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Home My WebLink About03/27/2013 Planning Commission MinutesCHUU VISTA 'City of. Chula 'Vista Boards & Commissions Commission min a REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA PLANNING COMMISSION March 27, 2013 6:00 p.m. CALL TO ORDER At 6:04 p.m. Council Chambers Public Services Bldg 100 276 Fourth Avenue ROLL CALL: Commissioners Anaya, Calvo, Livag, Spethman, Vinson and Chair Moctezuma Members Present: Anaya, Calvo, Livag, Spethman, Vinson Members Absent: Chair Moctezuma MOTIONS TO EXCUSE: Chair Moctezuma had contacted staff and requested an excuse from tonight's meeting MSC (CalvoNinson) to excuse Chair Moctezuma. Motion carried PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND MOMENT OF SILENCE OPENING STATEMENT: 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: PUBLIC COMMENTS: There were none PUBLIC HEARINGS February 13, 2013 Approved with correction. 4 -0 -1 -1 Moctezuma absent Anaya abstained February 27, 2013 Tabled — no quorum 2. Public Hearing: Resolution of the Planning Commission of the City Of Chula Vista Recommending the City Council Adopt Negative Declaration (IS -12 -006) and the Housing Element Update of the General Plan for the 2013 -2020 Planning Period Planning Commission Agenda March 27, 2013 Page -2- Leilani Hines, Principal Project Coordinator, presented a PowerPoint presentation that covered the Housing Element Update. Major points were: Key Issues: 1) A greater need exists to preserve and expand affordable housing opportunities for thos existing extremely low and ver low- income households. 2) In addressing these needs, there are opportunities to revitalize, reuse, and enhance existing resources and look at new collaborations to leverage resources for the benefit of those in need of housing but also for the economic benefit of residents and the community. Regional Housing Needs Assessment A Regional Housing Nees Assessment prepared by SANDAG in October, 2011 for the period beginning January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2020 identifies Chula Vista's share of the region's housing needs as 12,861 new housing units, with 6,303 (57 %) allocated for lower income households. To address the City's needs for very low and low income (50 -80% of AMI or $66,100 /year for a familyof four) housing, Chula Vista must demonstrate that it has an adequate supply of land for higher density housing (30 or more dwelling units per acre). Appendix C of the Housing Element Update provides the details demonstrating that the City has adequate sites to satisy this requirement. Goals and Policies Goal 1: Maintain and Enhance Housing Stock and Neighborhoods Goal 2: Housing Opportunities that Meet the City's Diverse Needs Goal 3: Macimize Funding and Implementation of Services Vital to Community Housing Needs To realize these goals, the Policy and Implementation Plan details objectives, policies, and implementing programs according to three major policy focus areas: 1) Maintain and Enhance Housing and Residential Neighborhoods 2) Balance and Diverse Housing Opportunities; and 3) Government Role and Process The objectives, policies and programs are discussed in Section 3.0 of Part II of the Draft Housing Element Update. Planning Commission Agenda March 27, 2013 Page -3- Public Participation Process: The Development Services Department solicited community input in preparing and reviewing the City's Draft Housing Element Update. The City conducted a survey and workshops to obtain the views of citizens, developers, social service agencies, and other interested persons on the City's housing needs, and policies and programs to be implemented to address these needs. Summary of Conmments & HCD Compliance Review Throughout the citizen participation process, the City received comments and suggestions from concerned citizens, residential developers and advocates for affordable housing. A summary of the comments received are included within Appendix F of the Draft Housing Element Update. No comments on the Housing Element Update were received during the 30 -day comment period (Dec. 14, 2012 -Jan. 14, 2013). Comments were received on the Negative Declaration and are included with Attachment 3. HCD provided guidance to the City to ensure adequate information and discussions were provided relating to the following: • Identification of an adequate supply of land zoned at the appropriate density levels to accommodate the City's share of the region's new housing needs in all five income categories. • Identification of housing conditions based upon localized information, exclusive of Census information. • Analysis of fee estimates associated with single family and multi - family development and typical land costs. • Compliance with the Employee Housing Act requiring employee housing by right in single family housing zones for six or fewer persons and in agricultural zones with no more than 12 units or 36 beds. • Compliance with Snate Bill (SB) 2 (Emergency Shelters and Transitional Housing) to establish programs for the identification of appropriate zoning for emergency shelters to be allowed without discretionary actions and transitional housing considered as residential use submect to the same restrictions. • Compliance with SB 812 (Persons with Developmental Disabilities) to reflect statistics for the Chula vista area provided by Regional Center. • Compliance with Assembly Bill (AB) 1087 (Water /Sewer priorities for developments with affordable housing) to provide water and sewer serving agencies with a copy of the City's Housing Element upon adoption. Planning Commission Agenda March 27, 2013 Page -4- • Compliane with AB 162 (Safety and Conservation Elements /Floodplan data) upon revision and adoption of the Housing Element, ensure consistency of the Housing Element with the Safety and Conservation Elements of the General Plan. On February 19, 2013, HCD provided correspondence (Attachment 2) to the city regarding its review which found that the City's Housing Element, as revised and presented to HCD, addresses the statutory requirements and is in compliance with State Housing Element law (Article 10.6 of the Government Code). Recommendation: That the Planning Commission recommend the City Council adopt Negative Declaration (IS -12 -006) and the Housing Element update of the City of Chula Vista General Plan for the 2013 -2020 planning period. Board Discussion: Question: When talking about desparity, we're talking the west side more than the east side. Because we don't have a lot of available land opportunities on the western side, rental stock and home ownership opportunities are down. Did you take into consideration the Urban Core when you put together these numbers for residential development? Response: That was taken into consideration in terms of planning for growth in those areas, but the actual strategies and policies of the Urban Core — there's not a lot that talks about incentives for growth, but the strategy is more for the Western side and revitalization opportunities for existing housing as well as looking for sites that may present an opportunity to encourage development. There were additional questions regarding specific sites and what the City is doing in terms of marketing to developers. The Housing Element does not go into the detail of specific sites, but rather talks about how the projects fit into the community. There was more discussion about development possibilities, existing housing stock and incentivizing projects. Hines stated that the Housing Element speaks to that when a project comes forward, especially in light of the more limited funds, that you take into consideration how it fits into the community, how it helps with revitalization and how does the City encourage the project to go forward. Since the City has only $500,000 of Federally provided money, those dollars should be leveraged as much as possible. The City is required to have a Housing Element and to provide programs and strategies and we hope that somehow they will be an asset and work. The Housing Element is currently more about directives and policies, not financial assistance. Planning Commission Agenda March 27, 2013 Page -5- Discussion was continued and Assistant Director of Development Services Eric Crockett expounded on how the Housing Element works and gave examples of how it could work with the developers. Further topics included: • Mobilehome parks and whether there is protection of land within them • Medium income levels for Housing Element and developer requirements • Income levels and development on east vs west sides of Chula Vista • Federal requirements to spend Housing Element dollars • Public Outreach and Stakeholder meetings Resolution: PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. GPA 12 -05 RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CIRCULATE THE DRAFT HOUSING ELEMENT FOR THE 2013 -2020 PLANNING PERIOD TO THE PUBLIC AND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT MSC: Vinson /Livag Motion passed: 5 -0 -1 -0 with Moctezuma absent OTHER BUSINESS 3. DIRECTOR'S REPORT: There was nothing 4. COMMISSION COMMENTS: There were none ADJOURNMENT at 6:51 p.m. to the next Regular Planning Commission Meeting on April 10, at 6:00 p.m., in the Council Chambers. Subriiitted by: Patricia Laughlin, Board �u4retary Minutes Approved: 04/24/2013 Livag /Spethman