AgdaPkt 2016-07-25 Closed and Joint SA PFA

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26 properties compatible with adjacent historic resources and/or districts. The Project is in conformance with all of these related DTPP regulations, and the required architectural historian’s review found that the Project would not have an impact on the significance of the historic resource at 620 Jefferson Avenue, nor would the Project create a “substantial adverse change” that would affect the eligibility of the resource to be listed on the California Register of Historic Resources. This analysis complies with EIR Mitigation Measure 7-4 and the DTPP Historic Resources Mitigation Measure for the Project site, and as such no further CEQA analysis for historic resource impacts is required. III. The Project Complies with the City’s Adopted Affordable Housing Regulations, and is Not Subject to Payment of Community Benefits Appellants’ Contentions: Appellant questions the financial difference between the Project’s affordable housing impact fee and the cost it would take to build the affordable housing unit demand created by the project; how the affordable housing impact fee collected from the Project will be used; where the City stands on identifying affordable housing opportunity sites given the requirement to spend the Project’s impact fee on affordable housing; why the Project is not providing inclusionary housing; and why the Project does not have a formalized community benefits package. (See Kris Johnson Appeal, p. 2) City Response: The City recently developed a framework, known as “Partnership Redwood City,” which includes three distinct objectives: Update development fees and requirements, develop onsite community improvements, and develop of a community fund. The framework was developed to help deliver benefits to the community such as, but not necessarily limited to, affordable housing, improved schools, parks, transportation systems, programs for the arts, and support for special programs and events. It was within this framework that the City embarked upon, and ultimately adopted an affordable housing impact fee. On December 7, 2015 the City Council adopted an Affordable Housing Impact Fee Ordinance. The Ordinance allows developers to either pay a fee or provide affordable units within their development project. The Impact Fee applies to all development projects that are deemed complete after September 21, 2015, and the fee is imposed on all developers of residential and non-residential development projects (with some limited exemptions for very small-scale development projects and projects that include certain levels of affordable housing units). The Ordinance also established an “Affordable Housing Fund” into which all affordable housing impact fees are to be deposited. All monies in the Affordable Housing Fund are to be expended exclusively 8.C. - Page 26