TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, Interim City Manager
FROM:
Anne McIntosh, Community Development Director
George Gabriel, Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Request by Mayor Howorth and Mayor Pro Tem Napolitano to Send Letter of Opposition Regarding Senate Bill 827, Exempting Certain Housing Projects from Locally Developed and Adopted Height Limitations, Densities, Parking Requirements and Design Review Standards (Community Development Director McIntosh).
AUTHORIZE LETTER
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Mayor Howorth and Mayor Pro Tem Napolitano request that the City Council authorize a letter opposing Senate Bill (SB) 827.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
No fiscal implications associated with the recommended action.
BACKGROUND:
Authored by State Senator Scott Weiner (D-11-San Francisco), Senate Bill (SB) 827 exempts certain housing projects from locally developed and adopted height limitations, densities, parking requirements and design review standards.
SB 827 states:
"The Planning and Zoning Law requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of a local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents.
This bill would authorize a transit-rich housing project to receive a transit-rich housing bonus. The bill would define a transit-rich housing project as a residential development project the parcels of which are all within a 1/2 mile radius of a major transit stop or a 1/4 mile radius of a high-quality transit corridor, as those terms are further defined. The bill would exem...
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