
I would like to be able to split my lot. I currently own over 10000sq ft which City of Santa Clara requires to be a 60:40 split. My plan is to split the lot into 6000 sq ft and 4000 sq ft. parcels.
Sell the 6000 sq ft lot use the proceeds of that sale to build the second lot (4000 sq ft) in the original half size lot, to live comfortably in my community and have extra money to supplement my income.
To be able to split the lot is challenging for low-income homeowners without the means to meet the city fees and other associated costs.
I have to come up with 25k-45k to split the lot to get through initial application process in Santa Clara. The tentative parcel map has to be done by a licensed surveyor/civil engineer and to be included with the application. IN ADDITION, there is a $15k fee to the city of Santa Clara to get them to look at the application.
City needs to help low-income homeowners to Grant program or some city loan as you currently have for repair homes for low-income homeowners, or a way to do the project and pay back the city when the homeowner sells the project/ split the lot.
We want to stay in our communities, keep our homes and contribute to the area.
Please help us use the SB9 law.
Thank You,
Nikki Welch
408-807-6777