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B-2 <br /> <br />ID # Comment from Commission Proposed Edit <br />Action <br />54.01-B <br />The City needs a metric to <br />determine if the desired balance <br />between affordable and market <br />rate housing is being achieved. <br />Lately it seems the City is <br />building only affordable units, <br />and is actually losing existing <br />market rate units as they are <br />rehabbed and converted to <br />affordable units. <br />Add new action: <br />Action 54.01-B: Monitoring Housing Production <br />As a component of the Annual Report, include data on the <br />balance between market rate and affordable housing <br />production in San Leandro. Use this data to shape the City’s <br />housing and economic development programs, and to identify <br />funding priorities. During the last seven years, San Leandro <br />gained more than 1,000 housing units for low and very <br />income households through new construction and the <br />conversion of market-rate rental apartments to affordable <br />apartments. Fewer than 120 new market-rate units were <br />added during this period. While there is an urgent need for <br />affordable housing, there is also a need for moderate and <br />above moderate income housing. Maintaining a balance is an <br />important part of the City’s vision. This action would result <br />in a new heading added to the City’s Housing Element annual <br />progress report which assesses the balance between market <br />rate and affordable housing as one factor in setting priorities <br />and allocating the housing program budget for the coming <br />years. <br />Policy <br />55.04 <br />Clarify that we mean by <br />“Encourage” when we talk about <br />the rent to buy program. <br />Encourage property managers and absentee owners of San <br />Leandro single family homes to offer “rent with the option to <br />buy” programs for local families when they apply for <br />permits, pay business taxes, or have other interactions with <br />the City. This could create additional opportunities for <br />renters to become homeowners. <br />Action <br />56.01-C <br />Action relates to rental units, but <br />appears under the policy for <br />owner-occupied units <br />Re-label this as Action 56.02-B <br />Action <br />56.02-C <br />Add an action to retrofit soft- <br />story apartment buildings <br />Add new Action 56.02-C: <br />Action 56.02-C: Soft-Story Retrofit Program <br />Explore the feasibility of a formal program to retrofit soft- <br />story multi-family buildings in San Leandro, thereby <br />protecting an important and potentially vulnerable component <br />of the City’s housing supply. While the City has programs to <br />retrofit unreinforced masonry buildings and wood frame <br />homes, it does not have a program to retrofit soft-story <br />buildings. Such buildings are typically two to three stories <br />tall, with ground floor car ports and other ground floor <br />openings that require additional stability to withstand a <br />major earthquake. Some cities have provided programs <br />requiring the installation of shear walls and other <br />improvements to reduce the risk of collapse. The 2002 <br />General Plan estimated that San Leandro had 350 soft-story <br />buildings. This program would evaluate the current level of <br />risk and the options for a program to retrofit these structures. <br />(See also Action 29.02-C in the Environmental Hazards <br />Element of the 2015 San Leandro General Plan)