Planning Commission Minutes 2022 07 14

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes July 14, 2022 Page 3 of 8 • The area to be rezoned is rezoning from a commercial land use to a land use that includes residential, and the property owner elects to permanently deed restrict 30% of the new residential units on site as affordable housing. For the purposes of this subsection: • "Rezoning" also includes approval of any amendment under the City's zoning code that would increase the area of a property on which residential uses are allowed or increase the number of residential units, to the extent of such increase. Staff notes that approval of this ordinance does not change the existing Comprehensive Plan and Small Area Plan policies for rezoning of a property to allow residential development. Amendments to the applicable Plan would be required as part of the process. Staff Recommendations: Staff is recommending approval of Resolution 8, Series 2022, recommending approval of the draft ordinance. Commissioner Questions of Staff. Moline says because the GDP already has some residential component, would it only apply to the areas of the GDP that would be re -zoned from commercial? Ritchie says that it applies to the number that is being increased. The increment is subject to the 30% requirement. The existing entitled land areas stay at 12%. Moline asks if this could apply to a geographic area or special areas or would it apply to the numbers as a whole? Ritchie says it may apply to a geographic area. It could also apply if it is only for an allocation of additional residences within an existing, entitled land area. GDP's are always pretty nuanced. Moline asks if we are at risk of reducing the amount of housing that could be proposed for these types of areas. Ritchie says staff would have to do additional local studies to better understand if this would be a barrier. It might be property -to -property specific though. Moline asks if staff can better clarify the timing of the adoption of this. Ritchie say City Council included this on their summer work plan and the housing study is intended to begin late this year. Osterman asks if the local feasibility analysis will be included in the housing study. Ritchie says staff has not developed the entire scope but they hope to include it. Krantz asks if staff knows what the city's capacity is for growth in population. Zuccaro says we do not have a residential cap. Brauneis mentions that the "30% of dwelling units" seems like an undefined number of units. He asked how that is calculated. Do they have to be certain types of houses? Ritchie says that the form and shape of dwelling units can greatly vary. It can be any of the type of units that exist and allowed by code. Brauneis asks who determines the current price of that unit and sold at that price. Ritchie says the city is still developing those procedures. Zuccaro says it is possible that the City will defer to an Intergovernmental Agreement between the city and surrounding jurisdictions to administer portions of the program for the city.