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City of Salinas
Housing Element Update
Planning Commission
June 3, 2009
Meeting Agenda
• Overview of the Housing Element Update
and Process
• Review of New Legislation
• Policy and Program Discussion
 Adequate Sites Requirement
 Emergency Shelters- SB 2
• Next Steps
What is a Housing Element?
• One of the Seven State-Mandated
Elements of the General Plan
• Plans for the Provision of
Housing for a Variety of
Income Levels
• Assesses Housing Needs at
the Local Level
• Requires Review and Certification by the State
Housing Element Contents
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Needs Assessment
Resources and Constraints Analysis
Review of Past Performance
Policy Program
City of Salinas 2007-2014
RHNA Allocations (Growth Needs)
Income Category
Annual Income Range
Salinas Regional
Share (units)
Extremely lowincome
<30% MFI*
<$20,190
**456
Very low-income
0% - 50% MFI
$20,191 - $33,650
911
Low-income
51% - 80% MFI
$33,651 - $53,840
686
Moderate-income
81% - 120% MFI
$53,841 - $80,760
773
Above-moderate
income
>120% MFI
>$80,760
1,706
TOTAL
*MFI= 2009 Median Family Income ($67,300 for Monterey County)
**Regional share of extremely low-income units is assumed to be 50%
of the very low-income units
4,076
Housing Element
Update Process
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Phase 1: Public Participation Program
Phase 2: Review Existing Conditions
Phase 3: Prepare Draft Housing Element
Phase 4: Environmental Analysis
Phase 5: Housing Element Adoption
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
Winter 2009
Winter 2009
Winter/ Spring
2009
Spring/
Summer 2009
Phase 5
Summer/Fall
2009
Public Participation Program
• Community Workshop
 March 18, 2009, City Council Rotunda
 Key Comment Topics
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Housing Availability and Affordability
Infill and Redevelopment- Downtown
Special Needs Groups
Homeownership Challenges and Opportunities
Recent Legislation
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SB 520- Reasonable Accommodation
SB 1818 / AB 2280- Density Bonus
AB 2634- Extremely Low-Income
SB 2- Emergency Shelters
AB 2348- Adequate Sites
Policy and Program
Discussion
Adequate Sites Program
Remaining Regional Housing
Need Allocation
• Housing need in Moderate and AboveModerate income categories met
• Remaining housing need of 1,230 VeryLow and Low income units
• Zoning Code amendments and/or
rezoning required to meet remaining need
Adequate Sites Requirements
• Sites must permit rental and owner-occupied
multi-family residential units by-right
• Default density standard of a minimum 30 du/ac
• At least 50 percent of lower income need
accommodated on sites exclusively for
residential use
• Sites identified to meet the lower income
housing need must have density and
development standards that permit at least 16
units per site
Considerations to Meet
Adequate Sites Requirements
• Amend land use and development
standards in the Downtown Core to permit
by-right residential development with a
minimum density standard of 30 du/ac
 Approximately 9.4 acres of underutilized land
with capacity for 281 units
Considerations to Meet
Adequate Sites Requirements
• In addition to Downtown Core, rezoning to
 Permit by-right residential development with a
minimum density standard of 30 du/ac on a
minimum of 31.6 acres
 A minimum of 14.4 acres of the rezoned land
must permit exclusively residential use
Considerations to Meet
Adequate Sites Requirements
• Rezoning other Areas of the City
 In the vicinity of the multi-modal transportation
center;
 At the perimeter of the downtown;
 Contiguous with Focused Growth Areas; or
 As a part of areas that have been designated
for mixed-use development
• Overlay zone in the New Urbanism Interim
District
Zoning for Emergency
Shelters (SB 2)
SB 2 Requirements
• Identify a zone or zones where emergency
shelters are permitted by-right, without a
conditional use permit or other
discretionary action
• Must have capacity to accommodate the
identified homeless need and in any case
accommodate at least one year-round
shelter
• City can adopt objective development and
management standards
SB 2 Requirements
• 495 unsheltered homeless persons in
Salinas (2009 Homeless Count and
Survey)
• Staff has identified the Public/Semipublic
(PS) zone as a candidate zone to meet
requirements
Next Steps
• City Council Study Session- June 23rd
• Draft Housing Element will be submitted
to HCD for compliance and review
• HCD reviews for compliance and provides
City with letter of suggested revisions to
comply with State law
Next Steps
• City will address HCD comment letter and
consider third party comments
• Upon satisfying statutory requirements,
HCD will provide a letter of “substantial
compliance”
• Planning Commission will recommend
adoption of the Housing Element to City
Council