Sample Program 1: Zoning Amendments
The county will amend the zoning ordinance to remove constraints on the development of housing, including:
- Amending the second-unit ordinance to reduce required parking spaces to one.
- Amending the definition of “family,” as follows . . .
- Prohibiting single-family uses in multifamily zones.
- Eliminating the conditional-use permit for multifamily uses in multifamily zones.
Objectives: Promote development of multifamily rental housing. Eliminate impediments to fair housing. Facilitate the development of 20 second units in the planning period.
Responsible Agency: Planning Division
Timeline: Amend second-unit ordinance by June 2019. Amend definition of “family” in zoning ordinance by January 2019. Establish administrative site-plan review for multifamily and require conditional-use permit for single-family in multifamily zones by January 2019.
Funding Source(s): General Fund
Sample Program 2: Parking Reductions
The city will amend the zoning ordinance to reduce parking standards (including guest parking) for multifamily uses in multifamily zones, as follows:
- Zero to one bedroom: one onsite parking space.
- Two to three bedrooms: two onsite parking spaces.
- Four or more bedrooms: two and one-half onsite parking spaces.
Objective: Address constraints and facilitate the development of multifamily housing Responsible Agency: Community Development Department
Timeline: Adopt zoning ordinance amendments by January 2019
Funding Source(s): General Fund
Sample Program 3: Reasonable Accommodation Ordinance
The city will adopt a written, reasonable-accommodation ordinance to provide exception in zoning and land use for housing for persons with disabilities. This procedure will be a ministerial process, with minimal or no processing fee, and will be subject to approval by the Community Development Director applying following decision-making criteria:
- The request for reasonable accommodation will be used by an individual with a disability protected under fair housing laws.
- The requested accommodation is necessary to make housing available to an individual with a disability protected under fair housing laws.
- The requested accommodation would not impose an undue financial or administrative burden on the city.
- The requested accommodation would not require a fundamental alteration in the nature of the city's land-use and zoning program.
Objective: Facilitate the development, maintenance and improvement of housing for people with disabilities; reduce processing time for reasonable accommodation requests by 50 percent.
Responsible Agency: Community Development Department
Timeline: Adopt zoning ordinance amendments by December 2018
Funding Source(s): General Fund
Sample Program 4: Fee Deferral
The city will continue to allow payment of fees upon certificate or occupancy, rather than prior to building-permit issuance, to reduce developer construction financing costs and overall development costs for housing affordable to lower-income households.
Objective: Promote the financial feasibility of development affordable to lower-income households.
Responsible Agency: Planning Division
Timeline: On-going
Funding Source(s): General Fund
Sample Program 5: Expedited Permit Procedures
The city will establish an expedited permit procedure for developments with units affordable to lower-income households. The procedure will establish written and specific procedures to prioritize affordable rental development in the city’s entitlement process.
Objective: Expedite permit procedures for developments affordable to lower-income households. Approve and expedite at least five rental developments affordable to lower-income households.
Responsible Agency: Community Development Department
Timeline: Adopt procedure by June 2019
Funding Source(s): General Fund
Sample Program 6: Density Bonus Ordinance
The zoning ordinance will be amended to include/revise the density bonus ordinance that complies with state density bonus law Government Code Sections 65915 through 65819.
Objective: To promote the financial feasibility of development affordable to lower-income households utilizing density bonuses, incentives, and concessions.
Responsible Agency: Planning Division
Timeline: Adopt by end of 2019
Funding Source(s): General Fund