Local Housing Incentive Plan - Evaluation and Recommendations Report - Affordable Housing Advisory Committee - State Housing Initiatives Partnership, CSFA No. 92.501 - No Funding Required

1:03:09Okay, move on to R72.

1:03:15So our next item is on the committee that uh Commissioner Starkey. It was on the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee and this is our report uh to the Board of County Commissioners. And these are the uh incentives. So on the next slide, uh it talks about the responsibilities of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, and that's the AHAC. And their responsibility is to uh present a report to you and the Florida

1:03:45Housing Finance Corporation that includes recommendations on listed affordable housing incentives. That are in the Florida statutes. And we review the county's plans, policies, and procedures, ordinances, regulations, statutes, and comprehensive plan, among other documents applicable to affordable housing for the evaluation of their impacts on affordable housing projects. So they met this year in the spring, and on the next

1:04:15slide. They looked at the following incentive strategies. And again, these are all by law. And I will go through each of them and say whether or not it's in place or whether or not we're recommending it. So expedited permitting for affordable housing is already in place. The modification of impact fee, you all waived mobility fees last year. or affordable housing, so that's in place. The allowance of flexibility in densities

1:04:46for affordable housing, and you will see that there are several recommendations that we are making that during the time that the land development code is look being looked at in the comprehensive plan for a rewrite, we're actually just bringing these items to the attention to look at it at this. time. So the allowance of flexibility and densities uh be looked at uh while they're looking at the rewrite of the LDC.

1:05:18Reservation of infrastructure capacity is currently adequate and in place. Parking and setback requirements again looking to see that those would be optimized for affordable housing projects in a rewrite. the affordable accessory residential uh dwelling units, otherwise known as ADUs, again support the modification of the Land Development Code to incentivize affordable ADUs in residential

1:05:48areas. The incentives Continue on the next slide.

1:05:55Flexible lot configurations, again, when the Land Development Code rewrite comes in to look at flexible lot configurations. Modification of street requirements, there does not need to be any changes there. Process of ongoing review that is currently in place and there needs to be no changes there. A public land inventory, and that is in place, but we are recommending mapping the public lands

1:06:26being available. So those on the final slide, although we did not need to look at inclusionary zoning, the committee did uh have a couple of discussions on inclusionary zoning, and we uh also are recommending that the county investigate ways to incentivize inclusionary developments. So that would mean developments that would have housing for different

1:06:56income levels by offering density bonuses, tax credit options, or other incentives. So in conclusion, on the last slide, uh we uh are very grateful for ordinance twenty seventeen which waived the mobility fees. So thank you to the Board of County Commissioners for that. And we also are mentioning that in past years affordable housing requirements have started in

1:07:26MPUDs, but then they've been removed. And we're we'd like to look at ways to incentivize keeping those affordable housing requirements in the MPUD. And then finally again with With the land development rewrite in progress, we really want to use that opportunity to look at these policies, these other incentive strategies to see if they could apply while the land development code is being rewritten.

1:07:57Finally, with along with community development, I just want to also thank Planning and Development for their. collaboration with this incentive program and thank you Commissioner Starkey for your service.

1:08:13So uh the the um What we are looking for is a recommendation to approve the incentive strategies.

1:08:24Uh I'll

1:08:25make that motion.

1:08:26Okay. Got a motion. Second. And a second.

1:08:28And and I I wanted to bring up um one of the items that we discussed w which is the parking. And a perfect example, and I don't remember the name of it, is the the building that was built across from the wrap house. Um that is a housing Spear Village. Spear Village, I guess named after Linda Spear. N there has never been a car there. And I I thought maybe they never opened up or something happened, but they told me I think there's eight units in there. Six. Six units. But

1:08:59nobody in there can drive. Because they all have Develop Developmental

1:09:04Disability.

1:09:05Developmental Disability. So now they're gonna build another building and our code would require them to double or triple the parking lot that will have no cars in it. So in cases like that, you know, we really we really don't need need a humongous parking lot. So this will uh you know address some of that, right?

1:09:23Yeah. Do they utilize all the PC P T transit services to get to and from their doctor's appointments in that facility or in the paratransit.

1:09:32Mm-hmm. Yeah.

1:09:33Yeah.

1:09:34I mean they need to have some parking 'cause caregivers come and family comes, but they don't need one point nine parking lots per unit in a weight. So also um on the um surplus lands we've asked this we're asking the school district also to um and any other entity that owns public lands in the county for for their list as well and so that we can see where there might be some surplus lands that we can put some housing.

1:10:05It's always been my view that um and I think the industry's kind of or the I don't want to call it an industry but I think you see, for example, like in Tampa, to have large areas of challenged, economically challenged people is not a good idea. It's better to have small areas interspersed all throughout the community. Um and it used to be when you had a DRI that ten percent had to be uh at

1:10:35a lower price point than the rest. the community and then when they got rid of DRIs they got rid of that and so then now no one's building no no one builds those kind of communities and sometimes it's it's maybe just a smaller place um which doesn't you know people retire they don't have the salaries anymore but they want to live in the same community um so it could be your grandparents you know it's it doesn't mean that someone's on Section 8 Balitur. So we just need to have a big mix of everything to be healthy.

1:11:06Any other discussion?

1:11:07Do we s are there still seventy seven vouchers for children that age out of foster care and are they being utilized which would provide their rental assistance until they're twenty six years old?

1:11:19I I am not familiar with the uh exact amount. But

1:11:23there are multi there's many vouchers that are unused, so how are we planning to help kids that have aged out of the foster program to start being able to live independently, become a

1:11:36So the project that Commissioner Starkey was just talking about, that uh those fifty units which has not yet come before the board, uh, those fifty units will be used for uh youth aging out of foster care um and previously homeless people.

1:11:53But they should still be able to live where they want, not in one facility. So I would like to see more public awareness on the funds out there for those

1:12:05kids that are for our youth. So the housing vouchers all run through the um Pasco County Housing Authority and I'll be happy to get you more information about that. Thank you.

1:12:16Okay, I got a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. All right. Aye. The motion passed 5-0.

1:12:26Thank you.