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  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:53:15Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Several speakers Unidentified A: definition Girardi: of Unidentified A: affordable What's affordable housing?

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:58:10Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Several speakers Unidentified A: for an affordable unit. I'm not getting at for subsidized housing. I mean for all housing. That's why the housing is not affordable.

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning2:00:56Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Girardi So I think you made that you got that message to staff earlier. Gotcha. I think they would look at maybe doing some general policy about supporting initiatives that on affordable housing on the changes to affordability code that would assist with affordable housing affordability. Housing something to that.

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:56:08Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Several speakers Yes. You you are. What doesn't make sense is the term affordable. What what that really is is income restricted and or subsidized. housing, the point that I'm getting to And I find this interesting. is that when we want housing to be affordable, we're all concerned that the cost of housing is not affordable to most of our residents. We're looking at things like the way we make 'em affordable is exactly to the point I made earlier this morning. Well you need density increases, we need to find ways to reduce costs. Here you want to cut out reduced impact fee, mobilities, permit fees. We need to be careful when we make land development code amendments that we're not drop Driving up the cost unnecessarily. I I recognize that we need to have development that pays for itself. But maybe we need to be

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:53:38Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Several speakers Unidentified A: But wh I where I What I'm trying to get at is when you say the term affordable housing, you mean housing which is income restricted.

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:53:52Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Girardi Yes and no. Okay, so and I just had this conversation with community development. Yesterday. So generally yes. You would talk about the Affordable housing is housing that is income that it's got to be income qualified to get into it. And then it's also restricted for a period of time where they can't resell it or re-rent it to somebody who's not making a similar lower income. However In discussing with human development yesterday, they they want to start counting housing that meets part one but not part two. So for example, if we give down payment assistance to somebody who does meet these income levels, they're they're below eighty percent AMI, they meet the income levels and it's a price point that it it's affordable to that income level, but it's not necessarily restricted to stay that way for the next thirty years. in the developments position is that's still affordable to the person who lives in it for as

  • Feb 11, 2025Board1:58:16Board reports
    Committee reports and Live Local discussion

    Several speakers Oakley: But as a county and for all our citizens, we do need to look at affordable housing and affordable apartments when we can. I think

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:53:20Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Girardi Well that was my earlier comment. Yeah. I think we need a better and if you remember I made a comment earlier that they need to effectively create a definition that's based on our actual deficits of affordable housing and then make that a defined term affordable housing.

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning2:12:12Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Several speakers Since David's done, just one quick clarification. I don't know that I don't think there's anything necessarily that needs to be addressed, but as it ties back to affordable housing 1.2.4 and 1.2.7, that the resolution for the tree ordinance, it removed the reduction. For the tree mitigation for affordable housing. Just want to make sure that's not in conflict with any of these incentives or things we're trying to do to assist affordable housing and lower costs, because we actually went the other way with the tree mitigation resolution, correct?

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:59:17Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Several speakers Housing is not made affordable because I take taxes from you and give it to somebody else. Okay, that doesn't make housing affordable, that's socialism. Alright, that's what that is. What I want to do is address the housing affordability problem What costs money is streets and sidewalks and stormwater and utilities and I'm not saying we don't need these things, but maybe we need to look at the level at which we provide these things and or require these things because they cost a lot of money. We need to look at the Florida Building Code. I made the point this morning we're requiring impact resistant windows inland, way away from the coast where I'm not gonna get a hundred and fifty mile an hour winds blowing two by fours through my windows, that drives up the cost of housing.

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning1:59:05Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Girardi It wouldn't be affordable. You take a ten million dollar home and you reduce it by twenty thousand dollars, it's not affordable to anybody still. Except for somebody who can afford a ten million dollar home.

  • Aug 7, 2025Planning2:12:46Staff report
    Pasco Lives housing element

    Several speakers Girardi: Well it's it probably did did, but then it also doesn't it have a provision where we can provide some of the funds to affordable housing.