CITY OF SANTA CRUZ
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
Regular Meeting – March 28, 2023
Updated March 27, 2023 – Item 27
12:30 P.M. CLOSED SESSION, ZOOM/COURTYARD CONFERENCE ROOM 3:30 P.M. CONSENT, GENERAL BUSINESS, ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, AND PUBLIC
HEARING, ZOOM/COUNCIL CHAMBERS
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Closed Session
12:30 PM
Referral to Closed Session
1. 495 Upper Park Drive and Appurtenances, APN 009-301-06, Portion Motion to refer to Closed Session for discussion regarding price, terms of payment, or both.
Closed Session
2. Conference with Labor Negotiators (Government Code §54957.6) SEIU Temporary Employees
City Negotiator – Sara De Leon
3. Real Property Negotiations (Government Code §54956.8) 1) Property: Approximately 8.15 acres located on Mount Hermon Road in Scotts Valley, CA
APNs: 022-721-07, 022-721-08, 022-721-09
Owner: City of Santa Cruz
City Negotiator: Bonnie Lipscomb
Negotiating Parties: City of Santa Cruz and City of Scotts Valley Under Negotiation: Price, terms of payment, or both
2) Property: 495 Upper Park Drive and appurtenances
APN: 009-301-06, portion
Owner: City of Santa Cruz
City Negotiator: Bonnie Lipscomb
Negotiating Parties: City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center (doing business as Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1)
Under Negotiation: Price, terms of payment, or both
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Closed Session (continued)
4. Conference With Legal Counsel – Liability Claims (Government Code §54956.95)
Claimant: Russell E. Gross
Claim against the City of Santa Cruz
5. Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation (Government Code §54956.9(d)(1))
1) County of Santa Cruz, et al. v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. (United States District Court, Northern District of California, Case No. 5:18-cv-02803 and United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, MDL No. 2804, Case No. 17-MD-2804)
2) City of Santa Cruz v. The Regents of the University of California, et al.
(Santa Cruz County Superior Court Case No. 22CV00373)
3) Regents of the University of California, et al. v. City of Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz County Superior Court Case No. 20CV02152)
6. Conference with Legal Counsel – Anticipated Litigation (Government Code §54956.9(d)(2)
Significant exposure to litigation (one potential case to be discussed)
7. Conference with Legal Counsel – Anticipated Litigation (Government Code §54956.9(d)(4))
Initiation of litigation (one potential case to be discussed) March 28, 2023 City Council 5
City Council
3:30 PM
Call to Order
Roll Call
Presentations
8. Dientes 2022 Oral Health Report
9. Overview of Two Major Water Department Capital Investment Projects:
The Graham Hill Water Treatment Plant Facility Improvement Project and the Felton to Graham Hill Water Treatment Plant Segment of the Newell Creek Pipeline Replacement Project
Presiding Officer's Announcements
Statements of Disqualification
Additions and Deletions
City Attorney Report on Closed Session
Council Meeting Calendar
10. The City Council will review the meeting calendar attached to the agenda and revise it as necessary.
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Consent Agenda
11. Minutes of the March 14, 2023 Meeting of the City Council (CC) Motion to approve as submitted.
12. Minutes of the March 20, 2023 Special Meeting of the City Council (CC) Motion to approve as submitted.
13. Santa Cruz County Hazardous Materials Advisory Commission Nomination (CC)
Motion to nominate Bob Nelson, Public Works Operations Manager, for appointment by the County Board of Supervisors to the County Hazardous Materials Advisory Commission.
14. Senate Bill 43 – Conservatorship Reform and SB 363 – Behavioral Health Bed Database (CN)
Motion to direct the Mayor to send letters to support Senate Bill 43 – Conservatorship Reform and SB 363 – Behavioral Health Bed Database.
15. Wharf Reinforcement Project (c512203) – Notice of Completion (ED) Motion to accept the work of Power Engineering Construction Company as complete per the plans and specifications and authorize the filing of the Notice of Completion for the Wharf Reinforcement Project (c512203).
16. Approval of Second Amendment to Lease and Road Improvement Agreement with the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency
Communications Center at DeLaveaga Park and Related Authorizing Actions (ED)
Resolution approving the Second Amendment to the Lease and Road Improvement Agreement with the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center and authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to negotiate and execute any amendments, subleases, or use agreements and related documents, in forms approved by the City Attorney.
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Consent Agenda (continued)
17. Downtown Library and Affordable Housing Development Project Ground Lease Authorization for 119 Lincoln Street (ED)
Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into lease(s) and authorizing the Economic Development and Housing Director to execute any amendments or documents needed thereto of a non-substantive nature, in forms approved by the City Attorney, for real property located at 119 Lincoln Street (APN 005-141-21) between the City of Santa Cruz and DTLMU Investors, L.P. (a California Limited Partnership), and/or or its affiliate(s), for the previously approved downtown library affordable housing project on the site.
18. Liability Claim Filed Against the City of Santa Cruz (FN) Motion to reject the liability claim of Russell E. Gross, based on staff recommendation.
19. Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022 (FN)
Receive and file the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), and related reports, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
20. Annual Housing Element and General Plan Progress Reports (PL) Accept the 2022 General Plan and Housing Element Annual Progress Reports and direct staff to submit the reports to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
21. SitelogiQ Harvey West Park Ballfield Lighting Project (c402307) – Budget Adjustment (PW)
Resolution amending the FY 2023 budget and appropriating funds in the amount of $400,000 from Harvey West Ballfield Lighting (c302218) to Comprehensive Energy Solutions - Harvey West Park Ball Field Solar (c402307).
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Consent Agenda (continued)
22. Emergency Electrical Inspection, Repair and Temporary Generator Installation at the Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF), and Approval of Additional Fuel Costs – Authorization of Emergency Contracts and Budget Adjustment (PW)
Motion to:
1) Ratify the emergency contract with Cupertino Electric Inc. for inspection and repair of the WWTF main switchboard and temporary standby generator connection in the amount of $95,000 in accordance with Chapter 3.08.160 “Emergency Procurement” of the Municipal Code and in a form approved by the City Attorney. The Public Works Director is authorized to execute change orders within the approved project budget.
2) Ratify the emergency contract with Aggreko Inc. for temporary standby generator rental at the WWTF in the amount of $171,273.50 in accordance with Chapter 3.08.160 “Emergency Procurement” of the Municipal Code and in a form approved by the City Attorney. The Public Works Director is authorized to execute change orders within the approved project budget.
3) Adopt a resolution to amend the FY 2023 budget and appropriate funds in the amount of $869,400 for emergency fuel costs for the WWTF operating budget – Gas and Oil. The Public Works Director is authorized to execute change orders within the approved project budget.
23. City of Santa Cruz Share of Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program Cost – Budget Adjustment (PW)
Resolution amending the FY 2023 budget to appropriate funds in the amount of $380,000 for the City of Santa Cruz portion of the County’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program.
End Consent Agenda
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General Business
24. 2023 Legislative Program and Platform (CM)
Motion to approve the 2023 Legislative Program and Platform.
25. Military Equipment Purchase Request and Policy Update per Assembly Bill 481 (PD)
Motion to:
1) Introduce for publication an ordinance amending City of Santa Cruz Municipal Code (“SCMC”) Chapter 9.90 “AB 481 Military Equipment Use”; and
2) Approve Santa Cruz Police Department (“SCPD”) Policy 705 incorporating the amended inventory of military equipment as defined by Assembly Bill 481.
26. Approval of $127,730,000 Loan for Water Infrastructure and Finance Innovation Act Loan to Support Implementation of Approved Water Capital Investment Projects (WT)
Resolution authorizing the City to enter into a loan agreement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency up to the amount of $127,730,000 for projects in the Council-approved capital investment plan (Graham Hill Water Treatment Plant (GHWTP) Facility Improvements Project, Newell Creek Pipeline Replacement (Felton to GHWTP) Project, University Tank 4 Project, and Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Project) and authorize the City Manager to execute the loan agreement and related documents, in forms approved by the City Attorney, and pay all closing costs.
Oral Communications Announcement – Members of the public may address Council on matters not on the agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the Council. 30 minutes is allocated for Oral Communications. No extra time for groups will be granted.
Oral Communications
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Public Hearing
The recommendation for the below item has been updated.
27. Appeal of Proposed Single Space Markings on David Way (PW) Motion to defer this item to the April 11, 2023 Council meeting, per staff recommendation.
Resolution to uphold the appeal of the Transportation and Public Works Commission’s decision and install the proposed single space markings on David Way.
Adjournment
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INFORMATION ITEMS PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED TO CITY COUNCILMEMBERS None Issued.
MAYOR'S PROCLAMATIONS
ADDENDUM TO CITY COUNCIL AGENDA – MARCH 28, 2023
28. Proclaiming March 15, 2023 as “Randy Repass Day” and encouraging all citizens to join in congratulating him as the recipient of the 2023 Al Smith Friend of Agriculture Award for his contributions to local agriculture.
29. Proclaiming March 15, 2023 as “Sally-Christine Rodgers Day” and encouraging all citizens to join in congratulating her as the recipient of the 2023 Al Smith Friend of Agriculture Award for her contributions to local agriculture.
Advisory Body Appointments
The following positions are vacant. Council will make the appointments at a future meeting.
Children’s Fund Oversight Committee Two openings – at-large nominations County Latino Affairs Commission One opening – at-large nomination Planning Commission One opening – at-large nomination
Sister Cities Committee One opening – at-large nomination March 28, 2023 City Council 12
Public Hearing
If, in the future, you wish to challenge in court any of the matters on this agenda for which a public hearing is to be conducted, you may be limited to raising only those issues which you (or someone else) raised orally at the public hearing or in written correspondence received by the City at or before the hearing.
Any person seeking to challenge a City Council decision made as a result of a proceeding in which, by law, a hearing is required to be given, evidence is required to be taken, and the discretion in the determination of facts is vested in the City Council, shall be required to commence that action either 60 days or 90 days following the date on which the decision becomes final as provided in Code of Civil Procedure Section 1094.6 Please refer to code of Civil Procedure 1094.6 to determine how to calculate when a decision becomes “final.” The 60-day rule applies to all public hearings conducted pursuant to the City’s Zoning Ordinance, Title 24, Santa Cruz Municipal Code. The 90-day rule applies to all other public hearings.
City Council Agenda Legislative History Addendum
No information was submitted.
City staff is responsible for providing the City Clerk with such documentation and information for the Legislative History Addendum. The information will be on file in the City Clerk’s Department.
The Addendum is a listing of information specific to City Council business, but which does not appear on a Council meeting agenda. Such entities would include, but not be limited to: Court decisions, Coastal Commission Appeals of City Council actions, Closed Session Agreements/Settlements, which are public record, Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments, Local Agency Formation Commission.
THE STATE OF
ORAL
HEALTH
IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
A summary of “The Continuing Need for Oral Health Services,” Barbara Aved Associates, April 2022 8.1
The OHA Journey
Dientes grantfunded 1st Oral
Health (OH) Needs
Assessment
OHASCC
founded;
launched with 1st
OH Summit and
roadshow
County receives
LOHP $1M grant
to facilitate
OHASCC
1st OH
Report Card
2nd OH Summit;
2nd OH Report
Card
Dientes funds 2nd
OH Needs
Assessment;
County receives
2nd LOHP $1M
grant for OHASCC
New OHASCC
Strategic Plan
2015 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023
8.2 OHA’s
2016
Strategic
Plan
8.3 OHA Partners 8.4
• First Tooth/First Birthday
Education Campaign
• Promote Kindergarten Oral
Health Screenings
• Expand Treatment,
Prevention, and Clinical
Capacity
OHA Activities 2017 - 2020
8.5 OHA’s
2021
Report
Card
8.6 25% increase in individuals who
accessed dental care
25k
31k
49k
51k
2014
2019
74k
82k
25% Growth
8.7 First Tooth
First Birthday
60% more
0-2 yr-olds went
to the dentist
2014
36%
2019
57%
8.8 Kinder Dental
Screenings
Only 18% of Kinders
had cavities
► a 25% improvement
from 2014
8.9 75% more
adults went to
the dentist
2014 2019
12,300
7,100
8.10 The 2022
Needs
Assessment
31,000 went
to the dentist
in 2019…
Yet,
51,000
people
did not
8.11 Finding 1: After age 9, going to the
dentist dramatically drops
68%
21%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
1-2 3-5 6-9 10-14 15-18 19-20 21-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 75+ % who visited the dentist in 2019
Age
Santa Cruz County California 8.12
Finding 2: Over 75% of adults did not
receive dental care in 2019
8.13 Finding 3:
64% of Seniors
have gum disease
and less than
1 in 4 visit
a dentist
8.14 2019 utilization from a race/ethnicity lens
Other
White
Hispanic
Went to the dentist Did not go to the dentist
48% 52%
25% 75%
30% 70%
42K
23K
15K
8.15 OHA 2023 and Beyond
• Continue activities focused on children and
pregnant people
• New focus areas:
• Older kids (youth and teens)
• People with diabetes
• Seniors
8.16 Learn More
OralHealthSCC.org
8.17 1
Santa Cruz City Council
March 28, 2023
Update on Major Water Department
Capital Investment Projects
9.1 Project Overview: Newell Creek
Pipeline-Felton to Graham Hill Rd
2 Project Need:
The Newell Creek Pipeline (NCP)
was constructed in 1960 and is
experiencing increased frequency
of line breaks, complicated by
difficult access for maintenance
and repair, as well as landslides
and wildfire.
Damaged Access Road
Leak From Tree Strike
9.2 A History of Breaks
3 2019: Emergency Repair
2017: Four Emergency Repairs
2020: Emergency Repair
2023: Emergency Repair No. 1
2023: Emergency Repair No. 2
9.3 Newell Creek Pipeline-Felton
to Graham Hill Rd
4 Major Scope Elements:
Replace 4.5 Miles of Pipeline-Highest Priority Segment Relocate Into Graham Hill Road-Improved Access
Upgraded Pipe Will Meet Current Seismic Standards
Wildfire Resiliency By Avoiding Heavily Forested Areas Work Phase Cost
Implementation
(Design, Admin, Environmental,
CM)
$8,900,000
Construction (Escalated) $32,200,000
Total Project Estimate $41,100,000
9.4 Project Development
PROJECT EIR
(Complete)
COUNCIL APPROVALS
(October 2023)
CONSTRUCTION
(Spring 2024-2025)
PROJECT DESIGN
(Complete)
5 Purchase
Easements
Approval to Bid
9.5 Provide a resilient surface water treatment
plant that meets regulatory and climate
change challenges
Upgrade aging infrastructure and treatment
processes
Include infrastructure (buildings) and
treatment basins that meet modern seismic
standards and provide reliable and efficient
performance to meet existing and
foreseeable regulations
Flexible water treatment processes that can
be adapted to meet future regulations and
source water quality conditions
Project Overview-Graham Hill Water Treatment
Plant Facility Improvement Project (FIP)
9.6 6
7 New coagulation
New flocculation
Replace tube settlers
with high-rate plate
settlers
New GAC post-filter
adsorbers
Upgrades to existing
filters
New washwater
supply tanks
New chemical day
tanks building
New chemical bulk
storage
New centrifuge
dewatering
New intermediate
ozone building
New maintenance
building
Major Process Upgrades
New clarifiers
New operations
building
9.7 Schedule Environmental
Prepare and Distribute
Final EIR
FALL 2023 – WINTER 2024
Notice of
Preparation
Public Comment Period
(30 days)
JUNE – JULY 2022
Prepare Draft EIR
2022 – 2023
Publish Draft EIR for
Public Review
Public Review Period
(45 days)
SUMMER 2023
Certify Final EIR
City Council Consideration
And Certification
WINTER – SPRING 2024
Design
DECEMBER 2022
30% Design
JUNE 2023
60% Design
MARCH 2024
100% Design
DECEMBER 2023
90% Design
SUMMER 2024
Guaranteed
Maximum Price
AUGUST 2021 –
AUGUST 2022
Basis of Design
Report
CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN
NOVEMBER 2024
8 City Council Approval
9.8 9
Work Phase Cost ($)
Implementation (Design, Admin,
Environmental, CM) $41,177,000
Construction (Escalated) $117,000,000
Total Project Estimate*** $158,177,000
FIP-Project Cost
9.9 9
Questions?
10 9.10 10
Meeting Type
Holiday
Jewish Holiday
Regular Meeting
Special Meeting
Study Session (will be added as scheduled)
Budget Hearing
DATE Location Meeting Type
April 5/6
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public April 18 155 Center St. Council Special Meeting ‐ Strategic Plan Workshop Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public May 23 and 24 Council Chambers Budget Hearings
May 29
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public June 19
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public July 4
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public September 4
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public September 15/16
September 24/25
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public November 10
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public November 23
November 24
December 7/8
Courtyard Conf. Room Closed Session ‐ Closed to the Public Council Chambers Council Regular Meeting ‐ Open to the Public Yom Kippur (City observed ‐ sundown to sundown)
City Council Meeting Calendar for 2023
November 28
December 12
City Hall Closure ‐ Thanksgiving Day
City Hall Closure ‐ Day After Thanksgiving Day
June 27
September 12
September 26
May 23
City Hall Closure ‐ Juneteenth
Please note: Meeting times are not final and are likely to change Passover (City observed ‐ sundown to sundown)
August 8
May 9
April 11
April 25
June 13
City Hall Closure ‐ Labor Day
August 22
July 11 and 25 Meetings Cancelled ‐ CITY COUNCIL DARK
City Hall Closure ‐ Independence Day
City Hall Closure ‐ Memorial Day
Hanukkah (City observed ‐ sundown to sundown)
Rosh Hashanah (City observed ‐ sundown to sundown)
November 14
October 10
October 24
City Hall Closure ‐ Veteran's Day (observed)
10.1 Meeting Type
Holiday
Jewish Holiday
Regular Meeting
Special Meeting
Study Session (will be added as scheduled)
Budget Hearing
DATE Location Meeting Type
City Council Meeting Calendar for 2023
Please note: Meeting times are not final and are likely to change December 25
December 26 Meeting Cancelled ‐ CITY COUNCIL DARK
City Hall Closure ‐ Christmas Day
10.2 MINUTES ARE UNOFFICIAL UNTIL APPROVED BY COUNCIL
City of Santa Cruz
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
MINUTES OF A CITY COUNCIL MEETING
March 14, 2023
12:00 PM
Mayor Keeley opened the City Council Closed Session at 12:03 p.m. in a public meeting via Zoom and in Council Chambers, for the purpose of announcing the agenda, and receiving public testimony.
Roll Call
Present: Councilmembers Newsome, Watkins, Brunner (arrived at 12:10 p.m.), Kalantari-Johnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
Absent: Councilmember Brown.
Staff: City Manager M. Huffaker, Assistant City Manager L. Schmidt, City Attorney T. Condotti, Deputy City Clerk Administrator J. Wood, City Clerk Administrator B. Bush.
Public Comment
Mayor Keeley opened the public comment period at 12:04 p.m. There were no speakers. Mayor Keeley closed the public comment period at 12:04 p.m.
Closed Session
City Attorney T. Condotti announced that a need arose after the agenda was published to add an item to Closed Session for discussion and, due to time constraints, requested the below be added to Closed Session as a subsequent need item.
MOTION: Councilmember Watkins moved, seconded by Councilmember Newsome, to add an item of subsequent need to the Closed Session agenda pertaining to an existing litigation item, City of Santa Cruz v. The Regents of the University of California, et. al., (Santa Cruz County Superior Court Case No. 22CV00373).
11.1 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6394
Closed Session (continued)
ACTION: The motion carried with the following vote.
AYES: Councilmembers Newsome, Watkins, Kalantari-Johnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Councilmembers Brown, Brunner.
DISQUALIFIED: None.
The meeting was closed to the public at 12:06 p.m. and Council adjourned to the Courtyard Conference Room.
1. Real Property Negotiations (Government Code §54956.8) 1) Property: 333 Locust Street
APN: 005-033-03
Owner: Smith Laura Trustee, Mathews William G. and Cynthia S. Trustees, and Smith Sara Wood, Trustee
City Negotiator: Bonnie Lipscomb
Negotiating Parties: City of Santa Cruz and Laura Smith Trustee et al.
Under Negotiation: Price, terms of payment, or both
2) Property: Approximately 8.15 acres located on Mount Hermon Road in Scotts Valley, CA
APNs: 022-721-07, 022-721-08, 022-721-09
Owner: City of Santa Cruz
City Negotiator: Bonnie Lipscomb
Negotiating Parties: City of Santa Cruz and City of Scotts Valley Under Negotiation: Price, terms of payment, or both
This item was deferred to a future meeting.
2. Conference With Legal Counsel – Liability Claims (Government Code §54956.95) 1) Claimant: Laural Pannabecker
2) Claimant: Davida Seliger
Claims against the City of Santa Cruz
Council received a status report, took up under agenda item 9, and no reportable action was taken.
11.2 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6395
Closed Session (continued)
3. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation (Government Code §54956.9(d)(4))
Initiation of litigation (one potential case)
Council met to consider litigation on one potential case.
Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation (Government Code §54956.9(d)(1))
City of Santa Cruz v. The Regents of the University of California, et. al. (Santa Cruz County Superior Court Case No. 22CV00373)
Council received a status report and took no reportable action.
11.3 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6396
City of Santa Cruz
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
MINUTES OF A CITY COUNCIL MEETING
March 14, 2023
2:00 PM
Call to Order – Mayor Keeley called the meeting to order at 2:07 p.m. in Council Chambers.
Roll Call
Present: Councilmembers Newsome, Brown, Watkins, Brunner (left at 5:53 p.m.), Kalantari-Johnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
Absent: None.
Staff: City Manager M. Huffaker, Assistant City Manager L. Schmidt (via Zoom), City Attorney T. Condotti, Director of Economic Development B.
Lipscomb (via Zoom), Finance Director E. Cabell (via Zoom), Director of Information Technology K. Morgan, Director of Planning and Community Development L. Butler (via Zoom), Deputy City Manager L. Murphy (via Zoom), Fire Chief R. Oatey, Water Director R. Menard (via Zoom), Chief People Officer S. De Leon (via Zoom), Director of Parks and Recreation T. Elliot (via Zoom), Director of Public Works N. Nguyen, Transportation Manager M. Starkey, Transportation Planner C. Gallogly, Police Lieutenant W. Morey, Principal Management Analyst J. Mellor, Housing and Community Development Manager J. de Wit, Senior Planner T.
Maier, Deputy City Clerk Administrator J. Wood, City Clerk Administrator B. Bush.
Mayor Keeley called on Councilmember Kalantari-Johnson to announce an event celebrating Persian New Year.
Presentations
4. Parking for Hope Check Presentation
Mayor Keeley spoke and presented a check on behalf of the City to the Downtown Association’s Parking for Hope Program.
Presiding Officer's Announcements – None.
11.4 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6397
Statements of Disqualification – Councilmember Brunner announced she is recusing herself from item 17 in an abundance of caution as this item has an impact on her employer, the Downtown Association.
Additions and Deletions – None.
City Attorney Report on Closed Session – See pages 6393—6395 for the report.
Council Meeting Calendar
5. The City Council reviewed and did not revise the meeting calendar attached to the agenda.
Consent Agenda
Councilmember Brown pulled item 10 for further discussion.
Mayor Keeley opened the public comment period. The following person spoke:
John Golder spoke regarding item 10.
Mayor Keeley closed the public comment period.
MOTION: Councilmember Watkins moved, seconded by Councilmember Brunner, to approve the remaining Consent Agenda.
ACTION: The motion carried unanimously with the following vote.
AYES: Councilmembers Newsome, Brown, Watkins, Brunner, KalantariJohnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
DISQUALIFIED: None.
6. Resolution Extending the Local Emergency Declaration in Connection with the December 2022 and January 2023 Winter Storms (CA/CM)
Resolution No. NS-30,116 was adopted extending by sixty days the Local Emergency Declaration in connection with the December 2022 and January 2023 winter storms.
11.5 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6398
Consent Agenda (continued)
7. Historic Preservation Commission and Planning Commission Appointments (CC) Motion carried to:
Approve Mayor Keeley’s nomination of Jessie Durant to the Historic Preservation Commission, with a term ending January 31, 2027; and Approve Mayor Keeley’s nomination of Timerie Gordon and Vice Mayor Golder’s nomination of Michael Polhamus to the Planning Commission, with terms ending January 31, 2027.
8. Minutes of the February 28, 2023 Meeting of the City Council (CC) Motion carried to approve as submitted.
9. Liability Claims Filed Against the City of Santa Cruz (FN) Motion carried to reject the liability claims of 1) Laural Pannabecker and 2) Davida Seliger, based on staff recommendation.
10. Santa Cruz Police Officers' Association and Santa Cruz Police Management Association Tentative Agreements for Successor Memoranda of Understanding (HR)
Mayor Keeley opened the public comment period. The following people spoke.
Leanne Sherwood
Reggie Meisler
Greg Benson
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Mayor Keeley closed the public comment period.
11.6 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6399
Consent Agenda (continued)
10. Santa Cruz Police Officers' Association and Santa Cruz Police Management Association Tentative Agreements for Successor Memoranda of Understanding (HR) (continued)
MOTION: Councilmember Brown moved, seconded by Councilmember Kalantari-Johnson, to adopt Resolution No. NS-30,117 approving tentative agreements with the Police Officers' Association effective March 4, 2023, through March 4, 2026; and Police Management Association effective March 4, 2023, through March 13, 2027.
ACTION: The motion carried unanimously with the following vote.
AYES: Councilmembers Newsome, Brown, Watkins, Brunner,
Kalantari-Johnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
DISQUALIFIED: None.
11. Project Management Support for Information Technology System Implementation (IT)
Motion carried to approve scope of work amendment with HDR, Inc. to extend Project Management Services in support of the City’s implementation of Cityworks, a Computerized Maintenance Management System, and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract amendment in a form approved by the City Attorney.
12. Chestnut Street Storm Drain Replacement and Pavement Rehabilitation (c401505) – Notice of Completion (PW)
Motion carried to accept the work of Granite Rock, Inc. (Watsonville, CA) as completed per the plans and specifications and authorize the filing of the Notice of Completion for Chestnut Street Storm Drain Replacement and Pavement Rehabilitation (c401505).
11.7 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6400
Consent Agenda (continued)
13. 3rd Quarter FY 2023 Water Department Capital Investment Program Transfer – Budget Adjustment (WT)
Resolution No. NS-30,118 was adopted amending the FY 2023 budget and transferring budget appropriations within the Water Department Capital Investment Program (CIP) to update various project budgets with current cost forecasts.
14. Newell Creek Instream Habitat Restoration – Large Woody Debris Project – Approval of CEQA Exemption, Plans and Specifications, and Authorization to Advertise for Bids and Award Contract (WT)
Motion carried to approve the Plans and Specifications for the Newell Creek Instream Habitat Restoration – Large Woody Debris Project (c701606) and authorize staff to advertise for bids and find the Project exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act. The City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to execute the contract as authorized by Resolution No. NS27,563. The Water Director is authorized to execute change orders within the approved project budget.
End Consent Agenda
11.8 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6401
Public Hearings
15. Appeal of the Transportation and Public Works Commission’s Approval of Parking Removal on Laurel Street as part of the Laurel Street Vision Zero Striping Improvements Plan (m400029) (PW)
Transportation Manager M. Starkey, Transportation Planner C. Gallogly, and Police Lieutenant W. Morey gave a presentation and responded to Councilmember questions.
Appellant Robin Belkin spoke regarding this item.
Director of Public Works N. Nguyen responded to Councilmember questions.
Mayor Keeley opened the public comment period. The following people spoke.
Andrew Jarvis
Unidentified person
Norian Wilder
Chris Sager
Jonathan Goren
Susan Monheit
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Kay Kotanaguchi
Pauline Seales
Michelle Taniguchi
Crystine Hawley
Unidentified person
Ron Goodman
Bodie Shargel
Ryan Meckel
Nairi
Garrett
Keresha Durham
Kyle Kelley
Lola Quiroga
Candace Brown
Phil Boutelle
Mayor Keeley closed the public comment period.
Appellant Robin Belkin provided a rebuttal.
11.9 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6402
Public Hearings (continued)
15. Appeal of the Transportation and Public Works Commission’s Approval of Parking Removal on Laurel Street as part of the Laurel Street Vision Zero Striping Improvements Plan (m400029) (PW) (continued)
MOTION: Councilmember Kalantari-Johnson moved, seconded by Councilmember Newsome, to:
Adopt Resolution No. NS-30,119 denying the appeal and upholding the Transportation and Public Works Commission’s (Commission) approval of the design and installation of the proposed striping on Laurel Street between Mission Street and Chestnut Street, including mitigation conditions set forth by the Commission and, to the extent possible, ensure the Commission’s mitigation conditions are implemented prior to or simultaneous to striping and removing of parking; and
Direct staff to continue to pursue grant funding to increase lighting on Laurel Street; and
Direct staff to pursue additional diagonal parking on Myrtle Street with neighbors.
FRIENDLY AMENDMENT: Mayor Keeley requested to amend the motion and add: Direct the City Manager to return at budget hearings with a plan for installing safety devices that prohibit loitering on islands or medians at the City’s ten most busy intersections. Councilmembers Kalantari-Johnson and Newsome accepted.
ACTION: The motion carried unanimously with the following vote.
AYES: Councilmembers Newsome, Brown, Watkins, Brunner,
Kalantari-Johnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
DISQUALIFIED: None.
Council took a break at 4:55 p.m. and returned at 5:16 p.m.
11.10 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6403
Public Hearings (continued)
16. 2023-2024 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan, Amendment to the 2019-2020 HUD, Amendment to the 2020-2025 Consolidated Plan, and Amendment to the Citizen Participation Plan (ED) Principal Management Analyst J. Mellor and Housing and Community Development Manager J. de Wit gave a presentation and responded to Councilmember questions.
Mayor Keeley opened the public comment period. The following people spoke.
Gary Reece
Unidentified person
Jessie Bond
Unidentified person
Peter Bichier
Darius Mohsenin
Mayor Keeley closed the public comment period.
Director of Parks and Recreation T. Elliot responded to Councilmember questions.
MOTION: Councilmember Newsome moved, seconded by Councilmember Watkins, to:
Make initial funding recommendations for the 2023-2024 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan for both Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME).
Amend the 2019-2020 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and direct staff to submit to HUD for approval.
Direct staff to submit the 2023 Lower Ocean/Downtown/River Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) Plan as an amendment to the 2020-2025 Consolidated Plan.
Amend the Citizen Participation Plan (CPP) to reflect the merger of the Community Programs Committee with the Health in All Policies Committee and amend the public input schedule for all HUD Plans.
11.11 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6404
Public Hearings (continued)
16. 2023-2024 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan, Amendment to the 2019-2020 HUD, Amendment to the 2020-2025 Consolidated Plan, and Amendment to the Citizen Participation Plan (ED) ACTION: The motion carried unanimously with the following vote.
AYES: Councilmembers Newsome, Brown, Watkins, Brunner,
Kalantari-Johnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
DISQUALIFIED: None.
Council took a break at 5:53 p.m. and returned at 6:26 p.m.
Mayor Keeley reordered the agenda and heard item 17 at this time.
Oral Communications Announcement - The Mayor provided a brief announcement about Oral Communications.
Oral Communications
At 9:01 p.m. Mayor Keeley opened Oral Communications for members of the public who wished to speak regarding items not listed on the City Council agenda.
Unidentified person spoke regarding Quimby fees.
Unidentified person spoke regarding West Cliff Drive sustainability.
Alicia Kuhl spoke regarding a 24-hour warming center, motel vouchers, or emergency shelter during crisis events, in support of Food Not Bombs, and the safety of women and the unsheltered community.
Unidentified person spoke regarding the victimization of vehicle owners on Ocean Street.
Unidentified person spoke in support of Food Not Bombs, and the need for public amenities such as water fountains.
At 9:15 p.m. Mayor Keeley closed Oral Communications.
11.12 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6405
Public Hearing
17. Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Design Permit, Lot-line Adjustment, Density Bonus Request, and Heritage Tree Removal Permit to Demolish the Existing Surface Parking Lot and Structures and Construct the Downtown Library Affordable Housing Project, Encompassing Development of a New, Approximately 273,194 Square-Foot, Eight-Story Building Including a Three-story, Approximately 38,069 Square-Foot City Library Featuring Two Floors; a Three-Story Parking Garage with 243 Parking Spaces; a Five-Story, 100% Affordable Housing Component Comprising 124 Residential Units; a Three-Story, Approximately 9,598 Square-Foot Commercial Tenant Space; a One-Story, Approximately 1,231 Square-Foot Childcare Facility with Adjoining 674 Square-Foot Outdoor Play Area; and New Landscaping and Associated Site Improvements, Including Removal of 12 Trees, on Land Located in the CBD/FP-O (Central Business District/Floodplain Overlay Zone Districts) and within the Cedar Street Village Corridor and Pacific Avenue Retail District Subareas of the Downtown Plan (Environmental Review:
Statutory Exemption – Section 21083.3 / State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183; Categorical Exemptions Sections 15532 and 15305) (PL)
Senior Planner T. Maier gave a presentation and responded to Councilmember questions.
Mayor Keeley opened the public comment period. The following people spoke.
Jane Doyle
Laura Marcus
Nettie Calvin
Rene Baez
Keresha Durham
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Joanne Katzen
Lizbeth Aveliz
Susan Cavalieri
Unidentified person
Kyle Kelley
Unidentified person
John Hall
Dena Lojios
Barbara Riverwoman
Eric Grodberg
Coral Brune
Lara Filipini
11.13 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6406
Public Hearing (continued)
17. Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Design Permit, Lot-line Adjustment, Density Bonus Request, and Heritage Tree Removal Permit to Demolish the Existing Surface Parking Lot and Structures and Construct the Downtown Library Affordable Housing Project (PL) (continued)
Public comment (continued)
Darius Mohsenin
Fred [last name unintelligible]
Mary Odegaard
Unidentified person
Lisa Ekstrom
Kalisha Webster
Eileen Balian
Unidentified person
Janice O’Driscoll
Grace Stetson
Norian Wilder
Jim Mekis
Candace Brown
Unidentified person
Alison Kuhl
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Elaine Johnson
Lynda Marin
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Mayor Keeley closed the public comment period.
Abe Jayson, with Jayson Architecture, and Jim Rendler, with For Future Housing, responded to Councilmember questions.
MOTION: Councilmember Brown moved, to:
Approve the Heritage tree removal permit TR-22-201, applied for on October 12, 2022, for removal of the following trees on Lot 4 (using tree numerical designations established in the Dyad arborist report of January 18, 2022): tree #s 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, conditional upon City Council approval of a building permit for the Library Affordable Housing Project on Lot 4.
11.14 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6407
Public Hearing (continued)
17. Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Design Permit, Lot-line Adjustment, Density Bonus Request, and Heritage Tree Removal Permit to Demolish the Existing Surface Parking Lot and Structures and Construct the Downtown Library Affordable Housing Project (PL) (continued)
MOTION (continued):
Direct that city staff have the Library, Affordable Housing Project developer and project architect develop an alternative conceptual design for the Library, Affordable Housing Project that could accommodate the two liquidambar, tree #s 10 and 11, to be provided to the City Council no later than May 1, 2023.
Direct that the alternative conceptual design for the Library Affordable Housing Project shall not sacrifice any programmatic goals of the Downtown Library or the childcare center.
Direct that city staff have the Library Affordable Housing Project developer and project architect consider in its alternative conceptual design for the Library Affordable Housing Project the possibility of incorporating tree #5, a non-Heritage tree, into the outdoor space of the childcare center of the Library, Affordable Housing Project.
Pursuant to these requests, direct that the Council, at its next meeting following the provision of the alternative conceptual design, make a decision either to affirm that the final design will accommodate Heritage tree #s 10 and 11 (and possibly non-Heritage tree #5) as provided in the alternative design or approve the Heritage tree removal permit for Heritage tree #s 10 and 11, conditional upon City Council approval of a building permit for the Library Affordable Housing Project on Lot 4. Affirm that for the purposes of seeking sources of funding for the Library, Affordable Housing Project, this motion establishes a decision framework for final development of architectural construction plans, and that the decision concerning which alternative to pursue shall have no effect on final issuance of a building permit for the Library Affordable Housing Project.
Motion failed due to lack of a second.
11.15 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6408
Public Hearing (continued)
17. Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Design Permit, Lot-line Adjustment, Density Bonus Request, and Heritage Tree Removal Permit to Demolish the Existing Surface Parking Lot and Structures and Construct the Downtown Library Affordable Housing Project (PL) (continued)
MOTION: Councilmember Newsome moved, seconded by Vice Mayor Golder, to adopt Resolution No. NS-30,120 acknowledging the environmental determination and approving the Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Design Permit, Lot-line Adjustment, and Density Bonus request, and upholding the Parks and Recreation Commission’s approval of the Heritage Tree Removal Permit, allowing demolition of the existing surface parking lot and structures, removal of the existing trees, and construction of the Library Affordable Housing Project, based on the finding, including the staff modification of Conditions #74 and 75, and with the following revision to Condition #73 of the Conditions of Approval:
74 Electric Vehicle Parking: 25 parking spaces shall be provided with Level 2 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) before occupancy; 99 additional parking spaces shall provide the electrical capacity to add Level 1 EVCS in the future electrical infrastructure for future expansion shall also be incorporated in the design, including conduit.
75 Accommodation of Future Food Service Use: All The ground floor commercial spaces shall be constructed to accommodate a future food service use. Plans shall also show the locations of grease traps, grease lines, and grease storage facilities.
Revise condition #73 Tree Replacement: (modifications underlined):
A total of nine fourteen (14) 24-inch box size replacement street trees will shall be installed around the proposed library building to replace the nine Heritage Trees to be removed to accommodate the proposed project.
Additionally, City staff will plant twelve (12) street trees, of 24-inch box size, at off-site locations within the City’s greater downtown area.
Locations and species shall be identified by the Parks & Recreation Department, consistent with the Downtown Plan and Approved Street Tree List. Additionally, another ten (10) trees shall also be planted in the greater downtown area. In total, 21 thirty-six (36) replacement street trees will be installed in the greater downtown area to offset the nine Heritage Trees currently proposed for removal at the library site. All such trees shall be planted prior to issuance of certificate of occupancy for any affordable housing unit.
11.16 March 14, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6409
Public Hearing (continued)
17. Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Design Permit, Lot-line Adjustment, Density Bonus Request, and Heritage Tree Removal Permit to Demolish the Existing Surface Parking Lot and Structures and Construct the Downtown Library Affordable Housing Project (PL) (continued)
FRIENDLY AMENDMENT: Mayor Keeley requested to add:
Condition #76 Magnolia Tree Reuse: When removal of the magnolia trees occurs, staff shall evaluate whether wood from the magnolias can be salvaged for use on-site as benches, tables, artwork, play equipment, or other amenities in coordination with the project architects.
Councilmember Newsome and Vice Mayor Golder accepted.
ACTION: The motion carried as amended with the following vote.
AYES: Councilmembers Newsome, Watkins, Kalantari-Johnson; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
NOES: Councilmember Brown.
ABSENT: None.
DISQUALIFIED: Councilmember Brunner.
Adjournment – Vice Mayor Golder moved, seconded by Councilmember Watkins, to adjourn the meeting. By consensus, the City Council adjourned at 9:15 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted:
Julia Wood, Deputy City Clerk Administrator
Attest:
Bonnie Bush, City Clerk Administrator
Approved:
Fred Keeley, Mayor
11.17 MINUTES ARE UNOFFICIAL UNTIL APPROVED BY COUNCIL
City of Santa Cruz
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
MINUTES OF A CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING
March 20, 2023
City Council
6:00 PM
Call to Order – Vice Mayor Golder called the meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. in Council Chambers.
Roll Call
Present: Councilmembers Newsome, Brown, Watkins, Brunner; Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley (arrived at 6:11 p.m.).
Absent: Councilmember Kalantari-Johnson.
Staff: City Manager M. Huffaker (via Zoom), City Attorney T. Condotti, Finance Director E. Cabell (via Zoom), Fire Chief R. Oatey (via Zoom), Chief People Officer S. De Leon (via Zoom), Director of Parks and Recreation T. Elliot (via Zoom), Director of Public Works N. Nguyen, Director of Planning and Community Development L. Butler, Senior Planner T.
Maier, Deputy City Clerk Administrator J. Wood, City Clerk Administrator B. Bush.
Public Hearing
1. Design Permit, Slope Modification Permit/Slope Variance, and Watercourse Variance to Construct Segments 8 and 9 of the Coastal Rail Trail, a 2.2-Mile Bicycle and Pedestrian System Extending Along the Railroad Corridor (Owned by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission) from the Beach Street/Pacific Avenue Roundabout on the West, to the Eastern Side of 17th Avenue on the East, and Excluding the Recently-Constructed San Lorenzo River Trestle Bridge Improvements (Environmental Review: Environmental Impact Report) (PL)
Senior Planner T. Maier gave a presentation and responded to Councilmember questions.
Kate Elliott, Director of Environmental Planning and Compliance with Harris and Associates, spoke and responded with Councilmember questions.
12.1 March 20, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 4917
Public Hearing (continued)
1. Segments 8 and 9 of the Coastal Rail Trail, a 2.2-Mile Bicycle and Pedestrian System Extending Along the Railroad Corridor (PL) (continued) Director of Public Works N. Nguyen responded to Councilmember questions.
Mayor Keeley opened the public comment period. The following people spoke.
Grace Pariaute
Rob Tidmore
David
Saladine Sale
Brian Peoples
Johana Lighthill
Tim Brattan
Unidentified person
JT Rueppel
Isaiah Berke
Unidentified person
Unidentified person
Matt Farrell
Unidentified person
Tina Andreatta
Lani Faulkner
Unidentified person
Kim Salisbury
Dan Kambitsch
Faina Segal
Pat Kittle
David Van Brink
Maura Kelsea
Pauline Seales
Eva Leuthold
Michael Lewis
Michael Browlee
Robin Belkin
Barry Scott
Ryan Sarnataro
Mayor Keeley closed the public comment period.
12.2 March 20, 2023 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 4918
Public Hearing (continued)
1. Segments 8 and 9 of the Coastal Rail Trail, a 2.2-Mile Bicycle and Pedestrian System Extending Along the Railroad Corridor (PL) (continued) MOTION: Councilmember Brown moved, seconded by Councilmember Brunner, to:
Adopt Resolution No. NS-30,121 certifying the Environmental Impact Report (EIR); and
Adopt Resolution No. NS-30,122 adopting Findings of Fact, a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), and a Statement of Overriding Conditions; and
Adopt Resolution No. NS-30,123 approving the Design Permit, Slope Modification Permit, Slope Variance, and Watercourse Variance.
ACTION: The motion carried unanimously with the following vote.
AYES: Councilmembers Newsome, Brown, Watkins, Brunner, Vice Mayor Golder; Mayor Keeley.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Councilmember Kalantari-Johnson.
DISQUALIFIED: None.
Adjournment – Vice Mayor Golder moved, seconded by Councilmember Newsome, to adjourn the meeting. By consensus, the City Council adjourned at 7:35 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted:
Julia Wood, Deputy City Clerk Administrator
Attest:
Bonnie Bush, City Clerk Administrator
Approved:
Fred Keeley, Mayor
12.3 City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/16/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: City Clerk
SUBJECT: Santa Cruz County Hazardous Materials Advisory Commission Nomination (CC)
RECOMMENDATION: Motion to nominate Bob Nelson, Public Works Operations Manager, for appointment by the County Board of Supervisors to the County Hazardous Materials Advisory Commission.
BACKGROUND: The Santa Cruz County Hazardous Materials Advisory Commission advises the Board of Supervisors on the initial and continuous implementation of the County’s Hazardous Materials Ordinance. This includes effective methods of providing the public with information on all other matters pertaining to the use, transportation, handling, and storage of hazardous materials affecting the County.
The Commission consists of eleven members, one being a City of Santa Cruz representative. The City of Santa Cruz has one nomination to the Santa Cruz County Hazardous Materials Advisory Commission, with the appointment being made by the County Board of Supervisors. The City’s current representative, Rob Young, has a term expiring April 1, 2023.
DISCUSSION: Given the scope and role of the County Hazardous Materials Advisory Commission, staff is requesting that Council nominate Bob Nelson, Public Works Operations Manager, for appointment.
FISCAL IMPACT: None.
Prepared By:
Bonnie Bush
City Clerk
Submitted By:
Laura Schmidt
Assistant City Manager
Approved By:
Matt Huffaker
City Manager
ATTACHMENTS:
None.
13.1 City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/20/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: City Council
SUBJECT: Senate Bill 43 – Conservatorship Reform and SB 363 – Behavioral Health Bed Database (CN)
RECOMMENDATION: Motion to direct the Mayor to send letters to support Senate Bill 43 – Conservatorship Reform and SB 363 – Behavioral Health Bed Database.
BACKGROUND: State Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), the Big City Mayors coalition, NAMI California, the California State Association of Psychiatrists, and the Psychiatric Physicians’ Alliance of California have sponsored two landmark pieces of legislation which are intended to overhaul the state’s behavioral health care system, otherwise referred to as “conservatorship laws”. Below is a brief description of both bills.
SB 43 – Conservatorship Reform: Under current law, a petition for conservatorship can be filed when a person is “gravely disabled.” When a petition is made, a temporary conservatorship can be established and a conservatorship investigation commences. This bill would ensure that the court is able to consider relevant testimony related to medical history in the medical record during conservatorship proceedings by creating a hearsay exception for medical history contained in the medical record.
This bill would also modernize the definition of “gravely disabled” within the Lanterman-PetrisShort (LPS) Act to better meet the needs of individuals experiencing severe mental illness. SB 43 would include under the definition of “gravely disabled” a condition in which, as a result of a mental health disorder or substance use disorder, there is a substantial risk of serious harm to a person’s mental or physical health.
The LPS Act of 1967 was the state’s attempt to deinstitutionalize those experiencing serious mental health disorders and shift to community based services. Unfortunately, following the closure of many state institutions, those services did not follow. Changes at both the state and federal level followed, further slashing federal funding for community mental health and shifting mental health program responsibility to the counties. Voters then passed the Mental Health Services Act in 2004 to provide dedicated funding for community supports and services, and prevention and early intervention.
The law establishes the rights, protections, and process for the provision of involuntary behavioral health treatment for someone who is “gravely disabled” or a danger to themselves or
14.1 others. LPS consists of various evaluation and treatment periods, ranging from 72-hours up to renewable periods of one year under a conservatorship.
SB 363 – Behavioral Health Bed Database: SB 363 would establish a real-time, internet-based dashboard to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and licensed residential alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. Access to an up-to-date database of available beds helps providers quickly find and secure treatment for clients in appropriate settings, reducing delays or extended stays in emergency rooms.
Many individuals receive initial assessment and stabilization for a psychiatric crisis in the emergency department, which is a crucial piece of the safety net for individuals with difficulty accessing mental health services including those who lack awareness of their own mental health condition. However, due to a combination of a difficult to navigate crisis response system which lacks adequate capacity - an environment not conducive to the stabilization of psychiatric crisis - and a lack of mental health programs, facilities and professionals, individuals in crisis often languish untreated in emergency departments for long periods of time as ED staff struggle to find open beds.
DISCUSSION: Both of these proposed bills are aligned with the Council's Homelessness Response Three Year Action Plan adopted in 2022. These bills will improve to the State’s conservatorship laws to better address the current mental health and substance use crisis occurring in our cities by providing a mechanism to provide care for those who cannot care for themselves. The laws are meant to address the cycle that many individuals with severe mental illness face between homelessness and treatment, filling emergency rooms, incarceration overdose, or death.
Council recommends having the Mayor submit letters of support for SB 363 to Senator Umberg, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee and for SB 43 to Senator Eggman, Chairwoman, and members of the Senate Health Committee.
FISCAL IMPACT: Support for the legislation has no fiscal impact.
Submitted By:
Renee Golder
Vice Mayor
Submitted By:
Sonja Brunner
Councilmember
Submitted By:
Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson
Councilmember
ATTACHMENTS:
1. BILL TEXT - SB 43 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.PDF
2. BILL TEXT - SB 363 FACILITIES FOR INPATIENT AND RESIDENTIAL MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER.PDF
3. SB 43 SUPPORT LETTER - SENATOR EGGMAN.DOCX
4. SB 363 SUPPORT LETTER -SENATOR UMBERG.DOCX
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Senator Eggman, Chair
Senate Health Committee
1021 O Street, Room 3310
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: Senate Bill 43: Behavioral Health - SUPPORT
Dear Senator Eggman and Members of the Senate Health Committee, On behalf of the City of Santa Cruz I would like to express our support of Senate Bill 43 (Eggman). SB 43, would update the definition of “gravely disabled” to include a new focus on preventing serious physical and mental harm stemming from a person’s inability to provide for their needs for nourishment, personal or medical care, shelter, or attend to self-protection or personal safety, due to their mental or substance use disorder. When making a determination about the risk of harm, the bill would required the court to consider when a person is unable to appreciate the nature of their disorder and that their decision-making is impaired due to their lack of insight into their mental or medical disorders.
It would also create a hearsay exemption for information contained in a medical record, presented by an expert witness, in order to ensure all relevant information is presented to, and considered by, the court when making a gravely disabled determination.
The focus of the gravely disabled definition solely on the ability to provide for one’s food, clothing, and shelter is inadequate to address the real needs in our communities and often leads to criminalization and jail rather than treatment. This standard has remained largely unchanged since 1967 and has become a serious barrier to needed treatment for those at risk of dying on our streets. We are in the midst of a worsening behavioral health crisis and the failure to address this definition has led to tragedy for more and more families desperate to get help for their loved ones.
For these reasons, we support SB 43 in updating the LPS Act to ensure that when involuntary treatment becomes necessary as a last resort, services will be available with all of the existing due process protections.
Sincerely,
Fred Keeley
Mayor
14.12 March 28, 2023
Thomas Umberg
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
1021 O Street, Room 3240
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SB 363 (Eggman) Behavioral Health Bed Database - SUPPORT Dear Chairman Umberg,
The City of Santa Cruz is proud to support SB 363 (Eggman), which would require, by January 1, 2025, a real-time behavioral health bed database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in a in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and licensed residential alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. This information would help provide timely access to care and increase coordination between service settings.
A significant roadblock in our fragmented behavioral health continuum is a lack of care coordination between various provider types and a lack of information about which resources are accessible or available in the community. SB 363 would require the database to include a minimum baseline of information, including the contact information for a facility’s designated employee, the types of diagnosis or treatments for which the bed is appropriate, and the target populations served at the facility. The database would also have the capacity to enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for individuals in need of inpatient or residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment.
Furthermore, SB 363 would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to impose a plan of correction to ensure that data is submitted in an accurate and timely manner.
For these reasons, City of Santa Cruz is pleased to support SB 363 (Eggman) and would like to urge your aye vote on this measure.
Sincerely,
Fred Keeley
Mayor
cc: Members, Senate Judiciary Committee
Senator Susan Eggman
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Rosemary Balsley
From: Rhonda Reyna <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2023 9:32 PM
To: City Council
Subject: [CAUTION: Verify Sender Before Opening!] Correspondence 03.28.23 Council Agenda Item #14 Conservatorship Reform SB 43
Attachments: Letter to City council SB 43.docx
Honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council
I am writing in opposition to Senate Bill 43‐Conservatorship Reform, as I am deeply concerned about this bill because it is clearly a medical kidnapping bill that would foment further abuse of judicial discretion and the use of fraudulent medical reports to deprive people of their civil rights secured by the Constitution, such as we have already seen in the Family Court kidnappings of three Santa Cruz children in our community in 2021 and 2022.
I was deeply disturbed to pull up the City of Santa Cruz agenda and read Mayor Keely's support of SB 43, specifically that the bill would provide a Hearsay exemption for information in a medical report presented by an "expert witness". Anyone who took an oath office should not and cannot support this bill for it’s egregious violation of law.
This is dangerous. The age of experts is over and what we are seeing is the weaponization of medical and mental health testimony used to deprive people of their rights and kidnap them under color of law.
The subjective language of what constitutes "disabled or threat to oneself" enables a bought off, bribed judge to kidnap someone and steal their assets which was exemplified in the movie "I care a lot". The judge would simply rely upon fraudulent testimony in a medical report and put his stamp of approval on it rather than hear vigorous voir dire and cross examination of the so called expert to bring into question the information upon which they are rendering an opinion. Opinions are not facts and must not be overly weighted. Only the trier of facts can make decisions based upon facts.
Locally, the "reunification therapists" Lynn Steinberg, Regina Marshall and Rebecca Bailey have been used to present therapeudic jurisprudence to court kidnap three Santa Cruz children from their safe parents. SB 43 opens the door for collusion with civil court judges.
Medical practitioners are easy to bribe, we see this every day. I will call to your attention the false report of Dr. Nancy Read who was paid to write a false report about a protective mother in order to facilitate the court kidnapping of her daughter, B.M. The Mother filed her own objection to the court, which was upheld. People v Coleman (1985) addressed inadmissible hearsay evidence and was upheld in the decision of Reyna v Murdoch (2021) along with many other factors of the false, perjury testimony of Dr. Nancy Read. The language of these documents are self‐explanatory and attached below.
The Mother has filed a complaint to the California Board of Psychology which was acknowledged in a letter dated June 14, 2022, BOP Case number 6002022000532. Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Jon Bush received a copy of this complaint via email on July 1, 2022 at 8:55AM. The complaint contains evidence that Dr. Nancy Read violated 12 Professional and ethics codes including Standard 3.04 Avoiding Harm, Standard 9.01 Bases
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for Assessment ( a multi prong assessment where she did not perform any parental clinical interviews, no parent‐child assessment, no child assessment, no examination of relevant collateral sources and many other failures) , and Standard 3.01 Informed consent (she never obtained consent). This should serve as an example of how untrustworthy medical and mental health practitioners have become. Dr. Read is part of the Association of Family and Conciliatory Courts (AFCC) for which researcher Doreen Ludwig published a book exposing their Fraud Upon the Court and racketeering schemes used to harm and kidnap children for profit. https://www.amazon.com/AFCC‐net‐Practices‐Intrude‐ Determinations/dp/B08L9R29X8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HPQ2RGAFFYY5&keywords=AFCC+net&qid=1679854364& sprefix=acc+net%2Caps%2C410&sr=8‐1
I will further call your attention to the recent ruling In the Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District, Johnston‐Rossi v. Rossi (2023) where the court reversed the decision of the family court to force children to participate in the nefarious Family Bridges, a program run by Dr. Rebecca Bailey, (who is also involved in the court kidnapping of B.M.), which mandated no contact with the mother for a minimum of 90 days. Johnston‐Rossi claimed the court abused its discretion in denying her request to present testimony at the hearing and that the record did not contain substantial evidence. The appellate court agreed the court abused it’s discretion and reversed the December 22, 2021 order. https://casetext.com/case/johnston‐rossi‐v‐rossi.
It should be further noted that Dr. Rebecca Bailey has been under investigation for two decades for abusive, dishonest and harmful practices of separating children from their protective parents, and is paid large sums of money by the fathers who are colluding with family law attorneys to do this. A complaint was filed with the California Board of Psychology and acknowledged on May 26, 2022, Case number 6002022000490. The complaint contains evidence that Dr. Rebecca Bailey violated 12 Professional and ethics codes including Standard 3.04 Avoiding Harm, Standard 9.01 Bases for Assessment ( a multi prong assessment where she did not perform appropriate parental clinical interviews, no parent‐child assessment, no child assessment, no examination of relevant collateral sources and many other failures) , and Standard 3.01 Informed consent (she never obtained consent from both parents). Dr. Rebecca Bailey has perpetrated crimes against humanity. Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Jon Bush received a copy of this complaint via email on July 1, 2022 at 8:55AM.
Senate Bill 43 is a medical kidnapping bill containing subjective language and a hearsay exemption that would violate civil rights protected by the Constitution and amounts to expanding medical kidnapping under color of law which are Federal Offenses 18 USC §201, and 18 USC §§241, 242.
I am asking that the City Council not support Mayor Keeley’s endorsement of Eggman’s Bill.
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14.18 Honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council
I am writing in opposition to Senate Bill 43-Conservatorship Reform, as I am deeply concerned about this bill because it is clearly a medical kidnapping bill that would foment further abuse of judicial discretion and the use of fraudulent medical reports to deprive people of their civil rights secured by the Constitution, such as we have already seen in the Family Court kidnappings of three Santa Cruz children in our community in 2021 and 2022.
I was deeply disturbed to pull up the City of Santa Cruz agenda and read Mayor Keely's support of SB 43, specifically that the bill would provide a Hearsay exemption for information in a medical report presented by an "expert witness". Anyone who took an oath office should not and cannot support this bill for it’s egregious violation of law.
This is dangerous. The age of experts is over and what we are seeing is the weaponization of medical and mental health testimony used to deprive people of their rights and kidnap them under color of law.
The subjective language of what constitutes "disabled or threat to oneself" enables a bought off, bribed judge to kidnap someone and steal their assets which was exemplified in the movie "I care a lot". The judge would simply rely upon fraudulent testimony in a medical report and put his stamp of approval on it rather than hear vigorous voir dire and cross examination of the so called expert to bring into question the information upon which they are rendering an opinion. Opinions are not facts and must not be overly weighted. Only the trier of facts can make decisions based upon facts.
Locally, the "reunification therapists" Lynn Steinberg, Regina Marshall and Rebecca Bailey have been used to present therapeudic jurisprudence to court kidnap three Santa Cruz children from their safe parents. SB 43 opens the door for collusion with civil court judges.
Medical practitioners are easy to bribe, we see this every day. I will call to your attention the false report of Dr. Nancy Read who was paid to write a false report about a protective mother in order to facilitate the court kidnapping of her daughter, B.M. The Mother filed her own objection to the court, which was upheld. People v Coleman (1985) addressed inadmissible hearsay evidence and was upheld in the decision of Reyna v Murdoch (2021) along with many other factors of the false, perjury testimony of Dr. Nancy Read. The language of these documents are self-explanatory and attached below.
The Mother has filed a complaint to the California Board of Psychology which was acknowledged in a letter dated June 14, 2022, BOP Case number 6002022000532. Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Jon Bush received a copy of this complaint via email on July 1, 2022 at 8:55AM. The complaint contains evidence that Dr. Nancy Read violated 12 Professional and ethics codes including Standard 3.04 Avoiding Harm, Standard 9.01 Bases for Assessment ( a multi prong assessment where she did not perform any parental clinical interviews, no parentchild assessment, no child assessment, no examination of relevant collateral sources and many
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I will further call your attention to the recent ruling In the Court of Appeal of the State of California Second Appellate District, Johnston-Rossi v. Rossi (2023) where the court reversed the decision of the family court to force children to participate in the nefarious Family Bridges, a program run by Dr. Rebecca Bailey, (who is also involved in the court kidnapping of B.M.), which mandated no contact with the mother for a minimum of 90 days. Johnston-Rossi claimed the court abused its discretion in denying her request to present testimony at the hearing and that the record did not contain substantial evidence. The appellate court agreed the court abused it’s discretion and reversed the December 22, 2021 order. https://casetext.com/case/johnston-rossi-v-rossi.
It should be further noted that Dr. Rebecca Bailey has been under investigation for two decades for abusive, dishonest and harmful practices of separating children from their protective parents, and is paid large sums of money by the fathers who are colluding with family law attorneys to do this. A complaint was filed with the California Board of Psychology and acknowledged on May 26, 2022, Case number 6002022000490. The complaint contains evidence that Dr. Rebecca Bailey violated 12 Professional and ethics codes including Standard
3.04 Avoiding Harm, Standard 9.01 Bases for Assessment ( a multi prong assessment where she did not perform appropriate parental clinical interviews, no parent-child assessment, no child assessment, no examination of relevant collateral sources and many other failures) , and Standard 3.01 Informed consent (she never obtained consent from both parents). Dr. Rebecca Bailey has perpetrated crimes against humanity. Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Jon Bush received a copy of this complaint via email on July 1, 2022 at 8:55AM.
Senate Bill 43 is a medical kidnapping bill containing subjective language and a hearsay exemption that would violate civil rights protected by the Constitution and amounts to expanding medical kidnapping under color of law which are Federal Offenses 18 USC §201, and 18 USC §§241, 242.
I am asking that the City Council not support Mayor Keeley’s endorsement of Eggman’s Bill.
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City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/16/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: Economic Development and Housing
SUBJECT: Wharf Reinforcement Project (c512203) – Notice of Completion (ED) RECOMMENDATION: Motion to accept the work of Power Engineering Construction Company as complete per the plans and specifications and authorize the filing of the Notice of Completion for the Wharf Reinforcement Project (c512203).
BACKGROUND: The former Miramar restaurant located at 45 Municipal Wharf was demolished in 2019. The building’s deteriorated physical condition, the expense necessary to bring it up to Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, and required replacement/upgrades of fixtures and equipment led to the necessity of demolishing the building.
In December 2021, Moffatt & Nichol, a marine engineering firm in contract with the City, conducted inspections of the site and developed plans and specifications to install twenty-six (26) new piles at the site, replace 7,900 sq.ft. of deteriorated decking, and strengthen the connection between the site and the adjoining 1914 section of the Wharf.
On March 8, 2022, the City Council approved the Wharf Reinforcement Project plans and specifications and authorized staff to advertise for bids and award the contract.
On June 29, 2022, the contract was awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder Power Engineering Construction Company in the amount of $1,084,300.
DISCUSSION: On March 7, 2023, the project was inspected by Moffatt & Nichol and found to be constructed in accordance with the plans and specifications.
FISCAL IMPACT: The project was completed at a total cost of $1,089,606.10 and was funded through the Economic Development Department’s Fiscal Year 2022 Capital Investment Program Wharf Reinforcement Project (c512203), which included a grant from the United States Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.
Prepared By:
Norman F. Daly
Development Manager
Submitted By:
Bonnie Lipscomb
Director of Economic
Development and Housing
Approved By:
Matt Huffaker
City Manager
ATTACHMENTS:
1. NOTICE OF COMPLETION.PDF
15.1 Notice of Completion (Revised Oct 2021)
(Space above for Recorder’s use only)
This instrument is being recorded for the benefit of the City of Santa Cruz.
No recording fee is required pursuant to Government Code § 27383.
NOTICE OF COMPLETION
(CA Civil Code Sections 8102 and 9204)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:
The undersigned is an authorized representative of the owner of the interest or estate stated below.
1. The Owner’s Name and Address. The Project owner is the City of Santa Cruz, a municipal corporation (the “City”). The City’s mailing address is 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz, California 95060. The City of Santa Cruz has the following interest in the subject Property described below: City Property
2. Project Title and Number. The full name of the work of improvement/public works project (the “Project”) which is the subject of this Notice of Completion is: Wharf Reinforcement Project c512203
3. Nature of Work Performed on the Property or Materials Furnished for the City. The Project consisted of work described as: Installation of new piles and decking and strengthening of Wharf structure connections.
4. The general site location description or address (the “Property”) of the public improvement is located at: 45 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
5. Name and Address of Contractor. The Contractor on the Project is: Power Engineering Construction Company, 1501 Viking St, Suite 200, Alameda, CA 94501.
6. Construction Lender. The name and address of the construction lender, if any, is: None
7. Date of Completion. The Project on the Property was completed on: March 7, 2023
8. The filing of this Notice of Completion was authorized by the Santa Cruz City Council Minute Order on Tuesday, March 28, 2023
DATE: ___________________
Bonnie Lipscomb
Director of Economic Development
City of Santa Cruz
RECORDED AT THE REQUEST OF:
City of Santa Cruz, Economic Development
Attn: Norman F. Daly
WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City Clerk’s Department
809 Center Street, Room 9
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
15.2 City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/16/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: Economic Development and Housing
SUBJECT: Approval of Second Amendment to Lease and Road Improvement Agreement with the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center at DeLaveaga Park and Related Authorizing Actions (ED) RECOMMENDATION: Resolution approving the Second Amendment to the Lease and Road Improvement Agreement with the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center and authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to negotiate and execute any amendments, subleases, or use agreements and related documents, in forms approved by the City Attorney.
BACKGROUND: The City and the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center (doing business as Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1) operates the Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 emergency communications and dispatch center on City owned property at DeLaveaga Park, generally known as 495 Upper Park Drive (portion of APN 009-301-06). The Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 constructed the approximately 12,000 square foot emergency communications center, telecommunications tower, and ancillary buildings (9-1-1 Center) under a 50-year Lease and Road Improvement Agreement with the City (c. 1994). The 9-1-1 Center is a critical part of regional public safety infrastructure and provides emergency dispatch and communications for incidents throughout Santa Cruz County. It is owned and operated by Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 as a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) and the Cities of Santa Cruz, Capitola, and Watsonville, and Santa Cruz County all share in the cost of operating the 9-1-1 Center, based upon the percentage of calls for service received within each jurisdiction.
To facilitate operations and offset operating charges to these agencies, the Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 occasionally enters into agreements or subleases with third-parties, including “associate User Agencies” and telecommunications companies seeking shared use of the tower and telecom building. According to the JPA, the City’s share of operating costs is reduced by nearly 1/3 of any revenues received by the agency, including use of the tower. In some years, such offsets have reduced the City’s required contributions by over $320,000; although the exact amount fluctuates as revenue opportunities rise and fade.
Equipment installed under any agreement or sublease typically requires a public planning process and building permits, as well as the City’s approval to use City property on which the 9-1-1 Center and telecom facilities are located. Existing lease terms and current City leasing standards are no longer consistent, leading to unnecessary delays and excess labor demands on City staff and the City Attorney’s office. To correct these issues, a Second Amendment to the Lease has been negotiated and approved by the Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 Board and City
16.1 Attorney for City Council consideration (Attachment 1). The Second Amendment establishes a clear process for the approval of agreements or subleases, clarifies maintenance responsibilities, and protects the City from liability. Additionally, staff recommends adopting a resolution that would allow the City Manager, or designee, to negotiate and approve future amendments, subleases, or use agreements on the leased premises, as needed to ensure consistency and expedite offsets to future operating costs (Attachment 2).
DISCUSSION: After nearly thirty years, City risk management and leasing standards have evolved significantly from the outdated terms in the existing lease. At the same time, operational considerations and telecom industry opportunities require a nimble yet clear approach to assignments or subleasing sought by Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 to offset operating costs. Under the existing lease, Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 is authorized to execute assignments with public agencies supporting the emergency telecommunications mission of the JPA, but City Council approval is required for any other assignment or sublease of the leased premises, including use of facilities owned by the Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 Center, like the communication tower. Over the years, several subleases with telecommunications providers like Cruzio and Verizon have generated revenues and operational benefits for the JPA, while also offsetting the cost of operations for partner agencies like the City of Santa Cruz.
As the City works to manage its own operating costs and workload, staff explored various revenue and property management approaches to subleasing 9-1-1 Center facilities. From this, staff determined streamlining the process to secure cost offsets by Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 would be more cost effective than an attempt at direct leasing and property management of nonCity facilities on City property.
The proposed recommendation will help streamline negotiations and reviews by updating lease language to allow for administrative approval of agreements that are necessary or fall within the scope of the Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 operations and lease. Additionally, the Second Amendment will reduce staff time and legal costs required to manage leases and subleases at the 9-1-1 Center and may improve negotiating conditions as opportunities arise to secure additional cost offsets. The Second Amendment will also help standardize any agreements by or with Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 by clearly specifying City standards and providing the means to easily update those requirements as needed. Lastly, the Second Amendment will update the existing lease with current City standards for indemnity and insurance, accessibility, and also clarifies conditions related to utilities, maintenance responsibilities, and subleasing or assignment, among others. Should any future agreements be proposed which significantly exceed the Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 lease site, scope, term, or JPA operated facilities, City Council approval would still be required rather than administrative approval.
FISCAL IMPACT: Based on past operating offsets, the City anticipates its share of operating costs reducing by approximately $10,000-$12,000 per telecommunications sublease. Pending the approval of the Second Amendment, the City will be better able to project total operating offset costs based on Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 reporting requirements outlined in the Second Amendment.
Prepared By:
David McCormic
Asset and Development
Manager
Submitted By:
Bonnie Lipscomb
Director of Economic
Development and Housing
Approved By:
Matt Huffaker
City Manager
16.2 ATTACHMENTS:
1. RESOLUTION.DOCX
2. SECOND AMENDMENT TO LEASE - COSC AND SCR911.PDF
16.3 RESOLUTION NO. NSRESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ APPROVING
THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE LEASE AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT
AGREEMENT WITH SANTA CRUZ CONSOLIDATED EMERGENCY
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, OR
DESIGNEE, TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY LEASE AMENDMENTS,
SUBLEASES, USE AGREEMENTS, OR RELATED DOCUMENTS FOR THE PREMISES LOCATED AT 495 UPPER PARK DRIVE
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Cruz is the owner of DeLaveaga Park; and, WHEREAS, The City of Santa Cruz is party to the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center Joint Powers Authority (“JPA”) and associated agreements obligating the City to contribute to operating and capital costs of Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1; and, WHEREAS, on March 30, 1994, the City executed a certain Lease and Road Improvement Agreement (“Lease”) with the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center (doing business as DBA) Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1) for construction and operation of a regional emergency communications center and related road improvements; and, WHEREAS, the Lease has a potential 99-year term ending on March 30, 2093, unless terminated sooner or otherwise extended; and,
WHEREAS, the terms and conditions of the Lease, including sections related to assignment or subleasing and maintenance responsibility, require regular updates to remain consistent with City standards, case law, and market conditions; and WHEREAS, it is in the City’s interest to facilitate revenue generation by Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 to offset operating costs and corresponding charges to the City of Santa Cruz; and, WHEREAS, authorization of amendments to the Lease and other potentially revenue generating agreements related to use of the property typically require approval of the City Council, unless otherwise authorized; and,
WHEREAS, regular Lease updates, and minor subleases or use agreements upon the leased premises or within JPA owned facilities, like the telecommunications tower, could be more efficiently and cost effectively achieved through an administrative process.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa Cruz that the City Manager, or designee, is authorized and directed to negotiate and execute any lease amendments, subleases, and use agreements together with any related documents, amendments, or extensions for uses consistent with the Lease, as may be amended, or for use of telecommunications infrastructure on site, each in a form approved by the City Attorney, and with the Santa Cruz Consolidated Emergency Communications Center (DBA Santa Cruz Regional 9- 1-1) or its agents, assignees, subcontractors, or sublessees.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 28th day of March, 2023, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
DISQUALIFIED:
APPROVED: ______________________________
Fred Keeley, Mayor
ATTEST: _________________________________
Bonnie Bush, City Clerk Administrator
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City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/16/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: Economic Development and Housing
SUBJECT: Downtown Library and Affordable Housing Development Project Ground Lease Authorization for 119 Lincoln Street (ED)
RECOMMENDATION: Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into lease(s) and authorizing the Economic Development and Housing Director to execute any amendments or documents needed thereto of a non-substantive nature, in forms approved by the City Attorney, for real property located at 119 Lincoln Street (APN 005-141-21) between the City of Santa Cruz and DTLMU Investors, L.P. ( a California Limited Partnership), and/or or its affiliate(s), for the previously approved downtown library affordable housing project on the site.
BACKGROUND: On March 14, 2023, the City Council approved several entitlements related to the development project, the Downtown Library Affordable Housing Project (Project), located at 113 & 119 Lincoln Street to develop 124 units of affordable housing, a new downtown branch library, parking garage, childcare center, and commercial uses. The permits approved included a nonresidential demolition authorization permit, special use permit, heritage tree removal permit, design permit, density bonus request, and lot line adjustment. The City has fee simple interest of the parcel at 119 Lincoln Street (APN 005 141 21).
DISCUSSION: Efforts leading to the proposed development of the subject site began over a decade ago with the Santa Cruz Public libraries initiating a comprehensive facilities master planning process culminating in a Library Master Plan in 2014. Over the next several years, various council advisory and sub committees reviewed developing a project that later incorporated 124 units of affordable housing with a mix of affordability with 60% maximum average (local area median income) AMI or lower. The culmination of multiple public meetings and hearings resulted in the approval of the entitlements of the Downtown Project. In 2021, the City released a request for proposal (RFP) to solicit an affordable housing developer partner and selected a joint proposal from For The Future Housing and Eden Housing to build the Project.
For the Future Housing and Eden Housing partnered to form DTLMU Investors L.P. (a California Limited Partnership) as a joint venture to serve as the developer.
The City and/or the Project has received grant funding including the State Housing & Community Development’s Local Housing Trust Fund ($3.6 million), Permanent Local Housing Allocation ($1.55 million), Central Coast Community Energy Grant ($240 thousand) and a Fiscal Year 2023 federal budget appropriation of ($2 million). Per State funding requirements, the City needs to enter into a lease(s) with the affordable housing developer, For the Future Housing and/or Eden Housing or its affiliate to use the awarded funds.
17.1 Additionally, to be eligible for various public and private funding programs, the affordable housing developer must demonstrate site control of the parcels proposed for development. This site control may be in the form of a ground lease and given the City’s investment in the Project to date and desire for long-term downtown revitalization, staff recommends a ground lease to retain long-term site ownership by the City and control of various components of the Project, including the Library, parking garage and commercial selection for ongoing lease revenue. For example, the City project team and the Developer are seeking to jointly apply for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) round seven funding opportunity that is due April 4, 2023. Significant funding is available for this Project through AHSC for the affordable housing component but also additional funding for other City projects including Public Works Transportation Capital Improvement Program projects that improve bicycle and pedestrian safety. Demonstrating site control is an AHSC application requirement for the developer to secure funding.
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into lease(s) and authorizing the Economic Development and Housing Director to execute any amendments or documents needed thereto of a non-substantive nature, for the above-described City-owned parcel(s) with DTLMU Investors L.P. and/or For the Future Housing and/or Eden Housing, and/or its affiliate(s), for a minimum term of 55 years from Certificate of Occupancy at an annual lease fee of $1. The developer/lessee would be solely responsible for the development of the Project improvements and the ongoing operation and maintenance of the affordable rental housing during the lease term. Upon completion of the Project construction, the City would enter into separate leases with the commercial tenants as well as facilitate operating the parking garage component and Santa Cruz Public Libraries new downtown branch site.
Health in All Policies (HiAP)
HiAP is a collaborative approach to improving the health of all people by incorporating health considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. HiAP is based on 3 pillars:
equity, public health, and sustainability. The goal of HiAP is to ensure that all decision-makers are informed about the health, equity, and sustainability impacts of various policy options during the policy development process. The Project supports the pillar of equity by providing a destination public facility, childcare, commercial facility and affordable residential rental units on a site in the City’s downtown urban core, in an area that is improved with sidewalks and street trees near public transportation, commercial goods and services, and recreational areas.
With the Project located downtown, it encourages a sustainable and healthy lifestyle by allowing residents to walk, cycle, and ride to the job center and commercial uses in the downtown vicinity. By providing 100% affordable rental apartments, this will not only help the City with a more sustainable supply of rental housing but will also help create a more inclusive equitable community.
FISCAL IMPACT: There is no impact to the General Fund by the approval of the recommended action. Once the development is complete, significant enhancement to the downtown urban core will be achieved including improved sidewalks and bikeways adjacent to the project, a childcare facility, new commercial spaces, replacement parking supply, a new modernized accessible Downtown Library, and much-needed affordable housing achieving many policy goals of the City Council to enhance vitality and economy of downtown. The City will
17.2 receive increased revenue from future commercial tenants in the Project and the Downtown Parking District will receive a revenue stream from the managed parking supply.
Prepared By:
Brian Borguno
Development Manager
Submitted By:
Bonnie Lipscomb
Director of Economic
Development and Housing
Approved By:
Matt Huffaker
City Manager
ATTACHMENTS:
1. RESOLUTION.DOCX
17.3 RESOLUTION NO. NSRESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO LEASE(S) AND
AUTHORIZING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE ANY AMENDMENTS OR DOCUMENTS NEEDED THERETO OF A NONSUBSTANTIVE NATURE, IN A FORM APPROVED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 119 LINCOLN STREET (APN 005 141 21) All or a necessary quorum and majority of the City Council of the City of Santa Cruz, a California Municipal Corporation, (“City”) hereby consents to, adopts, and ratifies the following resolution:
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Cruz, applicant along with its Developer Partners For the Future Housing for property located at 119 Lincoln Street also known as Assessor’s Parcel Number 005 141 21, applied for a Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Heritage Tree Removal Permit, Design Permit and Lot- Line adjustment permit; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on February 23, 2023, and unanimously recommended approval of the project entitlements; and WHEREAS, on March 14, 2023, the City Council held a public hearing and approved the Nonresidential Demolition Authorization Permit, Special Use Permit, Heritage Tree Removal Permit, Design Permit and Lot- Line adjustment permit; and WHEREAS, the City, has fee simple interest in the parcel identified as 119 Lincoln Street (APN 005 141 21); and
WHEREAS, the City’s Economic Development and Housing Department is authorized to act as the trustee/manager in connection with its above-described fee simple parcel (Project); WHEREAS, the City, has been awarded grant funding including the State Housing & Community Development’s Local Housing Trust Fund ($3.6 million), Permanent Local Housing Allocation ($1.55 million), Central Coast Community Energy Grant ($240 thousand) and a Fiscal Year 2023 federal budget appropriations ($2 million). Per State funding requirements the City needs to enter into a lease(s) with the affordable housing developer, DTLMU Investors L.P. (a California limited partnership) and/or its affiliate(s) to use the awarded funds.
17.4 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa Cruz as follows:
In partnership with the Affordable Housing Developer, the City plans to redevelop the abovedescribed APN to create a 100% affordable housing rental project with a maximum average of 60% Area Median Income (AMI), a New Downtown Library Branch, a Childcare Center, Parking Garage and Commercial uses as the Downtown Library Affordable Housing Project.
SECTION 1. That the Economic Development and Housing Department is hereby authorized to act as the trustee/manager in connection with the City fee simple parcel pursuant to the abovedescribed City Council approval.
SECTION 2. Pursuant to State funding requirements, the City, shall enter into a ground lease with an affordable housing developer for the affordable housing portion of the City-owned project and may enter into separate leases for the Project’s commercial portion. The Project’s affordable housing ground lease shall supersede any prior existing lease and include but not be limited to the following terms: the Lessee shall be DTMLU Investors L.P. and/ or its affiliate(s), and the lease term shall be a minimum of fifty-five years from Certificate of Occupancy with $1 per year lease payment amount. The Lessee shall be solely responsible for the development of the Project improvements and ongoing operation and maintenance through the lease term. The funding awards referenced above remain committed for the Project and shall designate the Lessee as the loan recipient according to the various program funding requirements.
SECTION 3. City Manager is authorized to execute the project’s ground lease and leases, and the Economic Development and Housing Director is authorized to execute any subsequent amendments or modifications thereto, as well as any other related documents.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 28th day of March 2023, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
DISQUALIFIED:
APPROVED:
Fred Keeley, Mayor
ATTEST:
Bonnie Bush, City Clerk Administrator
17.5 City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/15/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: Finance
SUBJECT: Liability Claim Filed Against the City of Santa Cruz (FN) RECOMMENDATION: Motion to reject the liability claim of Russell E. Gross, based on staff recommendation.
BACKGROUND: N/A
DISCUSSION: I. Claim to be rejected:
1. Claimant: Russell E. Gross
Date of occurrence: 02/01/2023
Date of claim: 02/16/2023
Amount of claim: $239.87
Claimant seeks reimbursement for plumbing work performed on the wrong water meter.
Self-Represented
FISCAL IMPACT: N/A
Prepared By:
Ross Brandon
Risk & Safety Manager
Submitted By:
Elizabeth Cabell
Finance Director
Approved By:
Matt Huffaker
City Manager
ATTACHMENTS:
None.
18.1 City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/15/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: Finance
SUBJECT: Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022 (FN)
RECOMMENDATION: Receive and file the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), and related reports, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
BACKGROUND: Annually, the Finance Department prepares and publishes the City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) following the completion of an independent audit. The auditing firm of Eide Bailly, LLP conducted the audit for the year ended June 30, 2022, and has issued an unmodified opinion, the highest opinion given for financial statements. This opinion indicates that the financial statements represent fairly, in all material aspects, the financial position of the City in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAS) and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States (Government Auditing Standards).
The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) sponsors an award program for excellence in financial reporting. The City has received the award of excellence for nearly 20 years. City Staff believes the June 30, 2022, ACFR continues to maintain the high standards set by the GFOA and has submitted this year's ACFR for evaluation under this esteemed program.
DISCUSSION: State law requires that every general-purpose local government publish an annual report on its financial position and activity, and that the report be audited by an independent firm of certified public accountants. Taken together, the ACFR and the budget provide the best overview of the City’s fiscal health and opportunities for future financial stability. Because the ACFR is audited by an independent expert, the report provides additional assurance to the community that the City is being a responsible steward of the community’s tax dollars.
The City's financial statements, internal documents, and controls have been audited by Eide Bailly, LLP. The goal of the independent audit was to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements of the City for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 are free of material misstatements. The independent audit involved examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements; assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management; and evaluating the overall financial statement
19.1 presentation. The independent auditor’s report is presented as the first component of the financial section of the ACFR.
ACFR Organization
The City’s ACFR is organized into three major sections: Introductory, Financial, and Statistical.
The following is a brief summary of the contents of each of these sections:
1. Introductory Section: The letter of transmittal and other information of general interest are presented in this section including the organizational chart, directory of officials as well as the Government Finance Officers Association’s Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. The letter of transmittal is an opportunity for management to provide an overview of the City’s activities, prospective information as well as subjective information useful in assessing the City’s economic condition.
2. Financial Section: The financial section includes the report of the independent auditor, management’s discussion and analysis, basic financial statements (including notes), required supplementary information and related notes, combining statements (i.e., non-major funds), and individual fund financial statements and schedules.
3. Statistical Section: The statistical section offers operational, economic, and historical data that provides a context for assessing the City’s economic condition. Such data includes information on financial trends, information on revenue capacity, information on debt capacity, demographic and economic information, and operating information.
ACFR Financial Highlights
The audited financial statements presented will be government-wide, full accrual financial statements, as well as modified accrual fund financial statements prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), including compliance with pronouncements issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The report is designed to highlight changes in the City’s financial condition and practices over time and to allow consistencies between all state, municipal, and other governmental agencies.
The Council, and the community-at-large, can view the Transmittal Letter from Elizabeth Cabell, City of Santa Cruz’s Finance Director, and the Management’s Discussion and Analysis that contains the City’s financial highlights within the ACFR posted on the City’s website here:
https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/government/city-departments/finance/financial-reports.
The reports listed have been issued by Eide Bailly, LLP:
- Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR)
- Independent Auditors’ Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards
- Independent Accountants’ Report on Agreed-Upon Procedures Applied to Appropriations Limit Worksheets
- Audit Communication Letter
FISCAL IMPACT: None.
19.2 Prepared By:
Marisol Gómez
Assistant Director of Finance
Submitted By:
Elizabeth Cabell
Director of Finance
Approved By:
Matt Huffaker
City Manager
ATTACHMENTS:
1. AUDITORS’ INTERNAL CONTROL LETTER.PDF
2. APPROPRIATIONS LIMIT (GAAN) LETTER.PDF
3. AUDIT COMMUNICATION LETTER.PDF
19.3 What inspires you, inspires us. | eidebailly.com
4040 Campbell Ave., Ste. 200 | Menlo Park, CA 94025-1053 | T 650.522.3400 | F 650.645.7393 | EOE 1 Independent Auditor’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards
To the Honorable Mayor and
Members of the City Council of the
City of Santa Cruz, California
We have audited, in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the aggregate discretely presented component units, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of City of Santa Cruz, California, as of and for the year ended June 30, 2022, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise City of Santa Cruz, California’s basic financial statements and have issued our report thereon dated March 1, 2023.
Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements, we considered City of Santa Cruz, California 's internal control over financial reporting (internal control) as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances for the purpose of expressing our opinions on the financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of City of Santa Cruz, California’s internal control. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of City of Santa Cruz, California’s internal control.
A deficiency in internal control exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent, or detect and correct, misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the entity’s financial statements will not be prevented, or detected and corrected on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those charged with governance.
Our consideration of internal control was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph of this section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies in internal control that might be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies. Given these limitations, during our audit we did not identify any deficiencies in internal control that we consider to be material weaknesses. However, material weaknesses or significant deficiencies may exist that have not been identified.
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Report on Compliance and Other Matters
As part of obtaining reasonable assurance about whether City of Santa Cruz, California 's financial statements are free from material misstatement, we performed tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements, noncompliance with which could have a direct and material effect on the financial statements. However, providing an opinion on compliance with those provisions was not an objective of our audit, and accordingly, we do not express such an opinion. The results of our tests disclosed no instances of noncompliance or other matters that are required to be reported under Government Auditing Standards.
Purpose of this Report
The purpose of this report is solely to describe the scope of our testing of internal control and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control or on compliance. This report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards in considering the entity’s internal control and compliance. Accordingly, this communication is not suitable for any other purpose.
Menlo Park, California
March 1, 2023
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4040 Campbell Ave., Ste. 200 | Menlo Park, CA 94025-1053 | T 650.522.3400 | F 650.645.7393 | EOE 1 Independent Accountants’ Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures Related to the Article XIII-B Appropriations Limit Calculations
The Members of the City Council of the
City of Santa Cruz, California
We have performed the procedures enumerated below, on the Appropriations Limit Calculation of the City of Santa Cruz (City), prepared in accordance with Section 1.5 of Article XIII-B of the California Constitution for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. The City’s management is responsible for the Appropriations Limit Calculation for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
The City has agreed to and acknowledged that the procedures performed are appropriate to meet the intended purpose of assisting the City in evaluating its Appropriations Limit Calculation was performed as required by Article XIII-B of the California Constitution and we will report on findings based on the procedures performed.
This report may not be suitable for any other purpose. The procedures performed may not address all the items of interest to a user of this report and may not meet the needs of all users of this report and, as such, users are responsible for determining whether the procedures performed are appropriate for their purposes.
The procedures and the associated findings are as follows:
1. We obtained the completed worksheets setting forth the calculations necessary to establish the City’s appropriations limit and compared the 2021-22 limit and annual adjustment factors included in those worksheets to the limit and annual adjustment factors that were adopted by resolution of the City Council.
We also compared the population and inflation options included in the aforementioned worksheets to those that were selected by a recorded vote of the City Council.
Finding: No exceptions were found as a result of this procedure.
2. We added last year's limit to the annual adjustment amount and compared the resulting amount to the 2021-22 appropriations limit.
Finding: No exceptions were found as a result of this procedure.
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3. We compared the current year information to the worksheets described in No. 1 above and to information provided by the California State Department of Finance.
Finding: No exceptions were found as a result of this procedure.
4. We agreed the prior year appropriations limit to the prior year appropriations limit adopted by the City Council.
Finding: No exceptions were found as a result of this procedure.
We were engaged by the City to perform this agreed-upon procedures engagement and conducted our engagement in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. We were not engaged to and did not conduct an examination or review, the objective of which would be the expression of an opinion or conclusion, respectively, on the City’s Appropriations Limit calculation.
Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion or conclusion. Had we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that would have been reported to you.
We are required to be independent of the City and to meet our other ethical responsibilities, in accordance with the relevant ethical requirements related to our agreed-upon procedures engagement.
No procedures have been performed with respect to the determination of the appropriation limit for the base year, as defined by Article XIII-B of the California Constitution.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of the City Council and management of the City and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than those specified parties.
Menlo Park, California
March 1, 2023
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4040 Campbell Ave., Ste. 200 | Menlo Park, CA 94025-1053 | T 650.522.3400 | F 650.645.7393 | EOE 1 March 1, 2023
To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
of the City of Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
We have audited the financial statements of the City of Santa Cruz, California (City) as of and for the year ended June 30, 2022, and have issued our report thereon dated March 1, 2023. Professional standards require that we advise you of the following matters relating to our audit.
Our Responsibility in Relation to the Financial Statement Audit under Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and Government Auditing Standards
As communicated in our letter dated March 30, 2022, our responsibility, as described by professional standards, is to form and express an opinion(s) about whether the financial statements that have been prepared by management with your oversight are presented fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Our audit of the financial statements does not relieve you or management of your respective responsibilities.
Our responsibility, as prescribed by professional standards, is to plan and perform our audit to obtain reasonable, rather than absolute, assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit of financial statements includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, as part of our audit, we considered the internal control of the City’s solely for the purpose of determining our audit procedures and not to provide any assurance concerning such internal control.
We are also responsible for communicating significant matters related to the audit that are, in our professional judgment, relevant to your responsibilities in overseeing the financial reporting process.
However, we are not required to design procedures for the purpose of identifying other matters to communicate to you.
We have provided our comments regarding internal controls during our audit in our Independent Auditor’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards dated March 1, 2023.
Planned Scope and Timing of the Audit
We conducted our audit consistent with the planned scope and timing we previously communicated to you.
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Compliance with All Ethics Requirements Regarding Independence The engagement team, others in our firm, as appropriate, our firm, and other firms utilized in the engagement, if applicable, have complied with all relevant ethical requirements regarding independence.
Significant Risks Identified
As stated in our auditor’s report, professional standards require us to design our audit to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free of material misstatement whether caused by fraud or error. In designing our audit procedures, professional standards require us to evaluate the financial statements and assess the risk that a material misstatement could occur. Areas that are potentially more susceptible to misstatements, and thereby require special audit considerations, are designated as “significant risks”. We have identified the following as significant risks:
Improper Revenue Recognition – professional standards require auditors to presume that revenue recognition is a fraud risk. Therefore, improper revenue recognition was identified as a fraud risk due to possibility that revenue is not recorded in the proper period, in the incorrect amount, etc. either due to error or fraud.
Qualitative Aspects of the Entity’s Significant Accounting Practices Significant Accounting Policies
Management has the responsibility to select and use appropriate accounting policies. A summary of the significant accounting policies adopted by the City is included in Note 1 to the financial statements. There have been no initial selection of accounting policies and no changes in significant accounting policies or their application during the fiscal year, other than the implementation of GASB Statement No. 87, Leases. No matters have come to our attention that would require us, under professional standards, to inform you about (1) the methods used to account for significant unusual transactions and (2) the effect of significant accounting policies in controversial or emerging areas for which there is a lack of authoritative guidance or consensus.
Significant Accounting Estimates
Accounting estimates are an integral part of the financial statements prepared by management and are based on management’s current judgments. Those judgments are normally based on knowledge and experience about past and current events and assumptions about future events. Certain accounting estimates are particularly sensitive because of their significance to the financial statements and because of the possibility that future events affecting them may differ markedly from management’s current judgments.
The most sensitive accounting estimates affecting the financial statements are related to the valuation of pension and, other postemployment benefits, lease accounting discount rates, claims incurred but not reported, landfill closure and post closure costs, and allowances for doubtful accounts as follows:
• Management’s estimate of the pension and postemployment benefits is based on actuarial valuations prepared in accordance with the methods prescribed by governmental accounting standards.
• Management’s estimate of the lease accounting discount rates is based the Treasury SLGS rates over the period of lease agreements with adjustment for the City’s risk profile. • Management’s estimate of the claims incurred but not reported is based on actuarial valuations of the City’s risk management programs.
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• Management’s estimate of the landfill closure and post closure costs is based on information prepared by the City’s engineer about costs and capacity. • Management’s estimate of the allowance for doubtful accounts receivable is based on their knowledge of the nature of the balances outstanding.
Financial Statement Disclosures
Certain financial statement disclosures involve significant judgment and are particularly sensitive because of their significance to financial statement users. The most sensitive disclosures affecting the City’s financial statements relate to:
• Note 1 summarizes the City’s accounting policies and describes significant changes in accounting policies due to the implementation of new accounting standards about leases. The effect of the restatement is further described at Note 15.
• Note 9 describes the valuation of the City’s net pension liability and related deferred outflows and inflows of resources. Such amounts are sensitive to the underlying actuarial assumptions used including, but not limited to, the investment rate of return and discount rate. As disclosed, a one percent increase or decrease in the discount rate has a material effect on the City’s net pension liability. • Note 10 describes the City’s postemployment benefits liability and related deferred outflows and inflows of resources are sensitive to the underlying actuarial assumptions used including, but not limited to, the discount rate and healthcare cost trend rate. As disclosed, a one percent increase or decrease in the discount rate or the healthcare cost trend rate has a material effect on the City’s post-employment benefits liability.
• Note 11 describes significant changes to the City’s postemployment benefits liability occurring subsequent to the June 30, 2022 reporting date, and other subsequent events.
Significant Difficulties Encountered during the Audit
We encountered no significant difficulties in dealing with management relating to the performance of the audit.
Uncorrected and Corrected Misstatements
For purposes of this communication, professional standards require us to accumulate all known and likely misstatements identified during the audit, other than those that we believe are trivial, and communicate them to the appropriate level of management. Further, professional standards require us to also communicate the effect of uncorrected misstatements related to prior periods on the relevant classes of transactions, account balances or disclosures, and the financial statements as a whole.Uncorrected misstatements or matters underlying those uncorrected misstatements could potentially cause future-period financial statements to be materially misstated, even though the uncorrected misstatements are immaterial to the financial statements currently under audit. There were no uncorrected or corrected missstatements identified as a result of our audit procedures.
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Disagreements with Management
For purposes of this letter, professional standards define a disagreement with management as a matter, whether or not resolved to our satisfaction, concerning a financial accounting, reporting, or auditing matter, which could be significant to the City’s financial statements or the auditor’s report. No such disagreements arose during the course of the audit.
Circumstances that Affect the Form and Content of the Auditor’s Report For purposes of this letter, professional standards require that we communicate any circumstances that affect the form and content of our auditor’s report. Our report contains an emphasis of matter for the implementation of the GASB Statement 87, Leases.
Representations Requested from Management
We have requested certain written representations from management which are included in the management representation letter dated March 1, 2023.
Management’s Consultations with Other Accountants
In some cases, management may decide to consult with other accountants about auditing and accounting matters. Management informed us that, and to our knowledge, there were no consultations with other accountants regarding auditing and accounting matters.
Other Significant Matters, Findings, or Issues
In the normal course of our professional association with the City, we generally discuss a variety of matters, including the application of accounting principles and auditing standards, significant events or transactions that occurred during the year, operating and regulatory conditions affecting the entity, and operational plans and strategies that may affect the risks of material misstatement. None of the matters discussed resulted in a condition to our retention as City’s auditors.
Other Information Included in Annual Reports
Pursuant to professional standards, our responsibility as auditors for other information, whether financial or nonfinancial, included in City’s annual reports, does not extend beyond the financial information identified in the audit report, and we are not required to perform any procedures to corroborate such other information.
However, in accordance with such standards, we have read the information and considered whether such information, or the manner of its presentation, was materially inconsistent with its presentation in the financial statements.
Our responsibility also includes communicating to you any information which we believe is a material misstatement of fact. Nothing came to our attention that caused us to believe that such information, or its manner of presentation, is materially inconsistent with the information, or manner of its presentation, appearing in the financial statements.
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This report is intended solely for the information and use of the City Council, and management of the City of Santa Cruz, California and is not intended to be, and should not be, used by anyone other than these specified parties.
Menlo Park, California
19.12 City Council
AGENDA REPORT
DATE: 03/17/2023
AGENDA OF: 03/28/2023
DEPARTMENT: Planning and Community Development
SUBJECT: Annual Housing Element and General Plan Progress Reports (PL) RECOMMENDATION: Accept the 2022 General Plan and Housing Element Annual Progress Reports and direct staff to submit the reports to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
BACKGROUND: The State of California Government Code Section 65400 requires cities and counties to report annually to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) regarding their progress toward implementing their General Plans and, in a separate report, the Housing Element portion of the General Plan. Reporting on the Housing Element progress has expanded since 2018 to include reporting each stage of development applications, including both planning permit applications (entitlements) and building permit applications. The Annual Housing Element Report is submitted on an Excel form provided by HCD. There is no specific format required for the annual General Plan report, merely that it be a report on the status of the General Plan and an update on its implementation, with a few specific items of information noted below.
The purpose of this informational item is to present the attached 2022 Housing Element Annual Progress Report and 2022 General Plan Annual Progress Report to the City Council prior to submittal to OPR and HCD as required by State law.
DISCUSSION:
2022 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
Regional Housing Needs Allocation
The State of California and the regional Council of Governments, the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG), use the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) process to aid jurisdictions in making land use designation decisions that will accommodate estimates of future statewide growth and housing need.
The RHNA reporting cycles are eight years in length except that the current cycle was extended by one year to allow for its alignment with the Metropolitan Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS), as required by Senate Bill 375. The current nine-year cycle runs from 2015-2023. Per the RHNA, the City is required to ensure that enough land is zoned for
20.1 residential uses to allow for the potential development of a minimum of 747 units during the 2015- 2023 cycle. This minimum number of units is further broken down by four required affordability levels based on Area Median Income (AMI) calculations: Very Low Income (VLI), Low Income (LI), Moderate Income, and Above Moderate Income. In the City’s current Housing Element, the City successfully demonstrated that there is sufficient appropriately zoned land to accommodate these units in the allocated affordability categories and HCD certified the City’s Housing Element in 2016.
HCD Reporting
The 2022 Housing Element Report utilizes the format provided by the HCD. This format provides HCD with information on the following items:
Residential projects submitted for entitlement (Planning or, if no Planning entitlement is required, Building) approval during 2022 (Table A);
Residential projects with entitlements approved during 2022 (Table A2); Residential building permits issued during 2022 (Table A2); Residential building permits finaled during 2022 (Table A2); Number of and affordability level of units within all of the above categories (Tables A and A2);
Whether any projects or permits were approved utilizing SB 35 streamlining (Table A2); Annual progress on meeting the jurisdiction’s RHNA (Table B); The progress on rezoning of properties required to meet a jurisdiction’s RHNA or to accommodate housing potential lost by downzoning other properties (Table C, not needed by Santa Cruz in 2022);
Progress toward implementing Housing Element programs (Table D); Commercial density bonus projects where a commercial developer partners with an affordable housing developer to provide a mixed-use project (Table E, not needed by Santa Cruz in 2022);
Affordable projects that were substantially rehabilitated or received assistance in exchange for extending affordability requirements (Table F, this table is optional); Above Moderate Income units that were converted to Moderate Income units (Table F2, none in 2022);
Locally owned lands listed on the Housing Element Sites Inventory that have been sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of (Table G, no City-owned lands were listed on the Housing Element Sites Inventory);
Locally owned surplus sites (Table H);
Units constructed per SB 9 (Table I, new for 2022, the City has no SB 9 units constructed); Student housing projects with special student housing density bonus (Table J, new for 2022, the City had no applications for this type of density bonus in 2022); Summary of Tables A and A2 (Summary); and
Reporting on progress toward Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) grant projects (LEAP Reporting).
Some of these items, such as the progress on rezoning, commercial density bonus projects, and disposal of locally owned lands on the Housing Element Sites Inventory, are not applicable to the City’s reporting as there is nothing to report or these categories do not apply (there are no current commercial density bonus projects, the City did not need to rezone any properties to meet the
20.2 RHNA targets, and there were no City-owned properties listed on the Housing Element Sites Inventory).
Notably, the progress toward meeting the RHNA is based upon building permits issued for housing units rather than building permits finaled (i.e., construction completed). Because of this, the numbers found in this report may vary from those found in the Housing Element, those indicated in reports submitted to the State Department of Finance, and those generally used by the City to track housing development. Reviewing other reporting requirements, such as the number of residential units receiving Planning approvals and the number of residential units finaled during 2022, provides a more complete picture of the City’s progress towards meeting its housing goals.
However, any projects that did not submit or receive approval, issuance, or occupancy permits within the calendar year 2022 do not appear in the 2022 Annual Progress Report.
Jurisdictions that meet or exceed their RHNA totals in all income categories by the end of the RHNA cycle are not subject to SB 35 for the following four years. SB 35 allows for ministerial approvals of development projects with 1) no discretion on the part of the City to deny projects that meet objective standards and 2) no California Environmental Quality Act review. Four years into the next RHNA cycle, jurisdictions will be reevaluated to see whether they have met their proportional RHNA targets. For the mid-cycle review, the jurisdiction must meet half the RHNA target numbers for each income category to be exempt from SB 35. If a jurisdiction has met half of its Above Moderate allocation but has not met half the allocation for Low-Income (LI) and Very-Low-Income (VLI) units, projects with at least 50 percent affordable units may apply for SB 35 processing. If the jurisdiction has not met the Above-Moderate allocation, any project that includes 10 percent affordable units or the jurisdiction’s inclusionary requirement, whichever is higher, may apply for SB 35 processing.
Residential Building Permits Issued in 2022 & Affordability of Units For the 2022 calendar year, building permits were issued for a total of 264 housing units. This total is broken down by 76 VLI units, 146 LI units and 42 above moderate income units. Of the VLI units, 59 will be provided in the Pacific Station South project at 818 Pacific Avenue and 16 in the Cavalry Church project at 532 Center Street, with one unit as a replacement housing unit at 418 Pennsylvania Avenue. The LI units are divided into 60 deed restricted units and 86 non-deedrestricted units. The deed restricted units consist of 48 units at the Cavalry Church project, 10 units at the Pacific Station South project, and two units at other individual projects. The LI, non-deedrestricted units are supplied by ADU units as explained further a few paragraphs down. Unit totals for 2022 and previous years in the Housing Element cycle are shown in Table 1 below.
20.3 The City has achieved its RHNA targets for the LI, Moderate, and Above Moderate categories for the 2015-2023 reporting period. While VLI units are still needed to meet this cycle’s RHNA target, projects that include another 76 VLI units submitted applications for building permits but the permits have not yet been issued. In addition, the 119 Coral Street project, which includes 120 units which may be either VLI or LI, was entitled and applied for building permits in a previous year, but the building permits have not yet been issued and, therefore, do not show on the 2022 Annual Progress Report. Based on these projects in the pipeline, meeting the VLI target in 2023 by the end of the Housing Element period is anticipated.
Of the 264 units for which building permits were issued in 2022, 135 units were from larger projects (70-unit Pacific Station South and 65-unit Cavalry Church). Most of the remaining permits issued were for ADUs (96). Since 2020, ADU construction has been increasing steadily, and 2022 saw the most ADU permits issued by the City yet. This may, in part, be related to changes in State law that lifted the owner-occupancy requirement for ADUs until 2025 and other changes in State law to allow Junior ADUs in addition to ADUs and to allow ADUs in multi-family projects. It may also be related, at least partially, to the COVID-19 pandemic, during which many people were working from home and reconfigured their live/work spaces to better suit their new lifestyle needs.
Beginning in 2021, staff designed an ADU survey for the specific purpose of providing a more accurate reflection of their affordability (as they are non-deed restricted). Planning staff coordinated with Housing staff in the Economic Development & Housing Department (ED) to include the survey in their annual ADU monitoring notifications to achieve a greater number of TABLE 1
Permitted Units Issued by Affordability and RHNA Targets Income Level
RHNA
Allocation
by Income
Level
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Total
Units
to
Date
(all
years)
Total
Remaining
RHNA by
Income
Level
Deed
Restricted 5 1 6 45 76
Very Low
Non-Deed
Restricted
180 57 47
Deed
Restricted 7 15 13 47 17 2 60
Low
Non-Deed
Restricted
118
6 51 43 81 86
282
Deed
Restricted
Moderate
Non-Deed
Restricted
136
39 112 41 1 16 24
233
Above
Moderate 313 94 44 109 90 26 12 230 42 606
Total RHNA 747
Total Units 145 172 163 150 155 79 313 264 1,177 47
20.4 responses. ED staff does monitoring notifications by email and by mail for those without email contacts, so the affordability survey was posted to the ED monitoring website and also sent with the mailed notifications. While a total of 99 responses were received, 24 of those units were not occupied as permanent housing in 2022.
The ADU survey results showed that the number of ADUs used by family members (40) was greater than the number rented to separate households (36). Rent was charged for family members in ten responses, and those rents appeared to be lower than the rents charged to separate households, so the median rents were calculated with and without the ADUs rented to family members (see table below). While the median rents that include rents to family members are lower than the median for separate households, 89 percent of all ADU rents reported were below the rent level for LI households. Based on these findings, 89 percent of the 96 ADUs approved in 2022 can be counted towards LI units in the progress report to HCD. The following table shows HCD allowed rents for low income housing compared to the median rents calculated from the survey responses.
2022 ADU Survey Results
Number of
Bedrooms
HCD Low
Income Rent
Limits
Median Rents
from Survey
including
Family
Median Rents
from Survey,
Separate
Household only
Percent of Rents
Below Low Income
for All ADUs
Studio $2,178 $917 $1,779 15/17, 88%
1 Bedroom $2,333 $1,951 $2,107 44/50, 88%
2 Bedroom $2,800 $1,300 $2,075 6/6, 100%
Pipeline Projects and Future Housing Element Cycle
There continue to be many new applications for housing development in the pipeline. There were applications for entitlements or, if entitlements were not required, for building permits for 728 units in 2022, up from 354 in 2020 and slightly higher than the 709 units in 2021. This includes the 276-unit project at 530 Front Street, the 124-unit Library Mixed-Use project at 119 Lincoln Street, the 105-unit project at 915 Water Street, the 65-unit Cavalry Church project at 532 Center Street, and the 26-unit project at 2035 North Pacific Avenue, as well as 116 ADUs and several single-family homes. For more detailed information, please see the attached 2022 Housing Element Annual Progress Report.
The City’s RHNA for the 6th cycle has been released and the City’s RHNA numbers have increased approximately fivefold. The RHNA for the City is 3,736 units total, up from 747 units in the 5th cycle. The affordability level breakdown of those 3,736 draft units follows, along with the current 5 th Cycle breakdown:
Number of
VLI Units
Number of
LI Units
Number of
Moderate
Units
Number of Above
Moderate Units
Total
Units
6 th Cycle RHNA 857 562 709 1,606 3,736
5 th Cycle RHNA 180 118 136 313 747
20.5 The City’s 6th Cycle Housing Element is due to HCD by December 15, 2023. Staff is working with consultant Kimley-Horn and Associates on the 6th cycle Housing Element Update and the Public Review Draft will be out shortly.
2022 General Plan Annual Progress Report
As noted earlier, the State does not dictate the format for the General Plan Annual Progress Report but recommends that certain topics be covered including: General Plan updates, Zoning Ordinance amendments, a review of major development projects, what the jurisdiction has done to promote infill development, and intergovernmental coordination. These topics are covered in the beginning section of the attached 2022 General Plan Annual Progress Report.
The second portion of Annual Progress Report is an overview of key General Plan implementation efforts in 2022. Chapter 11 of General Plan 2030 identifies implementation tasks by City department. Each department is responsible for implementing certain tasks and tracking progress as implementation proceeds. Planning staff periodically meets with each City department to monitor and discuss implementation plans and progress. Updates on key projects and programs are included in the “Selected Key Projects and Programs” section starting on page five of the attached report.
Health in All Policies
The items before Council are consistent with the Health in All Policies pillars of equity, public health, and sustainabilty in that they track the City’s housing goals for all levels of affordability and help encourage the development of housing at all affordability levels. Providing housing at all levels of affordability promotes equity in that it provides more opportunities for people of various incomes and household sizes to reside in Santa Cruz’s expensive housing market. It promotes public health by striving to house more people regardless of their imcome. Finally, it promotes sustainability by encouraging housing at a variety of affordability levels in a city that is the job center of the region, so that more people can live closer to their place of work, supporting environmental and smart growth goals.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The items before Council are informational and do not constitute a project under CEQA.
FISCAL IMPACT: There are no direct fiscal impacts to the General Fund from the transmittal of the Calendar Year 2022 General Plan Annual Progress report or Housing Element Annual Progress Report to OPR and HCD. However, failure to submit these reports would disqualify the City from significant State grant funding opportunities.
Prepared By:
Katherine Donovan
Senior Planner
Matt VanHua
Principal Planner
Submitted By:
Lee Butler
Director of Planning & Community
Development
Approved By:
Matt Huffaker
City Manager
ATTACHMENTS:
1. 2022 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
2. 2022 General Plan Annual Progress Report
20.6 Jurisdiction Name
Reporting Calendar YearFirst NameLast NameTitle Click here to download APR InstructionsEmailPhoneStreet AddressCityZipcode 1_23_23
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Santa Cruz
95060
General Information
2022
Santa Cruz
Contact Information
Katherine
Donovan
Senior Planner
[email protected]
8314205134
Mailing Address
Annual Progress Report January 2020 20.7
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Optional: Save before running. This copies data on Table A2, and creates another workbook with the table split across 4 tabs, each of which can fit onto a single page for easier printing. Running this macro will remove the comments on the column headers, which contain the instructions. Do not save the APR file after running in order to preserve comments once it is reopened.Optional: This macro identifies dates entered that occurred outside of the reporting year. RHNA credit is only given for building permits issued during the reporting year.
Link to the online system: https://apr.hcd.ca.gov/APR/login.do Submittal Instructions
Please save your file as Jurisdictionname2022 (no spaces). Example: the city of San Luis Obispo would save their file as SanLuisObispo2022Housing Element Annual Progress Reports (APRs) forms and tables must be submitted to HCD and the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) on or before April 1 of each year for the prior calendar year; submit separate reports directly to both HCD and OPR pursuant to Government Code section 65400. There are two options for submitting APRs: 1. Online Annual Progress Reporting System - Please see the link to the online system to the left. This allows you to upload the completed APR form into directly into HCD’s database limiting the risk of errors. If you would like to use the online system, email [email protected] and HCD will send you the login information for your jurisdiction. Please note: Using the online system only provides the information to HCD. The APR must still be submitted to OPR. Their email address is [email protected]. Email - If you prefer to submit via email, you can complete the excel Annual Progress Report forms and submit to HCD at [email protected] and to OPR at [email protected]. Please send the Excel workbook, not a scanned or PDF copy of the tables.
20.8 Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT Note: "+" indicates an optional field Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element ImplementationPlanning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023 Date
Application
Submitted
Total
Approved
Units by
Project
Total
Disapproved
Units by
Project
Streamlining Application Status Notes
2 34 6 7 8 9 11 12
Prior APN+ Current APN Street Address Project Name+ Local Jurisdiction Tracking ID+ Unit Category (SFA,SFD,2 to 4,5+,ADU,MH) Tenure R=Renter O=Owner Date Application Submitted+ (see instructions) Very Low- Income Deed Restricted Very Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Low- Income Deed Restricted Low-Income Non Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Non Deed Restricted Above Moderate- Income Total PROPOSED Units by Project Total APPROVED Units by project Total DISAPPROVED Units by Project Was APPLICATION SUBMITTED Pursuant to GC 65913.4(b)? (SB 35 Streamlining) Ddi the housing
development
application seek
incentives or
concessions
pursuant to
Government
Code section
65915?
Were incentives
or concessions
reqested
pursuant to
Government
Code section
65915
approved?
Please indicate
the status of the
application.
Notes+
Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below 140 0 103 0 0 0 485 728 69 0 005-148-12 532 CENTER ST CP22-0010 5+ R 5/6/2022 16 48 1 65 65 No Yes Yes Approved 009-073-21 813 MORRISSEY BLVD CP22-0075 2 to 4 O 9/22/2022 2 2 2 No No N/A Approved011-032-16 115 HAGEMANN AVE CP22-0049 ADU R 9/9/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-361-24 2035 N PACIFIC AVE CP19-0122 5+ R 9/23/2022 5 21 26 No No N/A Pending005-151-46 530 FRONT ST CP20-0098 5+ R 10/10/2022 27 10 239 276 No Yes N/A Pending009-234-25 915 WATER ST CP22-0092 5+ R 11/14/2022 14 91 105 No Yes N/A Pending005-141-21 119 LINCOLN ST CP22-0128 5+ R 12/8/2022 78 45 1 124 No Yes N/A Pending009-065-14 710 PACHECO AVE B22-0012 ADU R 1/5/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved008-231-18 114 FRANKLIN ST B22-0015 ADU R 1/6/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved006-202-12 314 RIGG ST C and D B22-0019 ADU R 1/10/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-221-21 349 BERKELEY WAY B22-0032 ADU R 1/11/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-071-42 637 HIGH ST B22-0005 ADU R 1/12/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved011-041-66 121 FOREST AVE B22-0001 ADU R 1/18/2022 2 2No No N/A Approved010-021-54 128 MINNIE ST B21-0595 ADU R 1/28/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved003-203-17 324 GETCHELL ST B22-0069 ADU R 1/31/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-141-36 514 MARKET ST B22-0072 ADU R 2/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved004-232-11 607 LIGHTHOUSE AVE B21-0573 ADU R 2/9/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending011-091-15 907 WINDHAM ST B22-0071 ADU R 2/10/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved003-213-26 231 FAIR AVE B22-0090 ADU R 2/10/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved006-412-13 709 MISSION ST B22-0099 ADU R 2/10/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved006-192-06 1219 LAUREL ST B22-0104 ADU R 2/14/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved004-111-28 120 LENNOX ST B22-0109 ADU R 2/14/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-161-42 310 ALTA VISTA DR B22-0092 ADU R 2/16/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved004-168-08 124 CONTINENTAL ST B22-0117 ADU R 2/17/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending003-102-09 724 ALMAR AVE B21-0426 ADU R 2/24/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending010-262-30 216 4TH AVE B22-0120 ADU R 2/25/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-282-09 214 PELTON AVE B22-0089 ADU R 2/28/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved002-123-14 64 ALTA VISTA DR B22-0135 ADU R 3/3/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved010-072-42 424 PENNSYLVANIA AVE
B22-0103 ADU R 3/7/2022 1 1 No No N/A Approved
006-411-14 135 CHRYSTAL TER B22-0127 ADU R 3/7/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending010-021-24 111 RATHBURN WAY B22-0139 ADU R 3/7/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-261-29 420 COLUMBIA ST B21-0501 ADU R 3/28/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved002-252-03 114 ARROYO CT B22-0178 ADU R 3/30/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-191-47 105 ALTA AVE B22-0191 ADU R 4/6/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved002-012-44 1317 HIGH ST B22-0156 ADU R 4/7/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-163-09 114 JORDAN ST B22-0194 ADU R 4/7/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending011-141-55 202 FREDERICK ST B22-0186 ADU R 4/11/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-172-37 354 FAIRMOUNT AVE B22-0181 ADU R 4/12/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved003-143-39 1510 DELAWARE AVE B22-0218 ADU R 4/21/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-041-10 925 WESTERN DR B22-0219 ADU R 5/3/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-073-07 613 TREVETHAN AVE B22-0232 SFD O 5/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-073-07 613 TREVETHAN AVE B22-0233 ADU R 5/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved004-432-16 302 YOUNGLOVE AVE B22-0234 ADU R 5/5/2022 2 2No No N/A Pending003-271-23 150 SACRAMENTO AVE
B22-0215 ADU R 5/10/2022 1 1 No No N/A Approved
010-021-39 721 N BRANCIFORTE
AVE A
B22-0253 ADU R 5/13/2022 1 1 No No N/A Approved
009-351-04 245 TREVETHAN AVE B22-0251 ADU R 5/17/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved004-011-11 515 CALIFORNIA ST B22-0263 ADU R 5/23/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-202-18 109 CLARK AVE B22-0257 ADU R 5/26/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved006-502-09 317 CHESTNUT ST B22-0273 ADU R 5/26/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-274-52 123 PHELAN CT B22-0261 ADU R 6/13/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-341-16 210 PACHECO AVE B22-0297 ADU R 6/14/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved002-235-16 137 TOLEDO ST B22-0278 ADU R 6/16/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved008-271-20 420 MARKET ST A B22-0287 ADU R 6/16/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-363-33 136 SAN JUAN AVE B22-0296 ADU R 6/16/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved003-281-42 131 JOHN ST B22-0300 ADU R 6/17/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-092-29 110 CAMINO DEL SOL B22-0302 ADU R 6/21/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending003-233-28 350 OXFORD WAY B22-0288 ADU R 6/22/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-065-15 718 PACHECO AVE B22-0290 ADU R 6/22/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved003-134-04 207 HEATH ST B22-0306 ADU R 6/22/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved004-043-16 1222 BAY ST B22-0330 ADU R 7/5/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved Table A
Cells in grey contain auto-calculation formulas
1 5
Project Identifier Unit Types Proposed Units - Affordability by Household Incomes Density Bonus Law Applications 10 Housing Development Applications Submitted
20.9 001-151-21 248 ROSS ST B22-0336 ADU R 7/7/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending 004-144-31 436 BELLEVUE ST B22-0341 ADU R 7/8/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved008-202-10 143 GRANT ST B22-0343 ADU R 7/10/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-274-27 200 LAGUNA ST B22-0328 ADU R 7/11/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-042-46 912 WESTERN DR B22-0338 ADU R 7/11/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending003-142-23 123 SEASIDE ST B22-0276 ADU R 7/14/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved007-112-08 417 CLIFF ST B22-0352 ADU R 7/15/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-172-05 121 SYLVAR ST B22-0366 ADU R 7/22/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-172-05 121 SYLVAR ST B22-0367 ADU R 7/22/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-133-19 126 MILES ST B22-0326 ADU R 7/28/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved003-203-41 521 FAIR AVE B22-0374 ADU R 8/2/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved003-203-41 521 FAIR AVE B22-0375 ADU R 8/2/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved001-111-44 400 HIGHLAND AVE B21-0269 ADU R 8/17/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved006-261-17 1416 BAY ST B22-0146 ADU R 8/17/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved009-234-04 339 STANFORD AVE B22-0383 ADU R 8/17/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending010-131-28 250 OCEAN VIEW AVE B22-0401 ADU R 8/24/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-218-39 215 WEST AVE B22-0405 ADU R 8/24/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-202-42 902 WEST CLIFF DR B22-0404 ADU R 8/29/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved002-082-28 219 MOUNTAIN WAY B22-0429 ADU R 9/6/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-123-37 546 BELLEVUE ST B22-0441 ADU R 9/13/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-254-02 319 LIBERTY ST B22-0448 ADU R 9/15/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-343-03 213 PACHECO AVE B22-0450 ADU R 9/21/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-021-04 114 WALTI ST B22-0230 ADU R 9/23/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending008-373-12 250 VISTA BELLA DR B22-0458 ADU R 9/26/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-032-21 202 BLACKBURN ST B22-0459 SFA R 9/26/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-011-09 1113 LAUREL ST B21-0417 ADU R 9/30/2022 1 1No No N/A Approved004-124-21 520 DUFOUR ST B22-0470 ADU R 10/3/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-071-20 534 WESTERN DR B22-0472 ADU R 10/3/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-215-11 910 COLUMBIA ST B22-0475 ADU R 10/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending010-232-16 307 CYPRESS AVE B22-0480 SFD O 10/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-311-04 1323 LAUREL ST B22-0481 ADU R 10/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-222-25 1916 MISSION ST B22-0483 ADU R 10/5/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-162-06 208 KING ST B22-0484 ADU R 10/5/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending010-132-05 109 CALEDONIA ST B22-0485 ADU R 10/6/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending010-165-35 229 PEARL ST B22-0486 ADU R 10/6/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-241-24 102 BRADLEY DR B22-0497 ADU R 10/19/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-181-02 417 LAURENT ST B22-0504 ADU R 10/19/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-181-02 417 LAURENT ST B22-0505 ADU R 10/19/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-194-29 802 PELTON AVE B22-0511 ADU R 10/27/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending011-131-02 912 WINDHAM ST B22-0517 ADU R 11/2/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-271-05 655 HIGH ST B22-0525 ADU R 11/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-162-35 143 WALK CIR B22-0528 ADU R 11/4/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-431-11 301 YOUNGLOVE AVE B22-0541 ADU R 11/15/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-112-19 103 SERRA CT B22-0545 ADU R 11/16/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-172-10 358 FAIRMOUNT AVE B22-0550 ADU R 11/18/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-161-53 211 FAIRMOUNT AVE B22-0553 SFD O 11/18/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-161-53 211 FAIRMOUNT AVE B22-0554 SFD R 11/18/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending005-076-13 1319 PACIFIC AVE B22-0567 SFA R 11/22/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-502-18 320 MYRTLE ST B22-0571 ADU R 11/29/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending008-264-21 704 MAY AVE B22-0572 ADU R 11/29/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-071-03 627 SAN JUAN AVE B22-0573 ADU R 11/29/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-253-19 404 CENTENNIAL ST B22-0551 ADU R 12/1/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-601-05 414 CALIFORNIA ST B22-0579 ADU R 12/5/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-601-05 414 CALIFORNIA ST B22-0580 SFD O 12/5/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-471-10 411 BELLEVUE ST B22-0548 ADU R 12/6/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending010-171-22 101 S BRANCIFORTE AVE
B22-0587 ADU R 12/6/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending
003-094-20 116 JETER ST B22-0182 ADU R 12/12/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending009-234-53 1062 N BRANCIFORTE AVE
B22-0599 ADU R 12/12/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending
009-363-15 128 SAN JUAN AVE B22-0602 ADU R 12/12/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-042-44 918 WESTERN DR B22-0608 ADU R 12/13/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending003-243-07 214 OXFORD WAY B22-0609 ADU R 12/14/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-223-27 214 MIRAMAR DR B22-0613 ADU R 12/14/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending006-472-14 528 LINCOLN ST B22-0588 ADU R 12/15/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-174-13 513 WILKES CIR B22-0585 ADU R 12/19/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-241-17 319 GHARKEY ST B22-0406 ADU R 12/20/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending004-281-05 534 WEST CLIFF DR B22-0614 ADU R 12/21/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-631-06 1808 KING ST B22-0629 ADU R 12/21/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending002-172-18 97 ALTA VISTA DR B22-0631 2 to 4 R 12/21/2022 2 2No No N/A Pending009-011-08 1413 N BRANCIFORTE AVE
B22-0643 ADU R 12/23/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending
010-561-20 514 OCEAN VIEW AVE B22-0644 ADU R 12/23/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending003-275-04 135 SWIFT ST B22-0648 ADU R 12/23/2022 1 1No No N/A Pending005-148-05 501 CEDAR ST CP22-0122 2 to 4 R 11/21/2022 2 2 2 No No N/A Approved 0 20.10
Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element Implementation Cells in grey contain auto-calculation formulas Planning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023
Table A2
Streamlining Infill
Housing without Financial
Assistance or Deed
Restrictions
Term of Affordability
or Deed Restriction Notes
23 56 89 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Prior APN+ Current APN Street Address Project Name+ Local Jurisdiction Tracking ID+ Unit Category (SFA,SFD,2 to 4,5+,ADU,MH) Tenure R=Renter O=Owner Very Low- Income Deed Restricted Very Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Low- Income Deed Restricted Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Non Deed Restricted Above Moderate- Income Entitlement Date Approved # of Units issued Entitlements Very Low- Income Deed Restricted Very Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Low- Income Deed Restricted Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Non Deed Restricted Above Moderate- Income Building Permits Date Issued # of Units Issued Building Permits Very Low- Income Deed Restricted Very Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Low- Income Deed Restricted Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Non Deed Restricted Above Moderate- Income Certificates of Occupancy or other forms of readiness (see instructions) Date Issued # of Units issued Certificates of Occupancy or other forms of readiness How many of the units were Extremely Low Income?+ Was Project APPROVED using GC 65913.4(b)? (SB 35 Streamlining) Y/N Infill Units? Y/N+ Assistance Programs for Each Development (may select multiple - see instructions) Deed Restriction Type (may select multiple - see instructions) For units affordable without financial assistance or deed restrictions, explain how the locality determined the units were affordable (see instructions) Term of Affordability or Deed Restriction (years) (if affordable in perpetuity enter 1000)+ Number of Demolished/Dest royed Units Demolished or Destroyed Units Demolished/Des troyed Units Owner or Renter Total Density Bonus Applied to the Project (Percentage Increase in Total Allowable Units or Total Maximum Allowable Residential Gross Floor Area) Number of Other Incentives, Concessions, Waivers, or Other Modifications Given to the Project (Excluding Parking Waivers or Parking Reductions)
List the incentives,
concessions,
waivers, and
modifications
(Excluding Parking
Waivers or Parking
Modifications)
Did the project receive a
reduction or waiver of
parking standards? (Y/N)
Notes+
Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below 123 0 48 1 0 0 232 404 76 0 60 86 0 0 42 264 62 0 1 72 0 0 24 159 17 0 40 0 010-072-42
418
PENNSYLVANIA
AVE
B19-0679 2 to 4 R
0 1 2 1/24/2022 3 0 1 N Y Other 1000 1 Demolished R
Replacemnt unit affrodable to VLI tenant in perpetuiry
010-202-07 107 PARK AVE B21-0191 ADU R 0 1 4/26/2022 1 1 12/13/2022 1 0 N Y Annual ADU survey 011-013-01 727 HANOVER ST B21-0321 2 to 4 R 0 3 7/27/2022 3 0 0 N Y INC 1000 1 Demolished 008-322-32 127 BLAINE ST B21-0508 SFA R 0 1 7/27/2022 1 00 N Y 010-031-78
821 N
BRANCIFORTE
AVE
B21-0614 2 to 4 R
0 2 4/21/2022 2 00 N Y
006-261-17 1416 BAY ST B22-0146 ADU R 0 1 8/24/2022 1 00 N Y Annual ADU survey 002-221-03 207 BERKSHIRE AVE B19-0726 ADU R 0 0 1 10/4/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 006-122-38 1511 LAUREL ST B20-0512 ADU R 0 0 1 2/22/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey002-196-02 419 OLIVE ST B20-0467 ADU R 0 0 1 8/5/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey009-342-09 205 HAMMOND AVE B20-0428 ADU R 0 0 1 5/24/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 003-201-65 327 JOHN ST B20-0485 ADU R 0 0 1 8/8/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 011-121-06 619 SUMNER ST B19-0730 SFD R 0 0 1 6/6/2022 1 N Y 011-121-06 619 SUMNER ST B19-0731 2 to 4 R 0 0 1 1 6/7/2022 2 N Y INC 1000 009-123-07 161 FAIRLAND WAY B20-0496 ADU R 0 0 1 10/6/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 006-111-20 1053 ESCALONA DR B17-0685 ADU R 0 0 1 1/20/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 009-282-28 507 PARK WAY B20-0405 ADU R 0 0 1 3/11/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 006-211-10 316 OTIS ST B B20-0289 ADU R 0 0 1 3/15/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 003-254-02 227 CHICO AVE B21-0027 ADU R 0 0 1 7/28/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 004-182-13 125 PLATEAU AVE B21-0135 SFD O 0 0 1 10/11/2022 1 N Y 006-212-08 123 PEYTON ST B21-0066 ADU R 0 0 1 3/21/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 002-411-09 137 WESTMOOR CT B20-0457 ADU R 0 0 1 8/12/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 003-223-05 420 OXFORD WAY B20-0504 ADU R 0 0 1 9/1/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 008-215-27 403 GRANT ST B20-0100 ADU R 0 0 1 8/25/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 004-102-22 722 SEASIDE ST B21-0013 ADU R 0 0 1 9/12/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 004-601-12 324 CALIFORNIA ST BLD 1 B21-0076 ADU R 0 0 1 4/8/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey004-601-12 326 CALIFORNIA ST BLD 2 B21-0078 ADU R 0 0 1 4/12/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 004-601-12 328 CALIFORNIA ST BLD 3 B21-0079 ADU R 0 0 1 4/12/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 011-321-08 160 HARMONY CT B B21-0265 ADU R 0 0 1 6/1/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey008-322-36 124 COLOMA ST 7 B21-0221 SFA R 0 0 1 5/4/2022 1 N Y 008-322-36 124 COLOMA ST 8 B21-0220 SFA R 0 0 1 5/4/2022 1 N Y 006-332-10 429 VAN NESS AVE A B21-0158 ADU R 0 0 1 12/1/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 003-275-18 134 MERCED AVE B21-0292 ADU R 0 0 1 3/15/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 004-141-12 434 DUFOUR ST B21-0163 ADU R 0 0 1 8/22/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey002-161-27 130 SCENIC ST B20-0499 ADU R 0 0 1 5/11/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 008-202-42 217 BERRY ST 1 B21-0216 ADU R 0 0 1 6/2/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 008-202-42 217 BERRY ST 2 B21-0217 ADU R 0 0 1 6/2/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey008-202-42 217 BERRY ST 3 B21-0218 ADU R 0 0 1 6/2/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 008-202-42 217 BERRY ST 4 B21-0219 ADU R 0 0 1 6/2/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey009-141-35 510 MARKET ST A B21-0145 ADU R 0 0 1 5/26/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 009-271-07 415 PACHECO AVE A B21-0040 ADU R 0 0 1 5/3/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 004-241-16 516 LIBERTY ST B20-0311 ADU R 0 0 1 4/19/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 004-263-22 126 CENTENNIAL ST B21-0271 ADU R 0 0 1 1/7/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 006-102-16 1034 LAURENT ST A B21-0388 ADU R 0 0 1 9/26/2022 1 N Y Annual ADU survey 007-023-26 130 CENTER ST CP21-0011 5+ R 35 198 1/25/2022 233
0 0 N INC, DB 1000 50.0% 4
DevelopmentStandardsModification
No
003-011-06 415 NATURAL BRIDGES DR CP21-0059 5+ R 20 4/26/2022 20 0 0 N Other, INC 1000 010-551-13 314 JESSIE ST CP21-0100 5+ R 48 2 1/12/2022 50 0 0 N Other, INC 1000 14 Demolished R 003-351-24 200 PANETTA AVE CP21-0133 5+ R 2 1/25/2022 2 0 0N008-181-23 150 FELKER ST CP21-0137 5+ R 4 28 8/17/2022 32 0 0 N DB, INC 1000 40.0% 4
DevelopmentStandardsModification
No
005-148-12 532 CENTER ST CP22-0010, B22-0079 5+ R 16 48 1 5/12/2022 65 16 48 1 8/24/2022 65 0 16 N INC, Other 55
13 units @80% inperpetuity, 25%@30%
for 55 yrs, remainder
@80% for 55 yrs
009-073-21 813 MORRISSEY BLVD CP22-0075 2 to 4 O 1 1 11/2/2022 2 0 0N Annual ADU survey 010-072-46
438
PENNSYLVANIA
AVE
B20-0526 ADU R
0 1 1/3/2022 1 1 8/17/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey 1 Demolished R 008-341-38 400 ESMERALDA DR B21-0451 ADU R 0 1 1/6/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 004-032-10 121 MYRTLE ST B21-0150 ADU R 0 1 1/10/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey009-143-09 120 LINDEN ST B21-0438 ADU R 0 1 1/13/2022 1 1 6/22/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey006-204-14 1316 LAUREL ST B21-0434 ADU R 0 1 1/19/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey002-234-20 222 OLIVE ST B21-0276 ADU R 0 1 1/20/2022 1 1 11/23/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey004-391-11 555 BETHANY CURV B21-0371 ADU R 0 1 1/24/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey006-491-10 707 CALIFORNIA ST B21-0294 ADU R 0 1 2/1/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey008-322-21 124 COLOMA ST B21-0190 ADU R 0 1 2/2/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-172-36 1131 WALK CIR B21-0310 ADU R 0 1 2/3/2022 1 1 8/24/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey 002-214-08 233 MIRAMAR DR B21-0307 ADU R 0 1 2/3/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 004-471-07 423 BELLEVUE ST B21-0418 ADU R 0 1 2/15/2022 1 1 9/27/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey 004-284-17 106 MANOR AVE B21-0372 ADU R 0 1 2/16/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-194-05 810 PELTON AVE B21-0466 ADU R 0 1 2/16/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-011-09 1113 LAUREL ST B21-0417 ADU R 0 1 2/23/2022 1 1 11/16/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey 009-271-14 440 MORRISSEY BLVD B21-0503 ADU R 0 1 2/25/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 008-253-06 509 MAY AVE B21-0500 ADU R 0 1 2/28/2022 1 1 7/6/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey004-231-01 321 BAY ST B21-0171 ADU R 0 1 2/28/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 006-431-13 124 TOWNE TER A B21-0399 ADU R 0 1 3/7/2022 1 1 8/9/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey004-123-23 534 BELLEVUE ST B21-0565 ADU R 0 1 3/7/2022 1 1 12/5/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey004-231-01 321 BAY ST B21-0170 SFD O 0 1 3/7/2022 1 00 N 009-251-03 223 MORRISSEY BLVD B21-0056 ADU R 0 1 3/8/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 009-243-19 126 MAGNOLIA ST B21-0317 ADU R 0 1 3/14/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 003-131-36 119 JETER ST B21-0567 ADU R 0 1 3/15/2022 1 1 5/16/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey008-342-19 238 CARBONERA DR B18-0615 ADU R 0 1 3/16/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 008-342-19 238 CARBONERA DR B18-0614 SFD O 0 1 3/16/2022 1 00 N003-202-46 346 JOHN ST B21-0581 ADU R 0 1 3/17/2022 1 1 12/20/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey 004-193-09 918 PELTON AVE B20-0425 ADU R 0 1 3/17/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 009-122-10 154 FAIRLAND WAY B21-0555 ADU R 0 1 3/21/2022 1 1 11/17/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey002-201-13 1523 ESCALONA DR B21-0531 ADU R 0 1 3/21/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 009-065-14 710 PACHECO AVE B22-0012 ADU R 0 1 3/21/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 010-192-04 107 PINE ST B21-0180 ADU R 0 1 4/6/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-144-52 343 DUFOUR ST B21-0605 ADU R 0 1 4/11/2022 1 1 10/11/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey004-012-04 145 VAN NESS AVE B21-0553 ADU R 0 1 4/11/2022 1 1 11/15/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey 010-273-06 1129 EAST CLIFF DR B21-0608 ADU R 0 1 5/2/2022 1 1 7/25/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey 006-502-08 323 CHESTNUT ST B21-0300 ADU R 0 1 5/3/2022 1 1 10/24/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey008-373-14 601 BRANCIFORTE DR B19-0733 SFD O 0 1 5/5/2022 1 00 N 011-123-34 714 WINDHAM ST B21-0301 ADU R 0 1 5/9/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 008-231-18 114 FRANKLIN ST B22-0015 ADU R 0 1 5/16/2022 1 1 9/9/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey010-166-37 122 OCEAN ST B21-0096 ADU R 0 1 5/17/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-123-26 542 BELLEVUE ST B21-0473 ADU R 0 1 5/17/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 006-202-12 314 RIGG ST C and D B22-0019 ADU R 0 2 5/18/2022 2 00 N Annual ADU survey 011-162-06 224 WOODS ST B21-0452 SFD O 0 1 1 5/19/2022 2 00 N Annual ADU survey004-273-05 219 OREGON ST B21-0594 ADU R 0 1 5/24/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey010-021-54 128 MINNIE ST B21-0595 ADU R 0 1 5/24/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 009-064-10 215 ALLERTON ST B21-0464 ADU R 0 1 5/25/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey010-072-42 424
PENNSYLVANIA
AVE
B22-0103 ADU R
0 1 5/25/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey
004-191-53 122 OXFORD WAY B21-0198 ADU R 0 1 6/7/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey011-132-28 108 DARWIN ST B21-0600 ADU R 0 1 6/7/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 009-271-20 420 MORRISSEY BLVD B21-0591 ADU R 0 1 6/8/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 004-181-10 941 DELAWARE AVE B21-0100 ADU R 0 1 6/9/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 004-282-09 214 PELTON AVE B22-0089 ADU R 0 1 6/9/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-271-06 302 OREGON ST B21-0539 ADU R 0 1 6/13/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey008-254-02 208 WASHBURN AVE B19-0717 ADU R 0 1 6/16/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 011-091-15 907 WINDHAM ST B22-0071 ADU R 0 1 6/22/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey003-213-26 231 FAIR AVE B22-0090 ADU R 0 1 6/27/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey005-152-17 818 PACIFIC AVE B21-0431 5+ R 0 59 10 1 6/28/2022 70 0 0 N INC, Other 1000002-161-42 310 ALTA VISTA DR B22-0092 ADU R 0 1 6/30/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 006-412-13 709 MISSION ST B22-0099 ADU R 0 1 6/30/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey011-024-13 333 GAULT ST B21-0054 ADU R 0 1 7/5/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey007-151-10 81 FRONT ST B21-0522 SFA R 0 1 1 7/6/2022 2 1 12/21/2022 1 0 N Annual ADU survey011-041-66 121 FOREST AVE B22-0001 ADU R 0 1 7/7/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey006-071-42 637 HIGH ST B22-0005 ADU R 0 1 7/11/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey005-135-07 340 CHESTNUT ST B20-0338 ADU R 0 1 7/13/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 008-254-09 203 HUBBARD ST B19-0413 ADU R 0 1 7/13/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 011-141-55 202 FREDERICK ST B22-0186 ADU R 0 1 2 4 7/21/2022 7 0 0 N INC Annual ADU survey 1000 011-013-01 727 HANOVER ST B21-0319 5+ R 0 1 1 2 7/27/2022 4 0 0 N INC Annual ADU survey 1000 1 Demolished R 011-013-01 727 HANOVER ST B21-0320 2 to 4 R 0 3 7/27/2022 3 00 N009-141-36 514 MARKET ST B22-0072 ADU R 0 1 8/2/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey002-123-14 64 ALTA VISTA DR B22-0135 ADU R 0 1 8/3/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey010-118-14 414 WINDSOR ST B21-0318 ADU R 0 1 8/8/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 010-254-14 215 4TH AVE B22-0161 SFD O 0 1 8/16/2022 1 00 N010-192-63 320 MOUNTAIN VIEW AVE B18-0307 ADU R 0 1 8/16/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 004-191-47 105 ALTA AVE B22-0191 ADU R 0 1 8/23/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-214-06 316 CONTINENTAL ST B21-0516 ADU R 0 1 9/7/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey Note: "+" indicates an optional field
Housing with Financial Assistance
and/or Deed Restrictions Project Identifier Demolished/Destroyed Units Annual Building Activity Report Summary - New Construction, Entitled, Permits and Completed Units Density Bonus
1 Unit Types Affordability by Household Incomes - Completed Entitlement Affordability by Household Incomes - Building Permits Affordability by Household Incomes - Certificates of Occupancy 4 7 10
20.11 Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element Implementation Cells in grey contain auto-calculation formulas Planning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023
Note: "+" indicates an optional field
003-203-17 324 GETCHELL ST B22-0069 ADU R 0 1 9/14/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey009-172-37 354 FAIRMOUNT AVE B22-0181 ADU R 0 1 9/21/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 004-043-16 1222 BAY ST B22-0330 ADU R 0 1 10/4/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey009-351-04 245 TREVETHAN AVE B22-0251 ADU R 0 1 10/5/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey003-271-23 150
SACRAMENTO
AVE
B22-0215 ADU R
0 1 10/10/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey
003-142-23 123 SEASIDE ST B22-0276 ADU R 0 1 10/11/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey003-351-24 200 PANETTA AVE B22-0177 2 to 4 R 0 2 10/12/2022 2 00 N 004-202-18 109 CLARK AVE B22-0257 ADU R 0 1 10/12/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey004-144-31 436 BELLEVUE ST B22-0341 ADU R 0 1 10/20/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 002-041-10 925 WESTERN DR B22-0219 ADU R 0 1 10/26/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey009-341-16 210 PACHECO AVE B22-0297 ADU R 0 1 10/26/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey 004-274-52 123 PHELAN CT B22-0261 ADU R 0 1 10/31/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey002-235-16 137 TOLEDO ST B22-0278 ADU R 0 1 11/1/2022 1 00 N Annual ADU survey006-192-06 1219 LAUREL ST B22-0104 ADU R 0 1 1 11/7/2022 2 00 N Annual ADU survey009-042-28 123 ROONEY ST B21-0389 ADU R 0 1 11/16/2022 1 00 N 009-363-33 136 SAN JUAN AVE B22-0296 ADU R 0 1 11/16/2022 1 00 N 003-203-41 521 FAIR AVE B22-0375 ADU R 0 1 11/21/2022 1 00 N 003-203-41 521 FAIR AVE B22-0374 SFD O 0 1 11/21/2022 1 00 N 006-133-19 126 MILES ST B22-0326 ADU R 0 1 11/22/2022 1 00 N 003-201-57 338 SWIFT ST B22-0362 SFD O 0 1 11/28/2022 1 00 N 003-102-40 255 SEASIDE ST B20-0221 ADU R 0 1 12/1/2022 1 00 N 010-021-39
721 N
BRANCIFORTE
AVE A
B22-0253 ADU R
0 1 12/8/2022 1 00 N
008-271-20 420 MARKET ST A B22-0287 ADU R 0 1 12/15/2022 1 00 N002-012-44 1317 HIGH ST B22-0156 ADU R 0 1 12/19/2022 1 00 N 009-065-15 718 PACHECO AVE B22-0290 ADU R 0 1 12/20/2022 1 00 N 009-073-07 613 TREVETHAN AVE B22-0233 ADU R 0 1 12/22/2022 1 00 N009-073-07 613 TREVETHAN AVE B22-0232 SFD O 0 1 12/22/2022 1 00 N006-261-17 1416 BAY ST B22-0249 SFA R 0 1 12/22/2022 1 00 N 008-262-41 324 GRANT ST B19-0424 SFD O 0 0 1 1/4/2022 1 N 011-032-54 902 HANOVER ST A B20-0150 ADU R 0 0 1 1/6/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 009-111-49 435 LA FONDA AVE A B20-0165 ADU R 0 0 1 1/10/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 007-401-26 732 RIVERSIDE AVE B19-0709 ADU R 0 0 1 1/13/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 003-351-23 202 PANETTA AVE B20-0166 2 to 4 R 0 0 2 1/25/2022 2 N 004-102-05 147 MASON ST B20-0222 ADU R 0 0 1 2/4/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 004-232-07 703 LIGHTHOUSE AVE B15-0347 ADU R 0 0 1 2/7/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 009-234-34
934 N
BRANCIFORTE
AVE
B19-0269 ADU R
0 0 1 2/8/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey
009-152-37
1209 N
BRANCIFORTE
AVE
B20-0516 ADU R
0 0 1 2/10/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey
011-092-10 358 FREDERICK ST B19-0697 ADU R 0 0 1 2/11/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 010-551-08 350 OCEAN ST B19-0040 5+ R 0 0 62 1 2/16/2022 63 N INC, Other 22 Demolished R 009-181-12
1106 N
BRANCIFORTE
AVE
B18-0012 ADU R
0 0 1 3/2/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey
003-262-29 2124 WEST CLIFF DR B20-0460 ADU R 0 0 1 3/23/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 004-217-15 715 GHARKEY ST B18-0214 ADU R 0 0 1 3/24/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 009-162-06 140 FAIRMOUNT AVE B18-0215 ADU R 0 0 1 4/6/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 004-012-07 129 VAN NESS AVE B19-0477 ADU R 0 0 1 4/20/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 009-125-18 410 LA FONDA AVE B21-0080 ADU R 0 0 1 5/10/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 002-082-05 229 ALAMO AVE B20-0211 ADU R 0 0 1 5/18/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey004-432-23 332 YOUNGLOVE AVE B20-0263 ADU R 0 0 1 5/20/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 009-342-07 319 PACHECO AVE B18-0648 ADU R 0 0 1 5/25/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 009-141-35 510 MARKET ST A B21-0145 ADU R 0 0 1 5/26/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey003-233-25 340 OXFORD WAY B19-0682 SFD O 0 0 1 5/31/2022 1 N 008-202-42 217 BERRY ST 3 B21-0218 ADU R 0 0 1 6/2/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey008-202-42 217 BERRY ST 4 B21-0219 ADU R 0 0 1 6/2/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 011-121-06 619 SUMNER ST B19-0729 SFD O 0 0 1 6/6/2022 1 N 008-242-11 129 GLENWOOD AVE A B16-0046 ADU R 0 0 1 6/21/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 003-233-11 321 ALTA AVE B17-0296 SFD O 0 0 1 7/7/2022 1 N 004-141-12 434 DUFOUR ST B21-0163 ADU R 0 0 1 1 8/22/2022 2 N Annual ADU survey009-152-04 1225 N
BRANCIFORTE
AVE
B18-0595 ADU R
0 0 1 8/29/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey
004-144-15 311 DUFOUR ST B20-0107 ADU R 0 0 1 9/7/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey002-651-03 126 PENGUIN CT B17-0285 SFD O 0 0 1 9/8/2022 1 N 002-213-03 121 LADERA DR B20-0359 ADU R 0 0 1 10/27/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 011-032-09 145 HAGEMANN AVE B19-0250 ADU R 0 0 1 11/14/2022 1 N Annual ADU survey 008-155-23 518 EMELINE AVE B20-0220 ADU R 0 0 1 11/15/2022 1 N 001-141-35 530 HIGH ST B15-0249 SFD O 0 0 1 11/15/2022 1 N 001-172-04 335 GOLF CLUB DR B19-0086 ADU R 0 0 1 12/13/2022 1 N 007-151-10 81 FRONT ST B21-0522 SFA R 0 0 1 12/21/2022 1 N 009-152-16 318 LINDEN ST B17-0457 ADU R 0 0 1 12/21/2022 1 N 0 0 0
20.12 Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element ImplementationPlanning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023 1 Projection Period 34
RHNA Allocation by
Income Level 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Units to Date (all years) Total Remaining RHNA by Income Level Deed Restricted - 5 1 - 6 45 - - 76 -
Non-Deed Restricted - - - - - - - - - -
Deed Restricted - 7 15 13 47 17 - 2 60 -
Non-Deed Restricted - - - - 6 51 43 81 86 -
Deed Restricted - - - - - - - - - -
Non-Deed Restricted - 39 112 41 1 16 24 - - -
Above Moderate 313 - 94 44 109 90 26 12 228 42 - 645 -
747
- 145 172 163 150 155 79 311 264 - 1,439 47
5 67
Extremely low-Income
Need 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Units to Date Total Units Remaining 90 - - - - - - 17 - 17 73
-
Please note: For the last year of the 5th cycle, Table B will only include units that were permitted during the portion of the year that was in the 5th cycle. For the first year of the 6th cycle, Table B will only include units that were permitted since the start of the planning period. Projection Period units are in a separate column.
Total RHNA
Total Units
Income Level
Very LowLowExtremely Low-Income Units*
Note: units serving extremely low-income households are included in the very low-income RHNA progress and must be reported as very low-income units in section 7 of Table A2. They must also be reported in the extremely low-income category (section 13) in Table A2 to be counted as progress toward meeting the extremely low-income housing need determined pursuant to Government Code 65583(a)(1). *Extremely low-income houisng need determined pursuant to Government Code 65583(a)(1). Value in Section 5 is default value, assumed to be half of the very low-income RHNA. May be overwritten.
Progress toward extremely low-income housing need, as determined pursuant to Government Code 65583(a)(1).
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Regional Housing Needs Allocation Progress
Permitted Units Issued by Affordability
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Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element ImplementationPlanning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023 Date of Rezone Rezone Type
2 4 5 6 7 9 10 11
APN Street Address Project Name+
Local
Jurisdiction
Tracking ID+
Date of Rezone Very Low-Income Low-Income Moderate-Income Above Moderate- Income Rezone Type Parcel Size (Acres) General Plan Designation Zoning Minimum Density Allowed Maximum Density Allowed Realistic Capacity Vacant/Nonvacant Description of Existing Uses Note: "+" indicates an optional fieldCells in grey contain auto-calculation formulas Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below
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Project Identifier RHNA Shortfall by Household Income Category Sites Description 1 Sites Identified or Rezoned to Accommodate Shortfall Housing Need and No Net-Loss Law Table C
20.14 Jurisdiction Santa Cruz
Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31)
123 4
Name of Program Objective Timeframe in H.E Status of Program Implementation
1.1 Provision of Adequate
Sites
Maintain an inventory of available vacant and underutilized sites that can accommodate new housing.
Update annually Annual update scheduled for August 2023.
1.1 Provision of Adequate
Sites
Require the preparation of SpecificPlans or Area Plans for larger developable residential areas identified in the Land Use Element.
Prior to development
approval
An ADU was added to a planned development project on Golf Club Drive providing affordable supportive housing for developmentally disabled individuals. Discussion continued related to a potential project on the Swenson parcel by Antonelli Pond.
1.1 Provision of Adequate Sites
Continue to require housing production goals for the larger housing opportunitysites described in the Land Use Element.
Ongoing Ongoing, continuing to review applications to promote housing production.
1.2 Mixed Use Developments
Establish mixed-use development standards to encourage housing along transit corridors, including density levels, parking and open space requirements, and other development standards. 2015-2017
The City's Objective Standards, including standards for mixed use projects, were adopted in 2022. This project also included rezoning parcels that had been designated as mixed use in the 2030 General Plan.
1.2 Mixed Use Developments
Examine the possibility of utilizing graduated density for mixed-usedevelopment. 2015-2017
Due to changes in State law, graduating density via zoning is not possible. Other methods such as setbacks from adjacent lower density districts have beenimplemented through the Objective Standards.
1.2 Mixed Use Developments
Encourage the redevelopment of
existing single-story commercial buildings to include upper story residential units, where feasible.
Ongoing
Ongoing, several recent projects included in Table A2 either add units above an existing single-story building or replace a single-story building with a taller, mixeduse building.
1.2 Mixed Use Developments
Encourage the redevelopment of
existing projects with large parking lotsto add housing units above existing development, taking advantage of shared parking potentials.
Ongoing
There are currently several projects in the pipeline that would redevelop parking lots to add mixed use projects with significant amounts of affordable housing: thePacific Station North (902 Pacific Ave.) and Paciic Station South (818 Pacific Ave.) projects, the Cedar Street Family Apts. (532 Center St.) and the Library Mixed Use Project (119 Lincoln St.). In k2022, a building permit was issued for 818 Pacific Ave; entitlements were approved and a building permit issued for 532 Center St; and a pre-application was approved and formal application submitted for 119 Lincoln St. Entitlements were approved for 902 Pacific in 2021 and funding is being sought as building permits are developed.
Housing Programs Progress Report
Describe progress of all programs including local efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing as identified in the housing element.
Table D
Program Implementation Status pursuant to GC Section 65583
ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Housing Element Implementation
20.15 1.3 Alternative Housing
Types
Create and/or revise development
standards for co-housing, live/work, and other alternative and appropriate housing types that respond to Santa
Cruz’s diverse population and housing
needs.
2018-2020
This continues to be a goal; however, several live/work project s are underway
using the current standards. ADU standards were updated in 2022 with the Objective Standards update to comply with changes in State law. The City revised the Zoning Ordinance for small units (see below), and create some requirementsfor Live-Work units through the Objective Standards process described above.
1.3 Alternative Housing
Types
Continue to implement the ADU programand monitor the effect of ordinancerevisions on neighborhood vitality.
Annually
ADUs continue to be one of the City's most prolific development types. The City continues to implement and update the ADU ordinance, both to comply with State law changes and to encourage additional ADU development.
1.3 Alternative Housing
Types
Examine development regulations to identify potential barriers to the development of alternative types of housing and, if such barriers are found, develop actions to remove or modify them as feasible.
2016-2018
In 2022, the City updated regulations for Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) and other small residential units, removing Small Ownership Units (SOU) and replacing themwith Flexible Density Units (FDU) in a single ordinance for small units. The Downtown Plan and 2030 General Plan were also revised for consistency.
1.3 Alternative Housing
Types
Encourage the State to recognize
appropriate non-traditional housing types as housin
g types.
Ongoing While the City's lobbyist includes this in their scope of work, the State has been looking into ways to encourage housing, both traditional and non-traditional.
1.4 Planned Development
Permit
Examine the minimum lot sizerequirement for Planned Development Permits and consider amending theZoning Ordinance to allow PD Permitson smaller infill lots if appropriate. 2015-2018
This continues to be a goal, however, the intense workload and low staff levels for the department have moved this as a priority. It will likely occur in the 2024-2026 timeframe.
1.4 Planned Development
Permit
Examine parking requirements and otherregulatory constraints that may deter thedevelopment of Planned Developments. Initiate study within 1 year of adoption of the Housing Element.
2016-2018
The City revised its parking standards for all development in 2020 to lower parking requirements, with revisions within the Coastal Zone certified by the CaliforniaCoastal Commission in 2021. Additional revisions to comply with new State laws related to parking requirements for residential uses are currently underway.
1.5 Development ReviewProcess
Work with the development communityto continue to streamline the project and design review processes to provide a greater level of certainty in the outcome of housing proposals.
2016-2019
The City adopted a new Public Outreach policy in 2018 that requires larger projects to meet with the community early in the development process to ensure community input, providing more certainty to developers who respond to community comments. In addition, with the rapid changes in State law, many larger projects are taking advantage of the pre-application process to lock incurrent standards.
1.5 Development ReviewProcess
Periodically audit the effectiveness ofthe development review process topromote efficiency and predictability.
Biannually
New audit under consideration. Process mapping for project entitlements and building permits occurred in 2021, along with consultation on process flows with software providers in anticipation of permit trackig system upgrades, anticipated to be
gin in 2023-2024.
1.5 Development Review Process
Review the existing development fee structure, including water and sewer connection fees, to determine if thecurrent structure is appropriate and e quitable.
2017-2018 Some fees, particularly for ADUs, have already been adjusted while a city-wide fee study is being considered.
1.5 Development Review
Process
Review and adjust the fee structure for Single Occupancy Units and propose changes for City Council consideration as necessary.
2017-2018
This adjustment was made; however, since that time, the City has updated the Zoning Ordinance to replace SOUs with Flexible Density Units to provide more choices in housing types for developers and the public.
1.5 Development ReviewProcess
Review the development standards in
the Zoning Ordinance and considerimpediments to housing development. 2015-2018 Development standards have been clarified with the Objective Standards adopted in 2022, providing more certainty for developers.
20.16 1.5 Development Review
Process
Consider revising the Zoning Ordinance
to reflect policies of the General Plan 2030 that would remove or lessen constraints on housing development.
2015-2017 The Slope Regulations have been revised as directed in the General Plan, as well as objective development standards.
1.6 Public Education and
Participation
Continue to provide accurate and clear
information to the public and the development community about Citypolicies and the development review process and make such information
available at the public counter.
Ongoing
The City adopted a new Public Outreach policy in 2018 that clarifies what projects require public outreach and the various forms it should take. Meetings are scheduled multiple times per year with the development community to understand how communications can be improved. Website updates are continuous and ongoing, with a new process to post information about projects currently under review, providing additional information to the public. This has proven to be a very popular update.
1.6 Public Education and
Participation
Continue to develop educational materials such as brochures and videosthat provide information on thedevelopment process, planning, andhousing issues as programs change.
Ongoing Ongoing, particularly as ordinances are revised and updated.
1.6 Public Education and
Participation
Continue to ensure that information is
accessible and available to all members
of the community on the City’s webpage and at the public counter.
Ongoing
Ongoing, with updates particularly related to ordinance revisions occuring throughout the process. The Planning Department has developed a new process to provide information about current projects on the website. In addition, people can sign up to be notified when projects related to specific topics are being reviewed or going to public hearings.
1.7 Mixed Income Projects
Develop zoning tools to provide incentives to the development of mixed income projects.
2015-2017
Included in Inclusionary Ordinance, can be required through developmentagreements. The City's Inclusionary and Density Bonus Ordinances are updated regularly, including both in 2019 and 2020.
2.1 Affordable HousingOrdinance
Revise the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance to reflect recent legal decisions. 2017-2018 Completed 2018, updated in 2020.
2.1 Affordable Housing
Ordinance
Review the Small Ownership Unit and
Single Room Occupancy Ordinances to
consider ways to make them more effective in today's market. 2017-2018
In 2022, the City updated the Single-Room Occupancy and Small Ownership Units ordinances, combining these ordinances to a single ordinance for small units and replacing Small Ownership Units with Flexible Density Units to provide moreflexibility in housing types for developers and residents.
2.1 Affordable HousingOrdinance
Prioritize a portion of public housing
funds for the extremely low incomehousehold housing category.
Annually Ongoing. Recent projects include the Library Mixed Use project, 818 Pacific Ave, and 902 Pacific.
2.2 Regulatory and Financial Incentives
Identify residential projects for Cityfinancial or regulatory incentives subject to City Council approval.
Annually
Ongoing. Generally, it takes several years to accumulate sufficient funds to provide incentives. Recent incentives were granted to the 902 Pacific Avenue and 818 Pacific Avenue affordable housing projects.
2.2 Regulatory and Financial Incentives
Explore the possibility of establishing a Real Estate Transfer Tax to help fund affordable housing. 2016-2019
The City considered taking an initiative for a Real Estate Transfer Tax to the voters in 2018 but determined not to at that time as there were several other City and County tax measures on the ballot. In 2022, City Council decided to pursue a sales tax increase, which failed in a special election, and a Transit Occupancy Tax,which won by more than 80% of the vote. City Council is not interested inpursuing a Real Estate Transfer tax at this time.
2.2 Regulatory and Financial Incentives
Explore the potential of dedicating aportion of TOT, either existing or newpercentage, for affordable housing. 2016-2019
The City took a 2% TOT tax increase to the voters in 2022, which won overwhelmingly; however, it did not include a set aside for affordable housing asCity Council prefered to have more flexibility in how that funding was spent.
2.2 Regulatory and
Financial Incentives
Direct City lobbyists to concentrate on legislation that would help fund affordable housing.
Annually That is currently part of the direction given to the City's lobbyist.
20.17 2.2 Regulatory and
Financial Incentives
Encourage "citizen lobbyists" on issues
related to housing, particularly
affordable housing.
Annually
Ongoing, part of the work included by the Housing Blueprint Subcommittee of the City Council. New Council Community Outreach Policy encourages broader citizen participation.
2.3 Density Bonus
Program
Amend the density bonus ordinance to
reflect findings from recent court cases. 2015-2016 Completed 2018, revised in 2020.
2.3 Density BonusProgram
Continue implementation of the density
bonus ordinance 2015-2023
The City continues to implement and update the Density Bonus Ordnance to comply with changes in State Density Bonus law, including Ord. 2017-20 in 2017, Ord. 2018-10 in 2018, and Ord. 2020-23 in 2020.
2.3 Density Bonus
Program
Evaluate and revise the City residential development standards to ensurehousing projects can be built at the maximum density allowed under theunderlying district.
2017-2018
Original update completed 2017. With new State requirements, new updates will be completed in 2022. In 2021, the City approved increased in the number of affordable supportive units allowed by right under AB2162 to 100 units for oneproject and 120 units for another. More work to be done regarding development agreements anticipated in the 2021-2023 time period.
2.3 Density Bonus
Program
Continue to encourage public-private
housing partnerships as a means to incentivize the production of affordablehousing and build local capacity to manage such projects.
Annually Ongoing.
2.3 Density BonusProgram
Explore creative approaches to
developing and financing affordablehousing in partnership with privatedevelopers. 2016-2019 Occurs on a case-by-case basis with development of affordable housing projects.
2.5 Preservation of Housing Opportunities
Continue implementation of theCondominium Conversion Ordinance. Ongoing Ongoing, basic task of Planning Department for condominimum conversion projects.
2.5 Preservation ofHousing Opportunities
Maintain current mobile home rent
stabilization and conversion regulations to preserve 360 mobile homes in parks in the community. 2015-2023 Ongoing.
2.6 Preservation of At-Risk Affordable Housing
Work with interested agencies and community organizations to preserve atrisk units by monitoring their status, providing technical and/or financial assistance in return for extended affordability controls, and ensuring proper tenant notification prior to project conversion.
Annually
The City works with the Housing Authority to help preserve at-risk units. Many units that appear to be at risk are part of a Section 8 program, which renews every five years. The City works with individual property owners to provide incentives to maintain affordability.
2.6 Preservation of At-Risk
Affordable Housing
Assist projects approved by CityCouncil in return for extensions of their affordability controls for as long as
feasible.
2015-2023
The Economic Development Department works with property owners to extend affordability agreements whenever possible. In 2022, the affordability for the Sycamore La Playa project with Mercy Housing was extended as well as the Darwin Street project.
20.18 3.1 Housing for Families
with Children
Work with nonprofit organizations to identify proposed housing projectssuitable to families with children and consider providing financial assistance,
subject to availability and City Council approval, to facilitate and encourage their development. 2015-2023
The City's population of families with children is shrinking, so the need for that housing type can generally be met by the current development market. That said,City-sponsored affordable housing projects include some 2+ bedroom units that can accommodate families. Staff will continue to evaluate if additional familyhousing is needed that is not being met by the development market, and the Citywill look into working with affordable housing developers to provide this housing type. The City's Security Deposit Program, funded with ~$200,000 reallocation of relocation expense funding from the State HCD, sponsored by the City of SantaCruz and administered by the County Housing Authority, frequently provides security deposits for low income families with children. This funding must be used before July 1, 2023 to accommodate State HCD-requested timeframe. Recent policy considerations related to Flexible Density Units can facilitate production of small, two-bedroom units that can accommodate small families.
3.1 Housing for Families
with Children
Encourage the development of child
care opportunities in conjunction with
residential development.
2015-2023
For projects that include family-style housing, the City encourages the provision of childcare facilities onsite. A child care impact fee was added to the City's fee schedule in 2021 that will be used to perform a facilities analysis and to directly invest in child care facilities. The 119 Lincoln St. project that includes a new public library, parking garage, and 100 to 125 units of affordable housing will also include a child care facility onsite. The City also amended the Zoning Ordinance in 2022 to clarity that both small and large family daycare facilities are allowed by right in all zoning districts that allow residential uses.
3.2 Children and Youth Development
Continue to assist nonprofit and forprofit organizations that provide services to children, youth, and families with children. 2015-2023 The City funds a number of social service organizations through its annual budget.
3.2 Children and Youth Development
Encourage the establishment of child
care centers in appropriate locations. 2015-2023 Ongoing. See also row 53 above
3.3 Continuum of Care
Continue to implement current
programs aimed at the reduction and theprevention of homelessness. 2015-2023
The City is actively working with other local jurisdictions to address homelessness and prevention. In addition, the City has created a new homeless services response team to address homelessness within the City.
3.3 Continuum of Care
Participate with other Santa Cruz County
communities and organizations in
implementing "All In - Toward a Home for Every County Resident, the Santa Cruz County Community’s Strategic
Plan to Prevent, Reduce, and Eventually
End Homelessness."
2015-2023
The City is actively working with other local jurisdictions to address homelessness and prevention. In addition, the City created a new position to address homelessness within the City.
3.4 Supportive Living Housing Services
Continue supporting organizations in
maintaining permanent supportivehousing and providing assistance to special needs groups.
Annually The City funds a number of social service organizations through its annual budget.
20.19 3.4 Supportive Living
Housing Services
Encourage the location of permanent supportive housing for the able-bodiedin residential settings or other locationsreadily accessible to public amenities, public transit, shopping, and supportiveservices. 2015-2023
This is an ongoing process. Several projects are currently in the pipeline, including 119 Coral St., which will provide 120 units of supportive housing, and the City-sponsored project at 818 Pacific Ave. (Pacific Station South), which will reserve 24 units for homeless households or those in danger of becoming homeless. Another City-sponsored project at 902 Pacific Ave. (Pacific StationNorth, 95 units) will contain a minimum of 25% of the project as supportive housing units. The 100% affordable housing project at 532 Center St. (Cedar StApartments) will also be providing 25% of the 65 unit project for supportivehousing. Another 100% affordable housing project at 314 Jessie St. (Jessie St Apartments) will have 25% of the 50 unit project for supportive housing.
3.4 Supportive Living Housing Services
Amend the Zoning Ordinance to permit transitional and supportive housing as a residential use subject only to those restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in thesame zone.
2016-2017 Completed 2016.
3.5 Student Housing
Continue to collaborate with UCSC on
ways to increase the supply of student, faculty, and staff housing serving the University campus.
2015-2023 Ongoing.
3.5 Student Housing
Promote housing strategies that reflectstudent housing needs including affordability and the siting of high density apartments and townhouses
along transit corridors.
2015-2023
Ongoing. In addition, the City is strongly encouraging the University to provide additional student housing on campus. The University is recently updated its Long Range Development Plan for the next 20 years and will be providing housing for 100% of new student growth during the plan period.
3.5 Student Housing
Support State and federal legislation that would advance the housing goals of the community such as increasing the funding for housing at University of California campuses.
2015-2023
The City's lobbyist, citizen lobbyists, and local politicians including City Council support increasing funding for student housing at the State level at an ongoing level.
3.5 Student Housing
Explore innovative methodologies for
development funding models and delivery methods for new housing. 2016-2020 Ongoing.
3.5 Student Housing
Continue to administer the City's Rental
Inspection Program to ensure
maintenance of a healthy and safe rental housing stock.
Annually
This is an ongoing program and one of the Code Enforcement Division's signature programs. Through this program, many units continue to be upgraded to meetbasic life/safety standards.
3.6 Housing for Personswith Disabilities
Work with other Santa Cruz Countyjurisdictions and the County Housing Authority to support the compilation and publicizing of housing accessible to persons with disabilities. 2015-2023 Ongoing, including through work on the homelessness issues.
3.6 Housing for Personswith Disabilities
Work with non-profit organizations to
develop housing for persons with disabilities.
Ongoing Ongoing, with both the Pacific Station South project and the Library Mixed-Use project providing housing for people with disabilities.
3.6 Housing for Personswith Disabilities
Develop procedures to provide
reasonable accommodations forpersons with disabilities in land use and zoning. 2016-2017
This is included in the Zoning Ordinance, with specific accommodations determined on a case-by-case basis dependent on the physical conditions of the property.
20.20 3.7 Housing and
Community Development
Program
Continue funding nonprofit human
service and housing development
organizations through the City’sHousing and Community Development Program subject to funding availability and City Council approval.
2015-2023 The City funds a number of social service organizations through its annual budget.
4.1 Housing Choice
Vouchers
Work with Santa Cruz Countyjurisdictions and interested community organizations to continue to advocatefor a payment standard that keeps pace with changes in market rents.
Ongoing HUD updated the payment standard in 2018.
4.1 Housing Choice
Vouchers
Encourage property owners to acceptSection 8 tenants. Ongoing Ongoing. The Planning and Economic Development Departments have a program to help ADU and other property owners to use the Section 8 program. The City cosponsors a landlord incentive program to cover any property damage from low income tenants beyond what is covered by the deposit.
4.2 Rental Assistance
Continue program implementation and assist households with security deposit and last month’s rent and/or emergencyrent assistance.
Annually
The City works with the Housing Authority to provide tenant-based rental and security deposit assistance. The City also provides Red Cross funds to the Community Action Board for emergency rent assistance for extremely low income tenants.
4.3 Mortgage Credit
Certificate
Continue to support the program and encourage the assistance of up to three households each year.
Annually This program was previously funded through Redevelopment funding. With the dissolution of Redevelopment, the City has not been able to fund the program.
4.4 Grant Application
Program
Investigate and apply for funds availablethrough State housing programs thathelp meet the housing needs of SantaCruz residents.
Annually The City regularly reviews available State grant funding opportunities and applies for those for which the City is eligible.
4.4 Grant Application
Program
Continue to investigate and apply foradditional sources of funding for newhousing and supportive services.
Annually The City regularly reviews available State and federal grant funding opportunities and applies for those for which the City is eligible.
4.4 Grant Application
Program
Annually review and apply for
appropriate funding resources for newhousing and supportive services.
Annually The City regularly reviews available State and federal grant funding opportunities and applies for those for which the City is eligible.
4.5 Fair Housing Services Complete Fair Housing Plan and implement strategies. Annually The Fair Housing Plan is updated every five years. The City is working to update the plan to line up with the next Housing Element cycle and/or the next Consolidated Plan.
4.5 Fair Housing Services
Continue to provide free legal assistance to low income residents through California Rural LegalAssistance and to provide contactinformation for other free and low-cost legal services.
Annually Ongoing.
5.1 Code Enforcement Continue to implement code
enforcement program. Ongoing This is a basic function of the Code Enforcement Division.
5.1 Code Enforcement
Conduct targeted code enforcement efforts in concert with the Beach/Southof Laurel Comprehensive Area Plan andthe HUD target areas.
Ongoing Ongoing.
5.1 Code Enforcement Consider expanding the Target Areas for proactive code enforcement efforts. 2015-2023 With the current housing crisis, in general, areas that used to be less well-kept are now upgrading. The Code Enforcement Division continues to monitor.
20.21 5.2 Rental Housing
Inspection Program
Continue to administer the City's rental
inspection program to ensure
maintenance of a healthy and safe rental
housing stock throughout the City.
Annually
This is an ongoing program and one of the Code Enforcement Division's signature programs. Through this program, many units have been and continue to be upgraded to meet basic life/safety standards.
5.3 Housing Rehabilitation
Concentrate limited rehabilitation program funding where it will provide the most benefit.
Annually This is always the City's goal.
5.3 Housing Rehabilitation
Projects using rehabilitation program
funding shall explore ways to improve energy efficiency within the project. 2015-2018 Once life/safety issues have been addressed, energy efficiency is the next most important factor in rehabilitation projects.
5.3 Housing Rehabilitation Explore programs that would assist low income seniors to age in place. 2015-2018 The City partnered successfully with Habitat for Humanity to pilot the My House My Home program, which is now expanding to other communities. With limited funding availability for housing, the City has chosen to use those funds for larger projects that can help more people but continues to look into funding opportunities that would assist low income seniors to age in place.
5.4 Beach/South of Laurel Comprehensive Area Plan
Continue to provide pro-active code
enforcement and other communitydevelopment activities for the Beach/South of Laurel and Lower OceanNeighborhood Revitalization Strategy Areas.
Ongoing
Ongoing. The City is committed to continuing to provide pro-active code enforcement as well as other community development activities for these communities. This includes an annual cleanup day, where Code Enforcement provides dumpsters for residents to drop off unwanted items. Usable items are donated to Santa Cruz Grey Bears.
6.1 Water Provision and
Conservation
Continue to require all residential, commercial and industrial buildings to be retrofitted completely with lowconsumption plumbing fixtures at the time of sale of the property.
Ongoing
This project has been discontinued as the saturation of water efficient indoor plumbing fixtures, along with the passage of a State bill, SB 407, in 2009 has made this program costly and largely redundent. In addition, the City has one of the lowest per capita water use rates in the State.
6.1 Water Provision and
Conservation
Continue to implement waterconservation measures and publicize efforts at the City Hall and on the City’s Water Conservation Office website atwww.cityofsantacruz.com/departments/water/conservation Ongoing Ongoing
6.1 Water Provision and
Conservation
Maintain and implement short- and longterm contingency plans to ensure an adequate water supply for residents and
business.
Ongoing
Ongoing. The City is pursuing a Water Supply Augmentation Strategy, with a portfolio including demand management (conservation), transfers and exchanges, aquifer storage and recovery, and recycled water or desalination in order to ensure a safe, adequate, reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable water supply. To support the augmentation strategy, the City has reachedagreements with the State and federal regulators toprovide instream flows needed for threatened and endangered fish species and these flow commitments have been integrated into the City's water suppply augmentation planning efforts designed to improve the reliability of the City's water suppy in the face of longer and more frequent droughts. Additionally, the City is pursuing a capital investmentprogram, the Santa Cruz Water Program, to secure its future water supply portfolio, to improve reliability and resiliency in the face of climate change, and to address aged infrastructure. Finally, the City's newly adopted Securing Our Water Future policy establishes a supply reliability goal of both planning for climatechange conditions and meeting customer water demand.
20.22 6.2 Green Building
Program
Continue the Green Building Programfor design and construction of new housing.
Ongoing This is one the the Building Division's basic functions.
6.3 Transit OrientedDevelopment
Continue to facilitate the development of
transit-oriented housing projectsthrough regulatory concessions, financial assistance, and zoning.
Ongoing Ongoing. The majority of housing development in the City is within walking distance of a major transit stop.
6.3 Transit Oriented
Development
Link land uses and transportation
systems and promote bicycle- and
pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods.
Ongoing Ongoing.
7.1 Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Reduction
Encourage the construction of housing
along major transportation corridorsand where alternative transportation is viable.
Ongoing
This is a basic tenate of the 2030 General Plan and the Zoning Ordinance. Most larger development projects in the past few years have been along major corridorsor in the downtown area.
7.1 Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Reduction
Adopt and implement key programsrelated to housing developed by theRegional Compact that meet city GHG reduction goals. 2016-2019 The City has included such reductions through the Green Building reguirements.
7.1 Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Reduction
Encourage property owners to consider
construction techniques and methods to reduce and respond to global warming.
Ongoing
The City's Green Building Standards ensure that individual projects include such techniques and methods. The City adopted an electrification ordinance in 2020 that requires new buildings to be 100% electric. The City's electricity is provided by Cental Coast Community Energy (formerly Monterey Bay Community Power),which provides carbon free electricity from renewable and hydropower sources.
7.1 Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Reduction
Implement tracking and reporting
procedures that meet AB32 requirements and the public interest. 2016-2019 Completed.
7.1 Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Reduction
Continue to implement the Climate Adaption Plan. Ongoing The City updated and adopted the update of the Climate Adaptation Plan in 2018.
The update includes an assessment of social vulnerability to climate change andsea level rise. The next update will begin in 2024.
7.2 Energy Conservation
Promote efficiency upgrades and renewable energy projects over the use of carbon offsets to meet climate reduction goals.
Ongoing
The City discourages the use of carbon offsets for projects and seeks to achieveall green building standards without use of "carbon credits." Carbon offsets are rarely used, only in limited circumstances when other options are exhausted.
7.2 Energy Conservation Promote solar energy systems on housing projects. Ongoing The City developed a pilot program and awarded one CBDG grant for a Grid Alternative Low-Income Solar Project for 6 low income households. Three properties/households have had solar installations. ED extended the grant to also allow non-profit installations. MHCAN, a local non-profit providing mental health services, has been identified as a potential recipient. The City has partnered with several Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing providers to provide a variety of options for financing of solar installations on existing properties. An Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities (AHSC) grant was awarded to the Ctiy to build a solar arrray for the downtown bus station, adjacent to the Pacific Station North and Pacific Station South projects. The City intends to apply again for the Library Mixed-Use project.
General Comments:
20.23 20.24
Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Reporting Period 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element ImplementationPlanning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023 Description of Commercial
Development Bonus
Commercial Development Bonus
Date Approved
34 APN Street Address Project Name+ Local Jurisdiction Tracking ID+ Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Description of Commercial Development Bonus Commercial Development Bonus Date Approved Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below
Units Constructed as Part of Agreement
Commercial Development Bonus Approved pursuant to GC Section 65915.7 Table E
Note: "+" indicates an optional field
Project Identifier
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(CCR Title 25 §6202)
Annual Progress Report January 2020 20.25
Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT Note: "+" indicates an optional field Reporting Period 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element Implementation Cells in grey contain auto-calculation formulas Planning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023
The description should adequately document howeach unit complies with subsection (c) of GovernmentCode Section 65583.1+.
For detailed reporting requirements, see the chcklist here:
Extremely LowIncome+ Very Low-Income+ Low-Income+ TOTAL UNITS+ Extremely Low- Income+ Very Low- Income+ Low-Income+ TOTAL UNITS+ https://www.hcd.ca.gov/community‐ development/docs/adequate‐sites‐checklist.pdf Rehabilitation ActivityPreservation of Units At-RiskAcquisition of Residential UnitsMobilehome Park PreservationTotal Units by Income Table F
Please note this table is optional: The jurisdiction can use this table to report units that have been substantially rehabilitated, converted from non-affordable to affordable by acquisition, and preserved, including mobilehome park preservation, consistent with the standards set forth in Government Code section 65583.1, subdivision (c). Please note, motel, hotel, hostel rooms or other structures that are converted from non-residential to residential units pursuant to Government Code section 65583.1(c)(1)(D) are considered net-new housing units and must be reported in Table A2 and not reported in Table F.
Activity Type
Units that Do Not Count Towards RHNA+
Listed for Informational Purposes Only
Units that Count Towards RHNA +
Note - Because the statutory requirements severely limit what can be counted, please contact HCD to receive the password that will enable you to populate these fields.
Units Rehabilitated, Preserved and Acquired for Alternative Adequate Sites pursuant to Government Code section 65583.1(c) Annual Progress Report January 2020 20.26
Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Note: "+" indicates an optional field
Reporting Period 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element Implementation Cells in grey contain auto-calculation formulasPlanning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023 Notes
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Prior APN+ Current APN Street Address Project Name+
Local
Jurisdiction
Tracking ID+
Unit Category
(2 to 4,5+)
Tenure
R=Renter
Very LowIncome Deed
Restricted
Very LowIncome Non
Deed
Restricted
Low- Income Deed
Restricted
Low- Income
Non Deed
Restricted
Moderate- Income
Deed Restricted
ModerateIncome Non Deed
Restricted
Above
ModerateIncome
Total Moderate Income Units
Converted from Above
Moderate
Date Converted Notes
Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below
Table F2
Above Moderate Income Units Converted to Moderate Income Pursuant to Government Code section 65400.2 For up to 25 percent of a jurisdiction’s moderate-income regional housing need allocation, the planning agency may include the number of units in an existing multifamily building that were converted to deed-restricted rental housing for moderate-income households by the imposition of affordability covenants and restrictions for the unit. Before adding information to this table, please ensure housing developments meet the requirements described in Government Code 65400.2(b). 5 Project Identifier Unit Types
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Affordability by Household Incomes After Conversion Units credited toward Above Moderate RHNA
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Reporting Period 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31)Planning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023 ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT Housing Element Implementation
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APN Street Address Project Name+ Local Jurisdiction Tracking ID+ Realistic Capacity Identified in the Housing Element Entity to whom the site transferred Intended Use for Site 1 Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below
Note: "+" indicates an optional fieldCells in grey contain auto-calculation formulas Table G
Locally Owned Lands Included in the Housing Element Sites Inventory that have been sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of Project Identifier
NOTE: This table must only be filled out if the housing element sites inventory contains a site which is or was owned by the reporting jurisdiction, and has been sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of during the reporting year.
20.28 Jurisdiction Santa Cruz Note: "+" indicates an optional field Reporting Period 2022
(Jan. 1 - Dec.
31)
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formulas
Designation Size Notes
1 2 34 5 6 7
APN Street Address/Intersection Existing Use Number of Units Surplus Designation Parcel Size (in acres) Notes 005-151-35 326 Front Street Public Facilities Exempt Surplus Land 0.101005-151-48 310 Front Street Public Facilities Exempt Surplus Land 0.11 NOTE: This table is meant to contain an invenory of
ALL surplus/excess lands the reporting jurisdiction
owns
Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below
Parcel Identifier
ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Housing Element Implementation
Table H
Locally Owned Surplus Sites
For Santa Cruz County jurisdictions, please format the APN's as follows:999-999-99-9999
20.29 Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT Note: + indicates anoptional field
Reporting Period 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element Implementation Cells in grey contain auto-calculation formulas
Planning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023
Project Type Date Notes
23 APN Street Address Project Name+ Local Jurisdiction Tracking ID+ Activity Date Very Low Income Low Income Moderate Income Above Moderate Income Notes Table I
Units Constructed Pursuant to Government Code 65852.21 and Applications for Lot Splits Pursuant to Government Code 66411.7 (SB9) NOTE: SB 9 PROJECTS ONLY. This table onlyneeds to be completed if there were lot splits applied for pursuant to Government Code 66411.7 OR units constructed pursuant to 65852.21. Units entitled/permitted/constructed must also be reported in Table A2. Applications for these units must be reported in Table A.
Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below
Project Identifier Unit Constructed
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Jurisdiction Santa Cruz ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Reporting Period 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31) Housing Element ImplementationPlanning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023 Project Type Date
Units (Beds/Student
Capacity) Granted
Density Bonus
Notes
23 5 6
APN Street Address Project Name+ Local Jurisdiction Tracking ID+ Unit Category (SH - Student Housing) Date Very Low- Income Deed Restricted Very Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Low- Income Deed Restricted Low- Income Non Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Deed Restricted Moderate- Income Non Deed Restricted Above Moderate- Income Total Additional Beds Created Due to Density Bonus Notes Summary Row: Start Data Entry Below
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Table J
Student housing development for lower income students for which was granted a density bonus pursuant to subparagraph (F) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 65915 Project Identifier Units (Beds/Student Capacity) Approved 1 4
NOTE: STUDENT HOUSING WITH DENSITY BONUS ONLY. This
table only needs to be completed if there were student housing projects WITH a density bonus approved pursuant to
Government Code65915(b)(1)(F)
Annual Progress Report January 2020 20.31
Jurisdiction Santa Cruz
Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31)
Planning Period 5th Cycle 12/31/2015 - 12/31/2023
Current Year
Deed Restricted 76
Non-Deed Restricted 0
Deed Restricted 60
Non-Deed Restricted 86
Deed Restricted 0
Non-Deed Restricted 0
42 264
Units by Structure Type Entitled Permitted Completed
SFA 0 4 4
SFD 0 9 8
2 to 4 2 13 4
5+ 402 139 63
ADU 0 99 80
MH 0 0 0
Total 404 264 159
132
728
69 0
0 0
0 0
Income Rental Ownership Total
Very Low 0 00
Low 0 00
Moderate 0 00
Above Moderate 0 00
Total 0 00
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Income Level
Very Low
Low
Moderate
Above Moderate
Units Constructed - SB 35 Streamlining Permits
Number of Streamlining Applications Approved
Total Developments Approved with Streamlining
Total Units Constructed with Streamlining
Total Housing Applications Submitted:
Number of Proposed Units in All Applications Received:
Total Housing Units Approved:
Total Housing Units Disapproved:
Total Units
Housing Applications Summary
Use of SB 35 Streamlining Provisions
Note: Units serving extremely low-income households are included in the very low-income permitted units totals Number of Applications for Streamlining
Building Permits Issued by Affordability Summary
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Reporting Year 2022 (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31)
Total Award Amount Total award amount is auto‐populated based on amounts entered in rows 15‐26.
Task $ Amount Awarded $ Cumulative Reimbursement Requested Other Funding Notes Housing Element
Existing Conditions $20,000.00 $0.00 None
In progress but have not submitted reimbursement request yet.
Public Outreach $25,000.00 $0.00 None
In progress but have not submitted reimbursement request yet.
Policies and Objectives $40,000.00 $0.00 None
In progress but have not submitted reimbursement request yet.
CEQA $30,000.00 $0.00 None Not started
Draft Plan and Final Document $30,000.00 $0.00 None
In progress but have not submitted reimbursement request yet.
Adoption $15,000.00 $0.00 None Not started
Downtown Expansion
Existing Conditions $20,000.00 $0.00 REAP Not started
Public Outreach $25,000.00 $0.00 REAP Not started
Draft and Final Expansion Plan $50,000.00 $0.00 REAP Not started CEQA $30,000.00 $0.00 REAP Not started
Summary of entitlements, building permits, and certificates of occupancy (auto‐populated from Table A2) Current Year
Deed Restricted 123Non-Deed Restricted 0Deed Restricted 48Non-Deed Restricted 1Deed Restricted 0Non-Deed Restricted 0 Completed Entitlement Issued by Affordability Summary
Income Level
Very Low
Low
Moderate
Other (Please Specify in Notes)Other (Please Specify in Notes)Other (Please Specify in Notes) In Progress
Other (Please Specify in Notes)
In Progress
Other (Please Specify in Notes)
ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT
Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) Reporting
(CCR Title 25 §6202)
In Progress
Other (Please Specify in Notes)
Please update the status of the proposed uses listed in the entity’s application for funding and the corresponding impact on housing within the region or jurisdiction, as applicable, categorized based on the eligible uses specified in Section 50515.02 or 50515.03, as applicable.
$ 285,000.00 Task Status
In Progress
20.33 232
404
Current Year
Deed Restricted 76Non-Deed Restricted 0Deed Restricted 60Non-Deed Restricted 86Deed Restricted 0Non-Deed Restricted 0 42 264
Current Year
Deed Restricted 62Non-Deed Restricted 0Deed Restricted 1Non-Deed Restricted 72Deed Restricted 0Non-Deed Restricted 0 24 159
Moderate
Above Moderate
Total Units
Above Moderate
Total Units
Building Permits Issued by Affordability Summary
Income Level
Very Low
Low
Total Units
Certificate of Occupancy Issued by Affordability Summary Income Level
Very Low
Low
Moderate
Above Moderate
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Planning and Community Development
INTRODUCTION
This report summarizes the key Citywide actions in the calendar year 2022 that relate to the City of Santa Cruz 2030 General Plan (GP), including specific tasks undertaken by City departments, the Planning Commission, and City Council. This report is not intended to be a comprehensive audit of all the City’s General Plan implementation programs but includes the priorities and opportunities important to the community.
The General Plan Annual Progress Report meets the State requirements for reporting the City’s progress toward meeting General Plan goals and objectives. Topics recommended by the California Office of Planning and Research (OPR) are briefly discussed below. In addition, staff has highlighted Council Initiatives as well as several key City projects and programs undertaken in 2022 that support the goals and objectives identified in the 2030 General Plan.
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OPR RECOMMENDED TOPICS
2022 General Plan Updates
A General Plan Amendment was approved on March 8, 2022, in association with an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to replace Small Ownership Units (SOUs) with Flexible Density Units (FDUs). This amendment maintains the positive aspects of developing small units while removing specific size and ownership requirements and allowing these small units to be combined with other housing types. 2022 Ordinance Amendments and Policy Updates
Several Zoning Ordinance Amendments and other ordinance and policy updates related to development and General Plan implementation were approved or took effect in 2022, as follows:
Objective Standards and Mixed-Use Zoning: Various State housing bills limit City review of housing projects to “objective standards” contained in the city’s Zoning Ordinance and General Plan. The 2030 General Plan established Mixed-Use districts along the City’s main transportation corridors and these parcels had not yet been rezoned to reflect the General Plan direction. City Council approved the amendments to the Zoning Ordinance establishing objective development standards for the various zoning districts in December 2022. In addition, new descriptions for mixed-use zoning districts were added and the Zoning Map updated to reflect the Mixed-Use General Plan Districts. These revisions and amendments provide greater clarity for developers and the public and assist the City by providing objective standards for building and site design, making it easier to comply with State housing development laws. Accessory Dwelling Units: The City Council approved an urgency ordinance amending the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) regulations in December 2022 to ensure that the City’s ADU ordinance was in compliance with changes in State ADU law that went into effect on January
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1, 2023. Given that the State regulations were adopted in September and would cause any ordinance that did not comply to become obsolete and require the jurisdiction to rely strictly on State law, an urgency ordinance was required to retain the City’s ADU ordinance. As the City has been forward-thinking with its ADU ordinance and the ordinance resolves issues that are not addressed in and provides more flexibility than State law, this was an important action to maintain the City’s standards for ADUs. A permanent ordinance will be presented to City Council in 2023.
Slope Ordinance Amendments: In May 2022, the City Council approved amendments to the City’s slope regulations that will assist owners of properties with slopes while ensuring that development on sloped properties minimizes any environmental or potential safety impacts.
The ordinance implements policy in the 2030 General Plan that directs that engineering geology reports be conducted when there is a potential for slope instability. The new regulations move away from a strictly percent-of-slope based standard to being based on the specific geologic conditions of the property, potentially allowing property owners to more fully enjoy the use of their properties while ensuring that development is safe.
Climate Action Plan 2030: The City Council adopted the City’s first Climate Action Plan in 2012 with a 2020 time horizon. In September 2022, City Council approved the Climate Action Plan 2030 (CAP 2030). This project included extensive community outreach process entitled “Resilient Together.” The process also included the use of an equity screening tool to ensure that recommended actions did not have adverse impacts on equity. The CAP 2030 includes an emissions target that is consistent with the State target for 2030 and is deemed reasonable and achievable: 40% reduction in emissions from a 1990 level by 2030. Small Housing Units Ordinance: In March 2022, City Council approved an ordinance amendment to the City’s regulations for small housing units that replaced the Small Ownership Unit (SOU) with a Flexible Density Unit (FDU). The SOU ordinance was originally enacted in 2007 to support homeownership by providing regulations that were intended encourage the development of small units; however, in the years since this ordinance was enacted, only two SOU projects have been developed. Staff analyzed the ordinance and determined that while certain aspects of the ordinance encouraged the development of this type of unit, other factors limited its potential. Removing the requirement that 50% of the units in a project be ownership units, revising the unit size requirements, and allowing a mixture of unit types allows developers more flexibility to respond to market conditions while still providing small units that serve a portion of the City’s population and encouraging mixed-income development.
2022 Major Development Applications & Status Updates
Multiple significant development applications were processed, received building permits, or were under construction in 2022, including:
100 Laurel Street: 6-story mixed-use building with 205 new apartments and 7,085 sq. ft. of commercial space (building permits issued in 2021 and project was under construction in 2022);
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350 Ocean Street: 63 new apartments (62 low-income units) and 6,800 sq. ft. of commercial space (the project received its Certificate of Occupancy in 2022);
818 Pacific Avenue: Demolition of 3 commercial buildings and construction of a 7-story mixed-use building with 70 affordable housing units, 15,228 sq. ft. of ground floor commercial and residential amenity space, and 15,665 sq. ft. of medical office space on the second floor (building permits issued in 2022);
902 Pacific Avenue: Demolition of an existing structure and construction of a 7-story mixed use building with 127 affordable housing units, ground floor commercial, and second floor office space (entitlements approved in 2021 with a minor modification to increase the number of units from 94 to 127 approved in 2022);
130 Center Street: Demolition of an existing commercial building and construction of a 6-story mixed-use building with 233 Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units and 2,618 sq. ft. of ground floor commercial space (entitlements approved and building permit application submitted in 2022);
314 Jessie Street: The project will combine two parcels, demolish a 14-unit multi-family development and construct a 50-unit, 100% affordable multi-family development including housing and supportive services (entitlements approved and building permits submitted in 2022);
415 Natural Bridges: The project includes a transfer of 3,936 square feet of land from an adjacent parcel and construction of a 100% affordable, 20-unit Single Room Occupancy (SRO) project with a variation to allowed uses to allow an SRO use and variations to development standards for building height, side yard setback, and number of required parking spaces (entitlements approved and building permits submitted in 2022);
508 Front Street: 175 new residential units and 11,498 sq. ft. of commercial space (building permit under review and demolition and grading permits approved in 2022);
126 Eucalyptus: Senior living facility with 76 units, including 13 full dwelling units with the remaining units assisted living (entitlements approved and project appealed to Coastal Commission in 2022); 532 Center Street: Mixed-use supportive housing project with 2,210 square feet of commercial space, 65 100% affordable residential units, and a public paseo (entitlements approved and building permits issued in 2022); 119 Lincoln: Library mixed-use and affordable housing project including a new 38,000 square foot library, a parking structure with up to 350 parking spaces, up to 124 units of affordable housing, approximately 10,000 square feet of commercial space, and a commercial childcare facility (applied for entitlements in 2022);
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915 Water Street; Four-story mixed-use building with 1,079 square feet of ground floor commercial and 105 Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units (application for entitlements submitted in 2022); Promotion of Infill Development
The list of Major Development Applications, above, demonstrates that the City is committed to encouraging well-planned infill development. The City’s established greenbelt ensures that compact and focused development will continue to be a high priority, and virtually all development within the City is considered infill. The majority of the projects listed above are in the downtown area or along the major traffic corridors.
Intergovernmental Coordination
The City regularly coordinates with a variety of agencies and jurisdictions, including the County of Santa Cruz; the Cities of Scotts Valley, Capitola and Watsonville; Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG); California Coastal Commission (CCC); Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (METRO); Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (SCCRTC); University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC); the Soquel Creek Water District (SCWD); the Santa Cruz Mid-County and Santa Margarita Groundwater Agencies (MGA and SMGWA, respectively); the Monterey Bay Community Power Board (MBCP); the Monterey Bay Air Resource District (MBARD); the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO); the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); the State Housing and Community Development Department (HCD); the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW); and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC). 2022 highlights are outlined below:
Continuum of Care and County Collaboration. During 2022, the City assisted the County in transitioning the County’s former Continuum of Care, the Housing Action Partnership, to the new Housing for Health Partnership (HHP). Through the HHP and through regular, weekly coordination the County, the City worked on a wide range of homeless services and homelessness response efforts. Collaboration regularly occurred on provision of shelter services, on establishing clear roles and responsibilities across jurisdictions, on applying for grants, on awarding grant monies, and on a variety of other items. The City, County, and HHP also coordinated closely with non-profit partners who deliver homeless services.
In working on the City’s 6th Cycle Housing Element in 2022, the City consulted with AMBAG as well as other local jurisdictions on new State regulations for Housing Elements. The City also attended webinars and reviewed website information from HCD and AMBAG.
CITY COUNCIL INITIATIVES
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In 2022, the City continued to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic as well as on-going issues related to addressing the City’s unhoused population.
Earlier in the pandemic, the City had allowed temporary use of some portions of streets and sidewalks for “parklets,” allowing businesses, particularly restaurants, to use public property to provide outdoor dining. In 2022, City Council adopted the Parklets Ordinance to make this allowance permanent.
A major 2022 City Council initiative was a ballot measure to change from at-large City Council elections with a rotation mayor to an elected mayor and to set district boundaries for councilmembers elected by district. The voters approved the ballot measure and the City’s first elected mayor and first two district councilmembers took office in December 2022.
In addition to the change in City Council election protocol, the City Council approved including several tax measures on the ballot in 2022 including in increase in Transit Occupancy Tax (TOT), a sales tax increase, and an Empty House tax. While the sales tax and Empty House tax measure both failed, the TOT measure was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. The City Council also voted to oppose a County measure that would have removed the “rail” portion of the Rail Trail from the project. This measure also failed.
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Selected Key Projects and Programs
PROJECT NAME DESCRIPTION HOW THIS PROJECT IMPLEMENTS
THE GENERAL PLAN 2030
1 PACIFIC STATION NORTH
The Planning Department approved an application to
redevelop the properties at 902, 912, 920 Pacific
Avenue and 333 & 423 Front Street in 2021, with a
modification to expand the number of units approved
in 2022. The properties are currently developed with
a commercial office building (the NIAC building) and
the Metro Center and have frontage on both Front
Street and Pacific Avenue. The application represents
the second phase of a two part entitlement process
for the redevelopment project that is a joint venture
between the City of Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz
Metropolitan Transit District (Metro) that began with
City Council approval of the reconfiguration of the
zoning and general plan designations on the project
sites and an adjustment of the lot lines to result in a parcel zoned for a mixed-use, multi-family
development along Pacific Avenue and a parcel for
the redevelopment of the Metro Center bus terminal
facing Front Street.
The development will include a 100% affordable, 7-
story, mixed-use building along Pacific Avenue with
commercial space, Metro Center offices, enclosed
public bike parking, and residential amenity space on
the ground floor, and 127 residential apartments on
floors two through seven. The project will provide
Status: The Planning entitlements for the
project were approved on June 2, 2021, with
building permits anticipated in 2022.
GP Chapter 3: Community Design
GP Chapter 4: Land Use
GP Chapter 5: Mobility
GP Chapter 6: Economic Development
CD3.3 Encourage assembly of small parcels
along transit corridors to achieve pedestrianoriented development compatible with neighborhood characteristics.
CD4.2 Ensure that new development and
right-of-way improvements enhance the
visual quality of streetscapes.
CD4.2.1 Where possible, site buildings at the
street frontage and place parking areas away
from street corners and to the rear of
buildings.
CD5.2 Require new development to include
elements that relate to the pedestrian scale.
CD5.2.1 Encourage buildings to be oriented
towards sidewalks, public plazas, walkways, or
rivers and to include features such as public
benches and natural seating areas.
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