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6.3C REPORT Page 1 To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager August 28, 2006 Subject Participation in the Association of Bay Area Governments' (ABAG) Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Sub-regional Process, as part of Redwood City's General Plan Housing Element Update for 2009. Recommendation Review and approve resolution authorizing the City to become a member of a Countywide Sub-region, an entity that would locally administer ABAG's regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) process. Refer to Exhibit A. Background Every five to seven years each city within San Mateo County receives a 'fair share' of the projected Bay Area housing need, based on state population growth projections, from the state Housing and Community Development (HCD) Department. The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) takes this regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) number and dis-aggregates it to the local level (i.e. to all cities within San Mateo County). ABAG further divides this number into four income groupings: very low (<50% of County median); low (50 - 80% of County median); moderate (80 - 120% of County median); and above moderate (>120% of County median). Cities are responsible for ensuring that adequate housing sites are available to accommodate their 'fair share' of the RHNA. Redwood City's RHNA numbers for the current Housing Element (1999-2006) are as follows: 534 very-low income housing units; 256 low income housing units; 660 moderate income housing units and 1,094 above-moderate income housing units. State law now allows cities within the County to join together to form a "sub-region". a consortium that would administer the State mandated RHNA program at the local level. Each member jurisdiction of a sub-region must submit a resolution to ABAG requesting authority to locally administer the program by August 31,2006. ABAG would then adopt a resolution approving the formation of the sub-regions. This process would estabJish the housing numbers to be used in each city or county as part of the Housing Element update for 2009. The City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County (C/CAG) would like to form a sub-region consisting of all the cities and the County. A sub-region may be comprised of two or more contiguous cities within San Mateo County. C/CAG has indicated interest in supporting this effort if the individual cities and the County are interested. Therefore, C/CAG is coordinating the creation of a countywide sub-region that includes most if not all San Mateo County cities and the County. C/CAG will provide facilitation and staff support as necessary. The sub-region would receive a housing allocation from AGAB on May 1, 2007. By June 30, 2007, the sub-region would distribute draft housing allocations to its member jurisdictions. local jurisdictions may request revisions to their draft housing allocations. -