Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Steve Monowitz, Community Development Director
Subject: A resolution authorizing and directing the Community Development Director, or his designee, to submit an application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development for SB 2 Planning Grant Program Funds in the amount of $310,000.
County File Number: PLN2019-00439
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing and directing the Community Development Director, or his designee, to submit an application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development for SB 2 Planning Grant Program Funds in the amount of $310,000 to fund environmental analysis of the potential rezoning of portions of unincorporated North Fair Oaks along El Camino Real and Middlefield Road.
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BACKGROUND:
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is authorized to provide up to $123,000,000 to local jurisdictions under the SB 2 Planning Grants Program (PGP). HCD will provide the SB 2 funding to jurisdictions in order to assist in accelerating housing production, through updating zoning and other regulations, undertaking environmental review, and a variety of other eligible activities intended to increase and facilitate housing production while also advancing various State program goals. HCD issued a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the SB 2 PGP in March 2019. The County, based on its population size, is eligible for $310,000 from this program.
DISCUSSION:
The PGP funding is non-competitive funding that will be awarded to all jurisdictions that apply, if the activities described in the grant application are eligible for funding pursuant to the program requirements. The Planning and Building Department has proposed rezoning multiple areas along El Camino Real and Middlefield Road, areas directly adjoining newly rezoned CMU-1, CMU-2, and CMU-...
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