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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes <br />December 18, 2014 <br />Page 2 of 6 <br />Commissioner Fitzsimons asked why the City Council removed the proposed action to study <br />the feasibility of a rental housing inspection program. Secretary Liao responded that their <br />concern centered on the feasibility of implementation and who would bear the burden of costs <br />for staffing. Some property owners voiced similar concerns at the City Council meeting. <br />Commissioner Fitzsimons asked if the document needed to go through another round of state <br />review if changes were made by the Commission. Mr. Miller answered that it would first be up <br />to the City Council to approve changes, and that changes could be submitted as an addendum as <br />long as they are consistent with the State Government Code. Additional edits to the document <br />would need to be highlighted when it is submitted to the State. <br />Commissioner Collier inquired where in the Housing Element mobile home parks are <br />addressed. Mr. Miller responded that the Housing Element addresses mobile home parks in two <br />ways: first, in noting that mobile home parks are permitted on single family lots on foundations, <br />and second, in noting the importance of mobile homes to the affordable housing stock. Mission <br />Bay is specifically mentioned as an important resource for seniors and an affordable housing <br />resource that should be preserved. There are specific policies in the document to preserve mobile <br />home parks and maintain their quality and affordability. <br />Commissioner Collier asked how the Planning Commission can ensure the future affordability <br />of mobile homes. Mr. Miller answered that there is language in the document that is specific to <br />the long-term affordability of Mission Bay but not to the other mobile home parks. He noted that <br />future actions to maintain affordable rents at other mobile home parks would be consistent with <br />the Housing Element but was not specifically being called for at this time. <br />Commissioner Hernandez asked if the City has completed a detailed evaluation to get a better <br />sense of the number of homes that are truly needed in the next several years. He asked if the <br />CEQA evaluation was based on buildout of all the opportunity sites, or only those we <br />realistically thought would be developed in the next 8 years. Mr. Miller said the CEQA <br />evaluation assumed all opportunity sites would be developed, noting that the environmental <br />effects of this quantity of development had already been assumed by the General Plan EIR <br />[Environmental Impact Report] and the Downtown TOD Strategy EIR. Commissioner <br />Hernandez disagreed with the CEQA document's conclusion that there had been "significant <br />achievements" in housing production. Mr. Miller commented that significant achievements do <br />not necessarily refer to the number of units produced. For example, the Lakeside Village <br />conversion of 800 units to affordable housing would be considered a significant achievement. <br />Other housing programs and actions would be significant achievements; for instance, the <br />approval of the BRIDGE project [Cornerstone Apartments]. Commissioner Hernandez asked <br />what the actual target was for housing production. Mr. Miller replied that the [Regional Housing <br />Needs Allocation] RHNA (2,287 units) was intended as a target. <br />Commissioner Hernandez asked if the City should do more than what is required to really <br />reinvest in the City's development. Mr. Miller responded that the Housing Element expresses a <br />genuine commitment to produce housing, and goes beyond the previous Housing Element in <br />some regards. As the City gets into the Land Use and Transportation elements, the Planning <br />