2021 GENERAL PLAN, INCLUSIONARY
HOUSING, & GROWTH MANAGEMENT
ANNUAL REVIEW REPORT
Planning & Economic Development Department
June 7, 2022
ANNUAL RESIDENTIAL PERMITS ISSUED
2013 - 2021
2 488
252
126
263
350
431 447
625
1404
0 200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS
ALLOCATION
3 Building Permits by Income Category
2015-2023
Income Category Extremely
Low
Very
Low
Low Moderate Above
Moderate
TOTAL
ABAG RHNA
2015 – 2023 * 520 521 671 759 2,612 5,083
Permits Issued
2015 – 2021 * 76 280 340 271 2,953 3,920
Remaining Need 444 241 331 488 (341)** 1,504**
* Includes RHNA allocations and credits transferred from the County to the City with the annexation of the Roseland area. ** City has issued building permits for more above-moderate residential units overall than RHNA requires, this does not reduce the remaining need generated by RNHA requirements for affordable units.
ECONOMIC VITALITY
4 TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT
Bicycle and Pedestrian Highlights
• Pilot program for shared scooters
• $15.4m in grant funding for a bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing spanning US-101 between Elliott Avenue and Edwards Avenue
• Bicycle/pedestrian webpage with links to plans, projects, and resources, including an interactive bicycle map and information on how to report hazards. • Corridor study identifying future bicycle and pedestrian improvements on Stony Point Road between Sebastopol Road and W Third Street.
• Bicycle parking inventory for Downtown and Railroad Square. • Countywide Vision Zero initiative.
5 TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT
Transit Highlights
• Fixed-route ridership totals were 760,000 in fiscal year 2020 to 2021 down from 1.5 million for fiscal year 2019 to 2020.
• Discounts or free fares are provided for SRJC students, veterans, youth, seniors, Medicare card holders, low-income adults, and persons living with a disability. The Y outh Unlimited Rides program has vastly exceeded ridership projections, with October and November 2021 showing youth ridership at 125% of pre-pandemic levels.
• Unlimited Rides pass program to employers, housing developers and institutions to provide deeply discount passes to employee's residence and for program participants. 6 PUBLIC SERVICES AND
FACILITIES ELEMENT
Parks
7 • Colgan Creek Park Playground Replacement
• A Place to Play Community Park Sports Field
Design
• Kawana Springs Community Park Community
Gardens Construction Drawings
• Finely Aquatic Center Spraygrounds Design
• Public Engagement, Planning, and Design for:
• South Davis Neighborhood Park
• Dutch Flohr Neighborhood Park Master
Plan Amendment
Colgan Creek Park Playground
Draft Concept for Finely Aquatic Center
Spraygrounds
PUBLIC SERVICES AND
FACILITIES ELEMENT
Police and Fire Services
8 • Police personnel responded to 109,337 calls for service in 2021 • Community-oriented policing efforts by assigning officers and sergeants to specific beats throughout the City
• Collaboration with neighborhood associations, partner City Departments, Community Based Organizations, County partners, and other jurisdictions to develop best practice strategies and responses • Fire Department responded to 28,064 calls for service in 2021 • Sonoma County Fire District agreement - ensures the closest, most appropriate fire resources are dispatched to an incident regardless of jurisdictional boundaries
• Santa Rosa Mutual Threat Zone Operating Plan -joint response plan with the Sonoma County Fire District and CALFIRE to cover specific wildland/urban interface areas
PUBLIC SERVICES AND
FACILITIES ELEMENT
Water and Wastewater
9 • Completed installation of automatically read
water meters
• Promotion of water use efficiency programs
• Sewage treated at the Laguna Treatment
Plant (LTP) is beneficially reused by the
Santa Rosa Regional Water Reuse System
OPEN SPACE AND
CONSERVATION ELEMENTCreek Stewardship Program
• Helps care for more than 100 miles of
creeks within the Urban Growth
Boundary
• 6,100 participants in the Program
• 250 educational and stewardship activities
• 1,300 cubic yards trash/debris collected in
2021
Citywide Creek Master Plan
• Phase II of Colgan Creek Restoration –
2,000 linear foot reach
• Maintenance of Phase I of Colgan Creek
Restoration continued in 2021
10 ARTS AND CULTURE ELEMENT
11 Unum by Blessing Hancock
Ruth AsawaArt Panels
NOISE AND SAFETY ELEMENT
12 • Multijurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan
adopted November 2021
• $8 million of PG&E Settlement funds for
Vegetation Management Program and Wildland
Resiliency and Response Strategic Plan
• Earthen berm at Treatment Plant for flood
protection – Final grant phase
• Emergency Operations Center activated one
time during 2020
13 HISTORIC PRESERVATION
ELEMENT
YOUTH AND FAMILY
ELEMENT
18 Landmark Alteration Permit
applications were submitted in 2021
The Partnership
CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
• A Reusable and Compostable Food Ware Ordinance;
• A Citywide Energy Efficiency, Renewables, and
Microgrid Feasibility Study;
• Implementation of Water’s Energy Optimization Plans;
• City’s Fleet Vehicle T elematics update;
• City’s Climate Action Plan update scope and timeline; and
• Direction to draft ordinance prohibiting the
construction of new gas stations
14 GROWTH MANAGEMENT
Allotments
• Dedicated at building permit
approval or final map recordation
• 800 new allotments available in
2021
• 1,225 Reserve “A” qualifying units
permitted (includes 825
allotments which remained
available from 2015 - 2018)
• 179 Reserve “B” qualifying units
permitted
15 162,000
177,017 175,625 173,628 171,711
237,000
0 50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
2010 2018 2019 2020 2021 2035
Total Population - Santa Rosa
INCLUSIONARY HOUSING
ORDINANCE
Between January 1 and December 31, 2021:
• 298 allocated units were issued building permits
• $1. 58 million collected in Housing Impact Fees
16 WAIVE COUNCIL POLICY 200 -01 REQUIREMENT
FOR A JOINT STUDY SESSION
• Staff recommends waiving the requirement to hold a joint study session with the Planning Commission during the General Plan update process • The General Plan Annual Review Report prepared annually consistent with state law • Presented to Planning Commission at a regularly scheduled public meeting • Consent item for the Council
• Resume General Plan Annual Review reporting consistent with Council Policy 200-001 requirements after adoption of General Plan 2050
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It is recommended by the Planning Commission and the
Planning and Economic Development Department that the
City Council, by motion:
1) receive and approve the 2021 General Plan,
Inclusionary Housing, & Growth Management Annual
Review Report and
2) waive the Council Policy 200-001 requirement for a
joint study session on the General Plan Annual Review
to allow for a streamlined General Plan Annual Review
process until the adoption of General Plan 2050.
QUESTIONS / COMMENTS
Amy Nicholson, Senior Planner
Planning and Economic Development Department
[email protected]
(707) 543-3258
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