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DRAFT ADDENDUM TO HOUSING ELEMENT <br />Following a conference call between Jess Negrete (California Department of Housing and <br />Community Development), Tom Liao, and Barry Miller on October 28, 2014, the following changes <br />are proposed to the Working Draft 2015-2023 San Leandro Housing Element: <br />1 <br />HCD Comment: How much is in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund? <br />City Response: On P. 2-16 (tracked change version), in the progress report on the implementation of <br />Goal 53 programs, edit Action 53.03-C, the third column is edited as follows: <br />ADVANCE. The City continues to maintain an Affordable Housing Fund using these two <br />sources. The Fund's revenue balance as of June 30, 2014 was approximately $65,000. <br />2 <br />HCD Comment: While it is fine to identify Improvement to Land Ratio as a metric for identifying <br />underutilized sites, the text should also note that the site inventory considered other factors such as <br />whether or not there was an active business on the site. <br />City Response: On P. 4-7 (tracked change version). A new paragraph has been added (see yellow <br />highlighted text below), explaining that other metrics were also used, and noting that many of the <br />largest sites in the TOD area around the San Leandro BART station are vacant. <br />As in the last two Housing Elements, the site inventory focuses on areas where detailed planning <br />studies have been completed or are pending, including the San Leandro BART Station area, the <br />Bayfair BART Station area, and the East 14th Street (South Area) corridor. An emphasis was <br />placed on sites where the assessed value of land, as reported by the Alameda County Assessor's <br />Office, is at least four times higher than the assessed value of improvements on the property. The <br />land to improvement value is an important indicator of underutilization and is a helpful tool for <br />identifying sites more likely to redeveloped. <br />Other indicators also were considered, including the extent and type of existing structures on the <br />property the presence of active businesses, and the proximity of each site to a BART station. <br />Although a few of the Housing Opportunity Sites contain active businesses, these businesses are <br />generally lower -value structures such as used car dealerships (with portable sales offices), non- <br />conforming uses, or other uses that not reflective of long-range plans. In the San Leandro BART <br />Station Area, most of the housing capacity is associated with vacant land zoned for residential <br />uses with minimum density requirements of 60 units per acre. <br />3 <br />HCD Comment: The text on P 5-17 should indicate if the requirement that second units may not exceed <br />10 percent of the lot area is a constraint. <br />City Response: The new text on the first paragraph on P 5-18 has been edited as follows: <br />The increase in allowable unit size removed a constraint identified in the previous Housing <br />Element and should result in increased second unit applications in the coming years. The <br />requirement that second units may not exceed 10 percent of the lot area is not a constraint <br />because the minimum lot size in the City's single family zoning districts is 5,000 square feet, <br />with many neighborhoods comprised of 6,000 to 7,000 square foot lots. Smaller lots exist, <br />but they are typically located in multi -family or mixed use districts where second units are <br />less common. The requirement allows for second units in the 500 to 750 square foot range in <br />most single family neighborhoods. <br />2015-2023 San Leandro Housing Element Proposed Addendum * November 19, 2014 Page 1 <br />