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ATTY/RESO.0065/CC RESO APPROVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUND ALLOCATION GUIDELINES <br />REV: 06-19-18 PR <br />Page 1 of 5 <br /> <br />RESOLUTION NO. ______ <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD <br />CITY APPROVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUND ALLOCATION <br />GUIDELINES <br /> <br />WHEREAS, housing is a high priority issue for the City of Redwood City and in <br />2015, the Redwood City Council set three primary goals for affordable housing: <br />1. Support programs and new policies aimed to ensure housing stability for <br />community members. These efforts focus on renter protections including minimum lease <br />terms and relocation assistance, preventing homelessness and other ways to support <br />housing stability. <br />2. Create new funding sources, regulations and incentives to produce new <br />affordable housing. These efforts include establishing new funding sources through <br />developer fees to create new affordable housing, and charging fees on short term housing <br />rentals to support affordable housing. <br />3. Increase the overall supply of housing, particularly the production of <br />affordable housing units. These efforts include requiring affordable housing with new <br />housing developments and other ways to build new units or buying land for new <br />construction, preserving existing affordable housing in the community and encouraging <br />the building of small units like accessory dwelling units/granny units; and <br /> WHEREAS, in December 2015, the City Council adopted the Affordable Housing <br />Impact Fee Ordinance as a mechanism to increase the supply of affordable housing and <br />preserve existing affordable housing pursuant to the City’s Housing Element; and <br />WHEREAS, the requirements of the Affordable Housing Impact Fee Ordinance <br />are to be incorporated into new Zoning Ordinance Article 29 (Requirements for Affordable <br />7.A. - Page 11