AgdaPkt 2008-08-25 Joint City Council, HHCC and Redevelopment

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7E-2 Page 2 . 124-136 Lincoln Avenue: Eight affordable townhouse units are under construction by Habitat tor Humanity; · Canada College: Planning process complete and construction plan review commenced for 60 rental units ot affordable housing tor employees; . 885 Woodside Road: Planning process complete and construction plan review commenced for 43 ownership units including on-site affordable units; . Area H: Planning process complete and construction plan review commenced for 156 ownership units; . Peninsula Park: Planning process complete for 800 ownership units including on- site and off-site affordable units. In May 2007, the City Council approved a very to/ward-thinking Precise Plan tor the Downtown area which includes a threshold of 2,500 new residential units over the life of the Plan. Several active applications totaling more than 300 units are being processed. Also, in the near-term, the City and Redevelopment Agency anticipate that a request for proposal for the Agency owned and land banked Bradford site located within the Downtown Precise Plan area will be released seeking development proposals for affordable senior housing. The new Housing Element must be submitted to the State in April 2009, and should be ready for certification by June 30, 2009. Because it is a part of the New General Plan, which is not anticipated to be adopted until Fall 2009, the New General Plan team will maintain communication with the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to ensure that Redwood City's schedule is well understood and that the State will support consideration of the new Housing Element within the comprehensive framework of a New General Plan. Currently Redwood City has a "conditionally certified" Housing Element. On March 4, 2004, HCD certified the document subject to incorporation of HCD requested revisions, (which were made and subsequently approved by HCD) and its adoption by the City Council (which was not done). The required Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Housing Element was put on hold until both the Downtown Precise Plan (DPP) and accompanying EIR were completed. However, by that time it was really too late to meet the time frame of the Element, and due to the completion of the DPP, the City's housing strategy has changed substantially. Consequently, the City's current 1999-2006 Housing Element is not certified because the EIR was never completed. Reqional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) State housing element law sets out the process for Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) as determined by the Association ot Bay Area Governments (ABAG) for each city in the Bay Area, and as adopted by the City Council for Redwood City. The RHNA serves as each jurisdiction's housing production goals that must be included in all Housing Elements. Addressing RHNA is a key criterion in the State's review of housing elements. RHNA is apportioned into four household income categories: "very low", "loW', "moderate", and "above moderate". The tables below describe the previous and current RHNA for Redwood City.