TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Jennifer Palmer, Director of Housing & Community Services
REPORT BY: Jennifer Palmer, Director of Housing & Community Services
SUBJECT: Public Hearing for Affordable Housing Impact Fees
RECOMMENDATION
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Conduct a public hearing to adopt a resolution accepting the Affordable Housing and Commercial Linkage Nexus Study and updating the affordable housing residential and nonresidential (commercial) impact fees with inclusion of an annual index adjustment. (Fiscal Impact: Unknown Revenue; Affordable Housing Fund; Not Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
To mitigate the impact of development, the County adopted an Affordable Housing Fund Ordinance in 1992, which created the Affordable Housing Fund to assist with funding the development of affordable housing in Napa County. The Ordinance was based on a Jobs-Housing Nexus Study conducted by the County and established a housing impact fee on non- residential construction and an inclusionary housing requirement on residential construction. The non- residential component of the program was updated and revised in 2004 and again in 2014; the residential component was last revised in 2010. The current inclusionary program has an in-lieu fee option available to all new construction and all residential projects have paid the in-lieu fee.
On January 24, 2023, the Napa County Board of Supervisors adopted its 2023 Housing Element Update which contemplates, among other things, modification to the County's existing affordable housing in lieu and commercial housing impact fees. This was necessitated as part of the affordable housing goals, objectives, policies and programs of the County's 2023 Housing Element Update that, among other things, require a new nexus analysis to update inclusionary in lieu and commercial housing impact fees, and to ensure that fees do not exceed the actual affordable housing impacts attributable to development projects to which the fees relate.
In August 202...
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