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it° 1 c • MII'SUTFS APRIL 19, 1972 HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE 7 : 00 A .M . CITY MANAGER ' S OFFICE CITY HALL REDWOOD CITY MEMBERS PRES ENT : Chairman Paul C . Keckley , William Floyd , Tony Gonzales , Mary W . Henderson , Martin F . Mohr , and Frederick A. Soderer . MEMBERS ABSENT : Sylvester McGuire and Eugene Moriguchi . STAFF PRESENT : City Manager Fales , Housing Aide Ransom, and Planning Director Schroeter . VISITORS : Louis Knowles , P . 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Maxim K . Rice , P . 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Myron Filene , 410 Park Street , Redwood City James C . Harris, 2904 Kipling Street , Palo Alto Chairman Keckley called the meeting to order at 7 : 04 A .M. Housing Aide David Ransom distributed summaries of SB 1454 (Moscone ) prepared by the Land For People organization . The bill would create a state Housing and Community Development Agency "which could greatly facilitate construction of low and moderate income housing in our suburbs . " The agency would be empowered to issue no-interest loans and grants to non-profit housing corporations and would be able to buy land and then sell it for less than market value . The bill will probably be heard by the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization in May, with the tentative hearing date set for tha 18th . Mr . Ransom said that he hoped the Housing Concerns Committee would discuss the bill at an early date . The Housing Concerns Committee then turned its attention to staff ' s working draft of recommendations to the City Council concerning changes in the Proposed County Housing Element . At its March 22 meeting , the Housing Concerns Committee had decided to recommend that the City Council request the County Board of Supervisors to rescind certain changes in the County Housing Element adopted by the Regional Planning Committee . The draft recommended that Obstacle 7 of the Housing Element , omitted from the Housing Element by the RPC , be included in a revised form- - "Lack of uniform interpretation and enforcement of building codes helps prevent the formation of mass markets and makes the introduction of mass production techniques in the building industry very difficult . " The draft noted that changes made at the urging of Woodside , Portola Valley , and Atherton had "taken the teeth out" of a basic policy of the Housing Element that : "low- and moderate -income housing should be widely dispersed throughout the county . . . rather than concentrated in existing low- and moderate -income areas . " The draft argued that the changes constitute "discrimination by economic class " and that because minority racial groups are primarily of low- and moderate -income levels , the changes constitute discrimination on racial grounds as well . The purpose of the change , said the draft , seems to be " to maintain the elite and exclusive character" of high-cost , semi -rural residential areas . "The effect , " said the memorandum, "would be to A MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE APRIL 19, 1972 PAGE 1 OF 3