Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Steve Monowitz, Community Development Director
Subject: 2016 Annual Report on Progress of Implementation of Housing Element Programs, and compliance with Regional Housing Needs Allocation
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution accepting the 2016 Annual Progress Report on Housing Element Implementation and RHNA Compliance.
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BACKGROUND:
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors adopted the County's 2014-2022 Housing Element in April of 2015, and the adopted Housing Element was certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) as compliant with State law.
The Housing Element, as required by State law, assesses the County's existing and projected housing need, describes the County's Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) and the sufficiency of existing developable or re-developable residential sites to meet the RHNA, and establishes a number of programs intended to facilitate, ease, incentivize, and/or directly support housing production and rehabilitation. The County's Housing Element is available here: http://planning.smcgov.org/documents/housing-element.
Housing Element Chapter 9 describes the County's RHNA, and provides an inventory of available sites to meet the RHNA. Chapter 10 describes the County's Housing Element Policies, with objectives and implementation timelines.
Per California Government Code Section 65400, each jurisdiction with an adopted Housing Element must complete an annual report on the progress of implementing the policies in its Housing Element, and must also provide a report on annual housing production, for comparison against the jurisdiction's RHNA. This report must be completed on forms prescribed by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), and must be:
1. Submitted to both HCD and the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR...
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