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City Council and Successor Agency and Public Financing Authority
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12/7/2015
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ORDINANCE NO. 2417 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY ADDING A NEW ARTICLE XVII (AFFORDABLE HOUSING IMPACT FEE) TO CHAPTER 18 OF THE REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL CODE NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council makes the following findings: A. The provision of safe and stable housing for households at all income levels is essential for the public welfare of the city. Housing in Redwood City has become steadily more expensive and housing costs have gone up faster than incomes. Federal and state government programs do not provide enough affordable housing to satisfy the needs of very low, low, or moderate income households. As a result, there is a severe shortage of adequate, affordable housing for extremely low, very low, lower, and moderate income households, as evidenced by the following findings in the City's 2015
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12/07/2015 <br /> C. The housing impact fee shall not apply to developers of residential or <br /> nonresidential development projects which fall within one or more of the following <br /> categories: <br /> 1. Residential or nonresidential development projects located on <br /> property owned by the state of California, the United States of America, or any of its <br /> agencies and used exclusively for governmental or educational purposes. <br /> 2. Any structure proposed to repair or replace a building that was <br /> damaged or destroyed by fire or other calamity, so long as the square footage and use of <br /> the building remains the same, and construction of the replacement building begins within <br /> one year of the damage's occurrence. <br /> 3. Residential or nonresidential development projects to the extent they <br /> have received a vested right to proceed without payment of housing impact fees pursuant <br /> to state law, including those that are the subject of development agreements currently in <br /> effect with the City, if such development agreements were approved prior to the effective <br /> date of this Article and where such agreements expressly preclude the city from requiring <br /> payment of the housing impact fee. <br /> 4. Residential or nonresidential development projects for which <br /> applications have been deemed complete prior to September 21, 2015. <br /> 5. Other uses that may be specified by resolution of the City Council. <br /> Section 18.271. —Alternatives to Payment of Housing Impact Fee: <br /> A. As an alternative to compliance with the basic provisions included in Section <br /> 18.269 of this Article, developers of residential or nonresidential development projects <br /> may propose to mitigate the affordable housing impacts of such development through the <br /> construction of affordable units on site or through an alternative mitigation program <br /> proposed by the developer and the community development director, such as the <br /> provision of off-site affordable units, donation of land for the construction of affordable <br /> units, or purchase of existing units for conversion to affordable units. <br /> 1. The City Council may adopt by resolution the percentage of <br /> affordable units needed to mitigate the impact of residential or nonresidential <br /> development projects on the need for affordable housing. <br /> 2. Any affordable rental or for-sale units proposed as an alternative to <br /> the payment of the housing impact fee shall be subject to the requirements described in <br /> Section 18.272 of this Article. <br /> 3. If a developer proposes to provide affordable rental units, then, to <br /> ensure compliance with the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (Chapter 2.7 of Title 5 of <br /> Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code), the City may only approve such a proposal if, as <br /> required by Civil Code Sections 1954.52(b) and 1954.53(a)(2), the developer agrees in a <br /> contract with the City to limit rents in accordance with Section 18.272 of this Article in <br /> ATTY/ORD.418/AFFORDABLE HOUSING IMPACT FEE ORD.#2417 <br /> REV:10-22-15 VR FORMERLY MUFF#100 <br /> Page 6 of 11 <br />
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