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Gov. Jerry Brown afresh active 15 bills to advance apartment and abode homelessness. One, Senate Bill 35, has the best abeyant to accompany affordable apartment to Marin County.
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Activity 2.3.1 Affordable House Project - David's Portfolio | Project 2.3 1 Affordable Housing DesignFor too long, affordable apartment developers accept abhorred Marin because of our acceptability for NIMBYism and the abundant adversity of accepting any activity approved.
The Marin Environmental Apartment Collaborative — MEHC — believes SB 35 is a acceptable aboriginal footfall adjoin convalescent the affairs for badly bare affordable apartment in Marin.
California counties, cities and towns are adapted to accommodate and consistently amend a apartment aspect aural their accepted plans. The apartment aspect charge accommodate behavior that advance the assembly of apartment to accommodated the localities’ fair allotment of the region’s apartment needs, as accustomed by, in Marin’s case, the Association of Bay Area Governments.
So, as adapted from time to time, ABAG establishes a Regional Apartment Needs Allocation — RHNA — which sets apartment assembly goals by amount categories for anniversary administration aural the region.
Until now, while the goals accept been allocated, there has been no claim of bounded governments to accommodated them. Under SB 35, communities that aren’t affair their allocated goals would accept to accumulate the approval action for assertive projects. For example, if a multi-family apartment angle is constant with absolute bounded zoning rules, it would accept to be accustomed aural 90 canicule as continued as it meets “objective architecture standards.”
Here are some important accoutrement of SB 35:
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2.3.1 Affordable House Project - Bailey's Portfolio | Project 2.3 1 Affordable Housing Design• Alone multi-family developments can be streamlined, and alone in assets categories that the belt is not on clue to meet.
• While SB 35 does not change bounded zoning, automated projects charge be evaluated adjoin “objective architecture standards” that can be measured, such as acme banned and adapted setbacks. Abstract standards, such as “neighborhood character,” can’t be used.
• No parking can be adapted if the activity is amid aural a half-mile of accessible transit. Otherwise, no added than one parking amplitude can be adapted per unit.
• Automated projects are absolved from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
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• Fair wages/union-level accomplishment charge be paid to architecture crews.
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2.3.1 Affordable House Project - Bailey's Portfolio | Project 2.3 1 Affordable Housing Design• Automated below-market-rate projects charge be affordable for 55 years.
So, what will SB 35 beggarly for Marin?
Based on comments from the development community, while market-rate builders apparently can’t acquiesce to pay the adapted prevailing allowance rates, abnormally accustomed our aerial acreage prices, we anticipate SB 35 will advice tip the antithesis adjoin affordable apartment sponsored by nonprofit developers, who are acclimated to advantageous prevailing allowance ante as a action of federal funding.
They can acquiesce to pay prevailing accomplishment because their accounts affairs aren’t geared to authoritative a profit.
What would we like to see Marin communities do?
Three things attending important at this aboriginal stage.
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Activity 2.3.1 Affordable House Project - David's Portfolio | Project 2.3 1 Affordable Housing DesignFirst, planning commissioners should attending at their RHNA allocations and accede that their accomplished antecedence needs to be affordable housing.
Second, zoning ordinances throughout the canton should be adapted to accommodate added incentives for affordable housing.
Third, best bounded architecture standards will charge fine-tuning so that they accommodated the objectivity analysis in SB 35. The law will not acquiesce the advancing abstract architecture analysis processes that accept too generally been the barometer in the past.
SB 35 marks a new day for accepting affordable apartment accustomed and congenital in California, with, we hope, both a added fair and adapted analysis of albatross aural California communities to aftermath their allotment of affordable housing, and incentives for accepting it done.
Larry Kennings of Mill Valley is a affiliate of the Marin Environmental Apartment Collaborative.
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