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• place almost total responsibility for satisfying the need of low/moderate -income housing on the shoulders of those jurisdictions already impacted with low/moderate- income housing . " The draft agreed with RPC staff ' s objections to adopting the changes , that "low and moderate income households should have the same amount of choice in selecting housing as do other income groups , " and that to confine their selection to prescribed areas creates social and economic stratification and ghettoization, " which " intensifies the fiscal burden which is placed on some of the cities , " among them Redwood City . The draft recommendations urged that the changes in Goal 3 be stricken and that the Housing Element clearly state : "That each jurisdiction of the County , and the County itself in the unincorporated areas will be responsible for provision of adequate low/moderate-income housing for County residents , regardless of race , creed , color , national origin , cr economic status , proportional to the available population of that jurisdiction . " The memorandum recommended restoring a stricken "civil rights " provision : " Investigate feasibility of requiring as a condition for granting a use permit , building permit , or rezoning , submission of a written statement declaring intention to comply with federal and state civil rights anti -discrimination legislation . " And it urged inclusion of an Action F : "Develop a procedure on the local level to strengthen the ability to enforce protection of fundamental rights in the pursuit of satisfactory housing . " (This had already been recommended by the Housing Concerns Committee , but refused by the Regional Planning Committee . ) The dousing Concerns Committee adopted the memorandum and forwarded it to the City Council with only a few changes and additions . Concerning the section clearly stating the responsibility of each jurisdiction for providing low/moderate - income housing , committee members and visitors questioned whether the proportion of low/moderate- income housing for which each jurisdiction should be responsible should be tied down to population alone . They suggested including consideration of the land and financial resources available to each jurisdiction . The Housing Concerns Committee decided to make each jurisdiction responsible for providing low/moderate-income housing "proportional to the available land and fiscal resources of that jurisdiction, and at least proportional to the population of that jurisdiction . " Housing Aide Ransom said that he had omitted from the draft any reference to two added functions for the proposed housing advisory committee to the RPC , thinking that , searching for new techniques of financing low/moderate- income housing and research devices for reducing costs to qualified sponsors might not be so unreasonable a job for the advisory committee as the first reading had suggested . Mary Henderson said that she felt that the inclusion of those tasks for the housing advisory committee was inappropriate., because they attempted to spell out in too great detail how the committee was to go about its broader tasks . Bill Floyd said that the added functions might give the committee an excuse to do studies rather than get on with concrete plans and programs . The Committee voted to include a recommendation that these added functions be omitted from the Housing Element . City Manager Pales told the Housing Concerns Committee that in its discussion of the draft, staff had questioned whether or not it was politically feasible to MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE APRIL 19 , 1972 PAGE 2 OF 3