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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 07191994 - H.4 - Contra r Costa TO: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCYCounty r uh'�cT FROM: Phil Batchelor Executive Director DATE: July 19, 1994 SUBJECT: North Richmond Senior Citizen Housing Development SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS HOLD public hearing and CONSIDER ADOPTION of Replacement Housing Plan for the North Richmond Senior Citizen Housing Development. FISCAL IMPACT None. BA�ROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS On June 14, 1994 the Redevelopment Agency designated specified parcels in the North Richmond Redevelopment Project Area as a site for unified development for a senior citizen housing project. The Agency also authorized the distribution of Request for Development Proposals from prospective master developers of the senior housing project. The Agency would expect to select a master developer and have a Disposition and Development Agreement before the Agency in mid- to late August. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: XX YES SIGNATURE : RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECO N ATION OP-BOARD COMMI EE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE (S) : ACTION OF BOARD ON July 19 , 1994 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED x OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A x UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN AYES: NOES: ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON THE ABSENT: ABSTAIN: MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. Jim Kennedy 646-4076 cc: Community Development County Administrator ATTESTED July 19 , 1994 County Counsel PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF Redevelopment Agency THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS via Redevelopment AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Goldfarb & Lipman Eden Housing CHDC of N. Richmond BY ao 2 DEPUTY Joyce Glatt JK:1h/sra15/nrsrhsg.bos Pursuant to Section 33413 . 5 of the California Health and Safety Code, the Redevelopment Agency must adopt a Replacement Housing Plan not less than 30 days prior to approving a Disposition and Development Agreement. The attached Replacement Housing Plan has been noticed as to its availability for review and comment. The Redevelopment Agency' s replacement housing obligations are stipulated in Section 33413 (a) of the California Health and Safety Code. The Agency is required, whenever units housing low or moderate income persons are destroyed by a redevelopment project with which the Agency is involved, to within four years cause the construction or rehabilitation of an equal number of replacement units which have an equal or greater number of bedrooms as the destroyed units . Seventy five percent (750) of the replacement units must replace destroyed units at the same income level (moderate, lower or very low income) as the destroyed units. The attached Replacement Housing Plan addresses the state law requirements, and is recommended for adoption. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY REPLACEMENT HOUSING PLAN FOR NORTH RICHMOND SENIOR HOUSING PROJECT f CONTRA COSTA COUNTY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY REPLACEMENT HOUSING PLAN FOR THE AREA REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT By Ordinance No. 87-50 dated July 14, 1987, the County of Contra Costa adopted the Redevelopment Plan (the "Plan")for the North Richmond Redevelopment Project Area (the "Project Area"). The Plan provides for the implementation of a program of redevelopment within the Project Area, including a Senior Housing development and related improvements on a block bounded by 2nd, 3rd, Chesley and Grove Streets (the "Project"). The Agency has determined that eight (8) dwelling units housing persons and families of low or moderate income will be removed from the Project Area in implementation of the Project. These eight (8) dwelling units include one (1) one-bedroom unit, four (4) two- bedroom units, two (2) three-bedroom units and one (1) four-bedroom unit, for a total of nineteen (19) bedrooms. Seven (7) of these removed units, including fifteen (15) bedrooms, housed households with incomes at or below 50% of median income for Contra Costa County ("Very Low Income Households") and one (1) unit including four (4) bedrooms housed a household with income at or below 80% of median income ("Lower Income Household"). Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33413(a), the Agency must make available an equal number of replacement dwelling units at affordable housing cost within the Project Area or within the territorial jurisdiction of the Agency within four years of removal of dwelling units housing persons and families of low or moderate income. Health and Safety Code Section 33413(a) requires seventy-five percent (75%) of the replacement dwelling units (and number of bedrooms) to be at affordable housing cost in the same income level of Very Low Income Households, Lower Income Households, and Moderate Income Households, as the persons displaced from these destroyed or removed units. All of the replacement dwelling units will be provided in the Project and will consist of one- bedroom units. Pursuant to this Section 33413(a), at least twelve (12) of the replacement dwelling units are required to be made available at affordable housing cost to Very Low Income Households, and three (3) to Lower Income Households (the "Income Targeting Requirements"). This Replacement Housing Plan has been prepared in fulfillment of the specific requirements of Health and Safety Code Section 33413.5, and outlines the manner in which the Agency proposes to meet its statutory replacement housing obligations with respect to the above-identified eight (8) dwelling units, including nineteen (19) bedrooms. 1. Location of Replacement Housing Units All of the replacement dwellings will be constructed in the Project. The Project is expected to be developed by a housing developer under contract to the Redevelopment Agency and will consist of fifty-two (52) units, including fifty-one (51) one-bedroom units and one (1) two-bedroom unit. The housing developer is to be selected by the Agency in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and the Agency's adopted Rules for Owner Participation and Business Tenant Preference. The housing developer and the Agency will enter into a Disposition and Development Agreement (the "DDA") which specifies the standards, procedures and obligations of the parties for the construction of the Project, including the requirement that at least twenty-three percent (23%) of the dwelling units, or twelve (12 ) one- bedroom units, be made available to Very Low Income Households, and at least six percent (6%) of the dwelling units or three (3) one-bedroom units be made available to Low Income Households for the term of the land use controls of the Plan in partial fulfillment of the Agency's replacement housing obligation. 2. Number of Affordable Housing Units to be Constructed Twenty-nine percent (29%) of the fifty-two (52) residential units to be constructed at the Project, or fifteen (15 ) units, are required to be available at affordable housing cost to Very Low and Lower Income Households. (These units are hereinafter referred to as the "North Richmond Senior Housing Project".) The Agency will meet its Income Targeting Requirements through the construction of these fifteen (15 ) units. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33413(c), the Agencywill require, by recorded covenants enforceable against the housing developer and their successors, that the North Richmond Senior Housing units remain available at affordable housing cost for a period of not less than the duration of the land use controls of the Plan. 3. Financina It is expected that the housing developer will submit for Agency approval a financing plan detailing the specific sources of public financing that will be used to develop the North Richmond Senior Housing Project. Submission and approval of such financing plan is a pre-condition under the DDA to commencement of construction and removal of existing dwelling units from the Project Area. The North Richmond Senior Housing Project is expected to be financed through a combination of public resources, including federal, County and Agency funds. The public sources of financing are anticipated to be sufficient to finance development of the affordable rental units in the North Richmond Senior Housing Project. 4. Article XXXIV Approval Development of the North Richmond Senior Housing Project does not require approval of the voters pursuant to Article XXXIV of the California Constitution. This finding is based on the following analysis. Article XXXIV requires approval of the electorate only when a state public body develops, constructs or acquires a low-rent housing project. In the first instance, the North Richmond Senior Housing Project will not constitute an affordable housing project requiring an Article XXXIV election. The Legislature has enacted the Public Housing Implementation Law (Health and Safety Code Section 37000 et. sea.) to interpret and implement Article XXXIV. Health and Safety Code Section 37001(a)(1) states that the term "affordable housing project" in Article XXXIV does not apply to any development that is privately-owned housing, does not receive any unreimbursed ad valorem property tax exemption, and in which not more than 49% of the dwelling units in the development are occupied by persons of low income. As described above, the North Richmond Senior Housing Project will be developed and owned by a private non-profit developer. It is anticipated that any tax exemption received under the Revenue and Taxation Code Section 214 (f) or (g) will be reimbursed by the State pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code Section 214 (f) or (g). Further, as previously described, no more than 49% of the dwelling units in the North Richmond Senior Housing Project are required by the Agency to be available to Very Low and Lower Income Households. Therefore this development is not currently subject to the provisions of Article XXXIV, as the Agency is not "developing, constructing, or acquiring" an affordable housing project. 5. Timetable The Redevelopment Agency expects to have a DDA in place with the developer by September 1, 1994. The timetable in the DDA gives the Agency a reasonable means to ensure that the requisite number of replacement dwelling units will be available to meet the Agency's timing obligations for replacement of units removed from the Project Area within the requisite four years from removal.. K:Ih sra14/nrsrhsg.p1n