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File Number: 21-758 Also in 2017, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 2 (SB 2), titled the “Building Homes and Jobs Act,” which specifically established a permanent, on-going source of funding dedicated to promoting and facilitating affordable housing development. On March 28, 2019, HCD released a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) related to SB 2 for approximately $123 million in revenue earmarked for local government planning grants. The purpose of the Planning Grants Program is to provide financial and technical assistance to local governments to update planning documents to: ·Accelerate housing production; ·Streamline the approval of housing development; ·Facilitate housing affordability; ·Promote the development of housing; and ·Ensure geographic equity in the distribution and expenditure of allocated funds. Through the SB2 Planning Grants Program, the State provided grant funding to the City to develop objective design and development standards for multi-family residential and mixed-use development in order to provide greater predictability to developers and community members and help streamline the development review process in accordance with recent changes in state law. The City hired a consultant team led by Miller Planning Associates with support by Urban Field Studio and Lexington Planning to assist with this effort. Input from the community is a key element in crafting updated standards that reflect San Leandro’s values and design preferences. To date, the project has involved three distinct phases: Analysis and Assessment, Options Exploration, and Preparation of Draft Standards. The initial Analysis and Assessment Phase included: ·Stakeholder Interviews ·Evaluation of development constraints ·Survey #1 - Community design preference survey - an on-line survey available from October 21, 2020 through November 16, 2020 consisting of multiple choice, ranked preference, and open-ended questions aimed at understanding design preferences and key influences that form impressions of quality design. 109 responses were received. ·Workshop #1 - a live, on-line interactive workshop held on October 21, 2020 via Zoom to understand the community’s design preferences and key influences that form their impression of quality design. 21 people participated in the workshop, which began with a presentation providing an introduction to the project. Following the presentation, participants were placed into one of four ‘breakout rooms’ where they were asked to conduct ‘design review’ on examples of townhome, apartment, and mixed-use development. For each type of development, participants were asked what they liked and didn’t like about the examples and if the project would be appropriate in San Leandro. Participant feedback was recorded on 'boards' showing example projects. ·Testing of current design and development regulations. ·Project documents: Development Constraints Memo, summaries of visual preference workshop and survey results, and Site Test Analysis to evaluate current development Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 12/30/2021 20