affordability not listed among tier three factors
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else ask questions. Um With regard to the S Dr I guess particularly tier three. Um, I know we've had discussions of the That's where we'd be implementing the inclusionary zoning reforms. W where would I find this? Cause I don't see it listed in her factors for Tierra
three.
So is there another policy that deals with? Define Tier three to
affordability requirements.
Is that one point? It is And
yeah, is there a reason why we can't just put affordability somewhere in the things that you would have to consider to get tier three. I maybe just address number that I'm missing. I don't
Yeah. So the the inclusionary zoning aspect of it. where we would identify the density range itself would happen. the in the flu description that we went over at the last meeting. This is why I brought up the subject of Whether or not S D R should We capped at twelve. Captain 15 or capped at essentially several point nine. And depending on where we want to set that threshold, it's going to Adjust the S DR description. And
at that point it's gonna roll through And we're gonna Uh We're going to update the tier structure that's in S Dr. Policy growth one five two as the other compatibility factors. So Right. If we set that inclusionary zoning threshold at fifteen, let's say. that tier three that I just presented to you as part of One by two. Um the previous policy actually describes It in table growth one.
Twelve to say fifteen. I think I guess
I'm asking a more simple question. Okay, which is If affordability is impactful with getting tiered speech approval Why isn't it in the list of Thanks. I mean you have height restrictions, parking orientation, architectural park articulation. Really form of VCH and buffer. Well regardless of where you land, whether it's twelve I mean, I would think that that the factor that Somebody has to consider to get tier
three. S DR, so why is it why not include it in the list?
When we created this table, we were thinking primarily in terms of design. like the fit the physical manifestation of the project in space and how does that relate to the neighboring projects around it. Um the actual The tier, tier three. would be the tier in which the inclusionary zoning would would be triggered. And that would get handled because of the flu, the way the flu is working is in the description itself. So at fifteen poly units per acre, let's just say. you would need
to provide ten percent uh affordable housing With or yeah. You would get a ten ten percent density bonus with a five percent. uh affordable housing requirement, something like that.
But that would happen in the very easy tier system for some nation.
It would be native to the to the to the fluke. Sure. And those are Incentives
or mandates for any of what you're doing. Well, the the set aside would be a mandate, but it would be automatically impaired with incentives. Sorry, I'm saying that again. The set aside would be a mandate. But it would be automatically paired with incentives.
Because you have to by state law.
You have to offset if if you mandate it, you have to offset the cost of And then Within centers. What is getting a lot?
Okay, then. I guess part of it is um just if
this is sort of a disclosure issue is I I don't If you're gonna embed it in the actual description uh just
I just want to make sure that Sigmatically disclose it as a factor that It's gonna be looked at before you get a tier three.
SDR and it's not end the list currently, but you're saying that's only designed.
Yeah, this table speaking to primarily to design, but Perhaps the If we want to reiterate that in the list of policies, we can
sort of a footnote somewhere. I don't know. It it just I'm not sure it's gonna be obvious to the average person. Like they may just look at this and say, Okay, I to get a tier three, I gotta look at these. Six things. I'm not sure it's going to be obvious to them that that's another thing they're gonna have to it's gonna be considered. Maybe you could put a footnote or a cross reference or something so that it's clear that That's another factor that's going to be looked at for tier three.
From weekends.
Because the next thing is you're not going to look at it for tier one or tier two, right?
I
think somebody should be able to look at the table and somehow know that it's
Mr. Goldstein, what what I was thinking about as you were talking about the inclusion or zoning study and the mandate, maybe we can have a policy under this objective. that is speaking to housing affordability like 1.1.8, which is countywide, but then we can have a specific one that gets inclusion zoning study and then the main date can which is triggered that tier three. So to make it more than a little bit of a
general policy that's not very specific.
Right.
But the the study basically says that the only place we can realistically do this is for multifamily.
Alright,
and it's subject to this being this density. Homes. Yeah. So Which I assume in S D R is basically tier three, right? Tier one and tier two are not interfamily densities.
Is that accurate? And tier two would be a multifamily density insofar as things like Tom Holmes or duplexes or triplexes.
Correct. Yeah, tier three would be the apartment
side. Okay. I just think there needs to be some clue in your table that I don't know whether it's a cross reference to a policy or A footnote or something, but I just
I just um my concern is you're listing six factors here to get a tier three approval. And if that's a factor that needs to be considered for a tier three approval, it's there should be something that Points
people to it.
We can do that.
Dam done sorry.
Yeah.