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6.3.B. - Page 1 RE PO RT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er January 28, 2013 SUBJECT Resolution to approve Redwood City's Proposed Final Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA) for the 2014-2022 General Plan Housing Element RECOMMENDATION Adopt a Resolution accepting the Proposed Final Housing Need Allocation for Redwood City for use in the 2014-2022 Housing Element. Attachments 1 BACKGROUND The California Housing and Community Development (HCD) Department issues Regional Housing Need Allocations (RHNA) to each regional association of governments for distributions within each region. The purpose of the RHNA distribution process is to ensure that the housing stock in California keeps pace with population growth and is priced for all household income levels. The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is required by State law to administer the RHNA program in the Bay Area. The RHNA numbers are then used by local jurisdictions in their state- mandated General Plan Housing Elements. The RHNA establishes the targets for housing production for all San Mateo County jurisdictions. State Housing Element law also now allows cities to join together to form county-wide "sub-regions," or consortiums to administer the State-mandated Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) at the local level. In San Mateo County this effort is known as "21 (Jurisdictions' Housing) Elements." A Policy Advisory Committee (PAC), comprised of one City Council representative from each of the participating San Mateo County jurisdictions, acts as the governing board of the sub-region and a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), comprised of senior level staff with technical expertise in the field of housing and land use from each jurisdictions, serves in an advisory role to the PAC. The primary benefit of forming a sub-region is to provide greater autonomy and flexibility and to better reflect the issues, opportunities and future vision of the collective jurisdictions. Absent a sub-regional approach, the RHNA allocated to each county in a region, such as the nine counties in the Bay Area region as overseen by ABAG, would be divided and assigned by formula to the individual jurisdictions in each County. Establishment of a sub-region allows the opportunity for a more strategic and realistic allocation of the RHNA and "trades" or "exchanges" of housing unit requirements between jurisdictions in the sub-region is encouraged. For example, jurisdictions with strategic infill development opportunities that utilize higher densities near transit are