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Subject: Grant to increase housing
From: paula levine <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2022 2:29 pm
To: Trinidad City Clerk <[email protected]>
Gabe- please send to CC:
Grant to Increase Housing:
Regarding the City Counsel Consent Agenda, 10/11/2022, resolution 2022-12:
The City has determined it is routine to accept over $24 K from the State via the REAP Program, the objectives being to "increase availability of affordable homes...support planning efforts that will stimulate housing production" and is planning to accept the Grant without discussion.
The City has apparently no (actually, negative) political will to stimulate housing production, given numerous CC decisions in the past based on written comments on the desirability of restricting housing production. This begs questions about the proposed uses of the Grant $$. According to the City Manager report in the current 10/11 Packet, the CM claims that REAP money will be used to "improve city's development application forms... create FAQ... update website... implement policies in the City's Housing Element and prepare a preliminary annexation feasibility study..." Request: The City Counsel remove REAP from the Consent Agenda to discuss and inform the Public how any of the proposed uses of REAP money will in reality have any impact on stimulating housing production.
Questions:
1.What policies in the City's Housing Element need financial aid? It is well known that the City has almost no lots available for development.
2. What element in the website needs housing funds to be updated?
3. Can you provide the Public with any examples of FAQ related to increasing housing? What's the projected cost of posting a public list?
4. What needs to be updated on the City website related to REAP?
5. Can the City provide an example of how the City's development application forms may be improved to have a real impact on increasing affordable housing?
6. Why do a study on annexation when there is no water to provide further housing development? If this request is ignored, there is the public appearance that REAP $$ will likely be used to supplement the costs of paperwork and staff busy work, and not have any impact on REAP objectives.
Thanks,
Paula Levine
Mill Creek Lane
Trinidad
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