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File Number: 22-475 maximize the City’s existing resources and serve the needs of residents, including: ·Proposed Zoning Code and General Plan amendments to allow increased densities and height maximums in the PDAs. ·Maintaining an inventory of housing opportunity sites and creating a web -based housing development toolkit. ·Promoting the highest allowable densities on properties and providing technical assistance. ·Streamlining the development process and evaluating parking standards, development fees, and other requirements to reduce potential constraints to housing development. ·Reviewing the Zoning Code to encourage a greater mix of dwelling types and sizes in lower-density areas and updating the Zoning Code, as necessary, to accommodate alternative housing types such as housing co -operatives, tiny homes, and collective home ownership models. ·Meeting with labor groups and organizations to discuss ways in which the City can support an adequate supply of labor to build new housing. ·Annually monitoring remaining housing capacity to ensure compliance with the City ’s obligation to affirmatively further fair housing and promote racial /ethnic and economic integration between neighborhoods as much as possible. ·Supporting workforce and moderate -income housing by annually monitoring sites that could be appropriate for moderate -income households, and exploring financing tools that encourage the production of housing appropriate for moderate-income households. ADUs: Various programs specifically target the development of ADUs, including the creation of pre-approved ADU plans and identification of cost saving tools for developers, providing increased education and outreach about ADUs to residents, and monitoring ADU development. Affordable Housing: The Housing Plan prioritizes the preservation and development of housing affordable to City residents, including: ·Evaluating and updating the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance ·Identifying City-owned land for the development of affordable housing ·Leveraging the City ’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF), and Low/Mod Housing Asset Fund to leverage public affordable housing funds ·Conducting a Comprehensive Impact Fee Study and exploring a standardized fee reduction and/or impact fee waiver program for affordable housing projects, and analyzing ADU development impact fees with the goal of reducing, loaning, granting, or waiving those costs in exchange for providing rents affordable to low- or moderate -income households for a set period of time ·Providing developers the ability to acquire and refurbish foreclosed properties and resell them as deed-restricted affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households ·Supporting a local non -profit organization that offers CalHOME funding for loans to lower-income homeowners of housing in need of rehabilitation ·Seeking funding to assist local property owners /managers operating rental housing in need of rehabilitation ·Working with owners of existing affordable housing with expiring affordability covenants that are scheduled for conversion and working with private and non -profit entities to solicit Page 5 City of San Leandro Printed on 7/13/2022