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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-05-24 City Council EmailsDOCUMENTS IN THIS PACKET INCLUDE: LETTERS FROM CITIZENS TO THE MAYOR OR CITY COUNCIL RESPONSES FROM STAFF TO LETTERS FROM CITIZENS ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS FROM OTHER COMMITTEES AND AGENCIES ITEMS FROM CITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND REGIONAL AGENCIES Prepared for: 05/24/2021 Document dates: 05/05/2021 — 05/12/2021 Set 1 Note: Documents for every category may not have been received for packet reproduction in a given week. 701 Baumb, Nelly From: Hamilton Hitchings <hitchingsh@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 1:54 PM To: Council, City Cc: Shikada, Ed; Lait, Jonathan Subject: Housing Element Schedule end date is too late CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Dear City Council, The following are my own personal comments and do not represent the views of the Housing Element Working Group. While we had a good first Housing Element meeting, which staff put a lot of effort into, I had one big concern. The schedule proposed by staff has the City Council approving the Housing Element in November 2022 even although there is a drop dead date of January 2023 for submission. While, I like the city staffs proposal to incrementally bring parts of the housing element in front of the council including site selection and housing element policies and programs, as well as trying to engage the community early when possible, I am still very concerned about having a November 2022 final end date. I have been responsible for hundreds of successful projects delivered on -time in private industry, and observed that having no meaningful buffer in the schedule for final delivery is often a recipe for failure. There are other problems resulting from this late date including the fact that the final vote will be the same month as the city council election, a large amount of community input will be collected on the final version before city council votes with no real opportunity for the PTC and HEWG to iterate on that feedback and any objections to the final version raised by council will only have that city council meeting to revise. I believe the current schedule leads to a result where city council members and members of the public may not be particularly satisfied with the final Housing Element. I recommend the City Council direct staff to move the date for final approval of the Housing Element by City Council earlier, for example, to September 2022. Hamilton Hitchings i Baumb, Nally From: slevy@ccsce.com Sent: Monday, May 10, 2021 12:42 PM To: Wong, Tim Subject: memo to Housing Element Working Group Attachments: For the Housing Element Working Group.doc; abag_draft_rhna_methodology_release_december2020.pdf; ABAGRHNA-FinaI060920(r).pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Be cautious of opening attachments and clicking on links. Hi Tim, Please forward this email to the working group and not the one I sent earlier. In this memo I answer the questions raised at the meeting about the origin of the population projections used by HCD. Thanks Steve 3 ABAG Draft RHNA Methodology Release | December 18, 2020 | Page 1 RELEASE OF ABAG DRAFT RHNA METHODOLOGY AND FINAL SUBREGIONAL SHARES December 18, 2020 What is RHNA? The Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) is the state-mandated 1 process to identify the share of the statewide housing need for which each community must plan. As the Council of Governments (COG) for the Bay Area, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is responsible for developing a methodology for allocating a share of the Regional Housing Need Determination (RHND) the Bay Area received from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)2 to every local government in the Bay Area. The RHNA methodology is a formula that quantifies the number of housing units, separated into four income categories,3 that will be assigned to each city, town, and county in the region. The allocation must meet the statutory objectives identified in Housing Element Law 4 and be consistent with the forecasted development pattern from Plan Bay Area 2050.5 Each local government must then update the Housing Element of its General Plan and its zoning to show how it can accommodate its RHNA allocation. How was the Draft RHNA Methodology for the 2023-2031 RHNA Cycle Developed? ABAG convened an ad hoc Housing Methodology Committee (HMC) from October 2019 to September 2020 to advise staff on the methodology for allocating a share of the region’s total housing need to every local government in the Bay Area. The HMC included local elected officials and staff as well as regional stakeholders to facilitate sharing of diverse viewpoints across multiple sectors.6 At its final meeting on September 18, the HMC voted to recommend Option 8A: High Opportunity Areas Emphasis & Job Proximity with the 2050 Households baseline allocation as the Proposed RHNA Methodology. On October 1, the ABAG Regional Planning Committee voted to recommend this methodology for approval by the Executive 1 See California Government Code Section 65584. 2 In a letter dated June 9, 2020, HCD provided ABAG with a total RHND of 441,176 units for the 2023-2031 RHNA. 3 State law defines the following RHNA income categories: • Very Low Income: households earning less than 50 percent of Area Median Income (AMI) • Low Income: households earning 50 - 80 percent of AMI • Moderate Income: households earning 80 - 120 percent of AMI • Above Moderate Income: households earning 120 percent or more of AMI 4 See California Government Code Section 65584(d). 5 See Government Code Section 65584.04(m)(1). 6 The HMC roster is available at https://abag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/hmc roster 06 16 2020 0.pdf.