TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Carrie Tai, AICP, Community Development Director
Quinn M. Barrow, City Attorney
SUBJECT:Title
Public Hearing to Consider Extending Interim Ordinance No. 21-0009-U Implementing Objective Development Standards for Senate Bill (SB) 9 Development (Community Development Director Tai).
A) CONDUCT PUBLIC HEARING
B) ADOPT URGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 22-0003-U EXTENDING THE INTERIM ZONING ORDINANCE FOR 10 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS
Line
_________________________________________________________
Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Urgency Ordinance No. 22-0003-U to extend Interim Ordinance No. 21-0009-U to maintain interim objective development standards for housing developments and lot splits authorized by Senate Bill 9 while the City studies such developments and urban lot splits.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There is no direct fiscal impact associated with the adoption of the attached Ordinance No. 20-0003-U. However, development of the permanent Zoning Code Amendments and companion Local Coastal Program Amendments for these objective development standards will require additional staff time and resources.
BACKGROUND:
SB 9 was signed into law on September 16, 2021, and took effect on January 1, 2022. SB 9 requires a city to approve ministerially (no public hearing or discretionary review) housing developments containing two housing units on a lot in a single-family zone. (An accessory dwelling unit (ADU) could then be constructed onto each housing unit for a total of four units on an existing single-family lot.)
SB 9 also requires cities to ministerially approve an urban lot split, which is a subdivision of one lot in a single-family zone into two lots, of approximately equal size. With a maximum of two units allowed on each of the lots, what was once a single lot could be split into two parcels under SB 9 and accommodate up to four residential units...
Click here for full text