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BAY FAIR TOD SPECIFIC PLAN Housing Mix, Affordability, and Anti - Displacement Housing is envisioned to play an important and increasing role in the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan Area, leveraging the transit -oriented location and existing retail amenities while meeting a critical local and regional need for increased housing supply. The intention of the Specific Plan is to promote a range of housing options and affordability levels to mitigate the risk of displacement for existing residents in and around the Plan Area. New housing envisioned in this Specific Plan is consistent with the goals in the City's Housing Element and General Plan, which project a portion of the City's future residential growth to occur in the Bay Fair area. While the majority of new market and affordable housing units are projected in the General Plan to occur in the City's Downtown TOD area, the proximity to the Bay Fair BART Station and AC Transit bus lines makes the Bay Fair Plan Area well situated for residential development. Affordable housing represents a critical need and priority in the Bay Area, the City and the Plan Area. Due to the undersupply of market rate housing in the region over the last 20 years, market rate housing also represents an important housing need. The City adopted a city-wide Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (Article 30 of the Zoning Code) in 2004 that affects new residential development. The City IZ Ordinance requires new rental or ownership residential development to set aside at least 15% of the total project units for moderate, low and very low income households. The IZ requirements limited opportunity for payment of an in lieu fee for new ownership units of a certain size. However, the Palmer/Sixth Street vs. City of Los Angeles court case in 2009 has rendered inclusionary rental housing requirements invalid for many cities, including San Leandro for several years. The City has ensured progress on constructing new affordable rental housing and meeting its regional housing needs allocations goals (RHNA) through commitment of City affordable housing funding to recent affordable housing developments. BART has adopted an internal goal for its own development projects that at least 20% of new housing units be deed -restricted permanent affordable housing for low (51 %-80% AMI) and very low (<50% AMI) households. There may be opportunities to achieve similar levels of affordable housing in other parts of the Bay Fair Plan area over the 20 year time horizon of Plan implementation. In early 2016, the City began the process of addressing tenant eviction related to landlord caused actions (e.g., new owners imposing significant rent increases, landlord move in, capital improvements) and opportunities for increased rent. The City held public meetings to seek tenant and landlord input on a city- wide tenant relocation assistance program, which will provide evicted tenants with adequate relocation assistance payments to enable them to move and secure new housing. The following housing policies are complemented by implementation actions, incentives, and related programs described in Chapter 7, "Implementation." 72