FROM:
Heidi Scoble, Planning Director
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Housing Element Update and Confirm Housing Opportunity Sites
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RECOMMENDATION
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Receive and file Housing Element Update, discuss and confirm the proposed Housing Opportunity sites, and select up to three opportunity sites for visualization renderings to be prepared.
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BACKGROUND
Every eight years, every city, town, and county must update the Housing Element of their General Plan and have it certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). The Housing Element addresses a range of housing issues such as affordability, design, housing types, density, and location, and establishes goals, policies, and programs to address existing and projected housing needs. The Housing Element must be internally consistent with other parts of the General Plan and is critical to having a legally adequate General Plan. The Housing Element must also identify how the town will meet its share of the region's housing need, called the Regional Housing Needs Allocation, or RHNA.
As the Housing Element is a planning tool to help local governments make decisions about where safe, accessible, and diverse housing could be developed, in addition to identifying a mix of housing opportunities for a variety of household incomes, it is important to highlight that State law does not require that jurisdictions build or finance new housing.
The Town's RHNA allocation for the 6th housing Cycle is 833 Units and is comprised of the following income categories:
Extremely Low Income (0-30% Area Median Income): 127 units
Very Low Income (30%-50% Area Median Income): 126 units
Low Income (50%-80% Area Median Income): 145 units
Moderate Income (80%-120% Area Median Income): 121 units
Above Moderate Income (120% + Area Median Income): 314 units
The HCD will also require the Town to plan for up to a 20% buffer, for a total of approximately 1,000 housing units.
In preparation ...
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