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<br />Page | 5 <br /> <br />· Restrict affordability in perpetuity (rental and ownership) <br /> <br />Affordable Housing Development Incentives: The HHCC believes the incentives <br />that are currently in place are serving this proposed policy well. However, the <br />Committee would like to stress the importance of the need for Council or the <br />Planning/Housing Division to promote the awareness and education of the myriad <br />incentive options that Redwood City offers to developers that provide or may be <br />thinking of providing affordable housing development. <br />Senior and Special Needs Housing: The HHCC recommends that practices be put in <br />place to make it easy to navigate and locate senior and special needs housing. <br />Accessible Housing. The HHCC recommends the following related to accessible <br />housing: <br />· Develop a way to make it easy to locate accessible units. <br />· Use Housing Impact Fees or Inclusionary Zoning In Lieu fees to complete <br />accessibility modifications to make units accessible. <br /> <br />Affordable Housing / Housing Impact Fees: The HHCC is recommending the Council <br />adopt a specific strategy to spend the affordable housing impact fees once received. <br />Next Steps <br />No legal review or detailed staff review for administrative feasibility has been conducted for <br />these recommendations. Based on the Council and HHCC discussion, staff and the City <br />Attorney’s Office will move forward with legal review and feasibility analysis in order to return <br />with a series of actions for Council adoption. <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVES <br /> <br />The Council and HHCC may wish to go into greater detail on the housing polices above, <br />and/or recommend alternative housing policies. <br /> <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />All of the policies above will take a significant amount of time to develop, and some <br />would have an ongoing staff implementation cost for which funding has not been <br />identified. Financial impacts can be better assessed once specific policies have been <br />developed further. <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW <br /> <br />Council and HHCC discussion of the housing policies above does not qualify as a <br />project under the California Environmental Quality Act. <br /> <br />8.A. - Page 16