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AP-75 Barriers to affordable housing -91.420, 91.220(j) Introduction The City of San Leandro is a California Charter City that is required to examine governmental and non- governmental barriers that unduly burden residential housing development. This analysis, the 2015- 2023 Housing Element of the San Leandro General Plan, can be found at the following website: https://www.sanleandro.org/depts/cd/housing/he/default.asp The City’s Housing Element identifies a number of measures that are intended to facilitate and encourage affordable housing through specific planning efforts, the review of existing zoning, and supporting development standards that collectively are designed to encourage development of all forms of residential development. Actions it planned to remove or ameliorate the negative effects of public policies that serve as barriers to affordable housing such as land use controls, tax policies affecting land, zoning ordinances, building codes, fees and charges, growth limitations, and policies affecting the return on residential investment The California Government Code requires the Housing Element to contain “a statement of goals, quantified objectives, and policies relative to the maintenance, preservation, improvement, and development of housing” (Section 65583(b)(1)). Chapter 6 of the 2015-2023 Housing Element of the San Leandro General Plan fulfills that requirement. It builds upon the information presented in previous chapter of the same document that is intended to provide direction on key housing issues in the City of San Leandro. The Housing Element’s nine goals define the major topic areas covered. These are: New Housing Opportunities, Affordable Housing Development, Administration of Housing Programs, Home Ownership, Affordable Housing Conservation, Healthy Homes and Sustainable Neighborhoods, Special Needs Populations, Elimination of Housing Constraints, and Fair Housing. Each of the Housing Element’s above-noted goals is accompanied by policies and action programs. The policies are intended to guide day-to-day decisions on housing, while the actions identify the specific steps the City of San Leandro will take after the Housing Element is adopted. Annual Action Plan 35 2019 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)