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Planning and Building Department, Economic Development and Administrative Division, recommending the Board:
1) Hold a workshop to discuss affordable housing issues and topics identified by the Affordable Housing Task Force; and
2) Provide direction to staff on potential solutions and priorities for addressing affordable housing challenges within El Dorado County that should be incorporated in an Affordable Housing Ordinance.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Since the adoption of the General Plan Housing Element Update (2013-2021) in 2013, the County identified the need for incentive-based policies that would “encourage, assist, and monitor the development of housing that is affordable” to extremely low to moderate households and expand upon state-prescribed incentives in its Implementation Measure HO-2013-6. This implementation measure was carried forward into the current Housing Element Update (2021-2029) as Implementation Measure HO-5. In addition, the County included HO-37 in the current Housing Element Update, which requires the development of an Affordable Housing Ordinance that would encourage and assist the development of affordable housing by “considering a variety of housing policy tools, including inclusionary housing.” An Affordable Housing Ordinance would help to incentivize the production and preservation of affordable housing that is aligned with the County’s goals while addressing its regional share of housing needs. Currently, the County lags in producing units for very low, low, and moderate-income households.
The County included the task of developing an Affordable Housing Ordinance on its Long Range Planning’s (LRP) yearly “Priority Matrix” or “Workplan” since the February 28, 2017, Board Meeting (Legistar file 16-0069).
On May 10, 2022 (Legistar file 22-0727), the LRP Division hosted a joint information workshop for the Board and Planning Commission to solicit input and direction from the Board and Planning Commissio...
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