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now 402. And we will be starting our meeting, seeing a quorum. MADAM City Clerk me please call the roll. Thank you, Mayor Councilmember Rogers Councilmember Okrepkie is absent today. Councilmember MacDonald here. >> Councilmember Fleming here, France. Mayor Vice mayor stop there. MAY Rogers PRESIDENT Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Councilmember Okrepkie. We have no announcements today. No study session and no proclamations. So moving on to item 8, which our staff briefings and I'll hand it over to assistant city manager Dustin. >> Thank you, MADAM Mayor. And I believe that on a Horton r community engagement manager will be providing a community empowerment update. >> Good afternoon. Mayor Vice mayor city Council community engagement manager with a communications and intergovernmental relations office and that would be presenting the community Empowerment Plan. Update. On NOVEMBER 18 to Senator Joseph. I department will be conducting atk community helpers presentation. Kiwanis being summoned 3 school. 21 21 Moraga Drive from 10 to 11:00am. Number 11. 29, the sentinels of fire Department be participating in the annual Tree lighting ceremony Courthouse Square 600th street from 04:00pm to 07:00pm Center close would be in with lights and sirens. On DECEMBER. 3rd, the Santa Rosa Fire Department will be participating in the Senate rules. A junior college ems Day at public Safety Training center. 5, 7, 4.30, Skyline Boulevard from 12 to one 30 pm. On DECEMBER 5th. The Violence Prevention

Partnership will be hosting awareness presentation for parents and Montgomery High School 12, 50 happened right at 06:00pm. The presentation we preceded by community resource. Open to all members of the public. On DECEMBER say 7th and 8th. The 49th annual 10 MAY hold. Decaf care will take place at Philly Center 2060 West College Avenue from 10:00am to 04:00pm. The fair will feature over 90 local artists. The Support Police Department is hosting holiday toy drive to benefit Catholic Charities running through DECEMBER. 15th. Additional details will be shared early next week on the Senate rules as Police Department website and social media ages. Please stay tuned for more information on how to help spread holiday cheer to those in need. Finally, last month, the city hosted several so sick. So Halloween events. We some great costumes and smiles bringing together over 3,700 participants in handing out more than 100 bags of candy and special treats. That concludes the community apartment by an update for NOVEMBER. Thank you. Thank you. And look at council to see if there any questions. >> Seeing none. MADAM City Clerk me, please facilitate public comment. Thank you. We are now taking public comments on item 8.1. If you were in the chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You'll have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. Mayor mc no one approached the podium for public comment. Ok? Thank very

much The update. Moving on to item 9, our city manager and city attorney report. And we will begin with assistant city manager Dunston. >> Thank you, MADAM Mayor. It is with a heavy heart that I communicate to this body and to the community, the passing of one of our very own Detective Ron Andrews, 20 year veteran of the Santa Rosa Police Department. We learned of his passing earlier today understanding is that he passed on Sunday. And Vaughn was a his wit. His humor is what many remember him by? If you're amenable, we would humbly request that we adjourn this meeting, Detective Andrews memory. >> MADAM City, Attorney. Thank you, MADAM Mayor Councilmembers. I have no report this evening. Thank with that, MADAM City Clerk me please facilitate public comment on this item. Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 9. If you're in the chamber like to provide comment but have not yet provided a speaker card. Please make your way to the podium. >> You have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. Mayor mc no one approached the public or the podiums for public comment. Thank you. Moving on to item 10 statements of abstention by council members. >> Councilmember over us. >> Let's say you I mean the same from item, 16.1, the tobacco issue I'm involved in the cannabis industry and and has the potential to involve cannabis policy. >> Thank you. Are there any additional abstentions? >> Seeing none. Seeing none. We'll move to mayor and council member reports. Any

report this. Vice mayor is that? >> On aug on act. OCTOBER 24th there was a joint meeting of the Sonoma County Egg and open Space Financial Oversight Commission and the Advisory Committee. I am this board's representative to the advisory committee. The purpose of the meeting was to review county spaces meant the county spaces matching grant program. And I'm pleased to report that both the advisory board and the Oversight Commission voted to provide funding for center, which is called in Creek Community Park. And Tom Tom School, fun soccer fields. So some some nice amenities coming into our community. Thanks Nice. Many recommended to come into the community. Thanks to it open Thank you, Mayor. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers. >> I just really quick wanted to say a couple of words about the election on Tuesday. First and foremost, I want to thank the public for Ian Ff, as I was saying today and the Economic Development subcommittee meeting. It is a show of support for the city for folks, whatever we change our tax policy to better provide services. I just want to recognize that right off the top. >> The other I'm going to quote, Yogi Berra, but it's deja vu all over again. When I got elected in 2016. >> It was at the same time as Donald Trump getting elected and the same conversations that I'm having with my neighbors that I had with them, then I'm having with them now largely around. What is the city going to do to

protect our community? What are we going to do with some of the threats that he's made that he follows through on? And I really just wanted to put out a message of hope for folks that when we went through this in 2016, the first thing that the council did was are in the visible city ordinance that made it very clear that we are going to protect community members. What whether it was lgbtq weather was women. Weather was immigrants that we believed in the philosophy that having a community that could trust its government can trust its police officers would better serve our community than one that was divisive. That resolution is still in place. Some of the things that we've done since them are are still in place. We still find legal aid and we still find our eviction defense funds to make sure that folks have due process rights. We don't entirely know what's going to happen. We don't know entirely what's been rhetoric and what the federal government is going to try to do. But I thought it was really important for us. He's come out the gates and just tell people we will still protect you. We do still want our community to thrive. And that Indivisible City ordinance is still in place. So if you have questions, please feel free to reach out. Please make sure that you're talking to us about your stories about your concerns. We're all going to be it together. So thank you. >> Thank you. Councilmember MacDonald. >> Thank you, mayor. Just a couple things to report out on tonight. First, am resident remiss in not stating that I will be recusing from item 13.6 on the consent agenda due to a personal relationship and then just for my report. Boy Scout troop one. 21, I want to

thank them for inviting me to come to their meeting and speak about civic engagement and they had a really great questions. They were very engaged on a subject that I would have probably thought was super boring when I was 12 or 13 years old. So I just want to say thank you to them. And I want to thank the mayor for commissioners luncheon at the last couple weeks ago and for hosting all of our volunteers who sit on or commissions and committees and do a lot of the hard work to help us make the best decisions for the city. So thank you, mayor, for hosting that. And thank you to all those who are able to attend. That's it. >> So I wanted to make an announcement that the center is a city council is seeking volunteers interested in serving on many boards, multiple boards had the current vacancies and will have additional vacancies in DECEMBER. Because that is what a lot of board terms and for an application or more information. Visit the city's website at as our city Dot org. That's Ford's applicants must be residents and registered to vote in the city of Santa Rosa. And just to name a couple, we have a community advisory board Board of Building Regulation and appeals. And so I would like everyone to go look, just even out of curiosity. You MAY know someone that knows someone that would like to volunteer. In addition, I would like to think Girl Scout troops collective who invited me up to speak about government and my experience with government.

And they asked a lot of wonderful questions on OCTOBER 30th. I was able to attend the Sonoma County Mayor's Committee awards. They recognize businesses and the community which support the employment of people with disabilities. This year. The Santa Rosa City bus received an award for best practices in community employment. Advocacy. Congratulations to the city best department and thank you for serving those that are in need. Yesterday. I was able to attain in participate in the Veteran's Day flag-raising, which is held here at City Hall. Thank you to Santa Rosa Police honor guard Santa Rosa facility and maintenance Staff Express Co sos Coffee who donated coffee for veterans and all who attended. And Madonna feather crews for the land acknowledgement. Thank you to Vice mayor step Councilmember Alvarez who attended and participated. To honor veterans. I was also able to participate in the Veteran's Day Food Drive yesterday. Thank you to everyone, veterans, community members, everyone. They came out so it is not official and I have not got no word. But I think Army one. So for those of you that are rooting for the Army, I think the branch Army branch, So thank you to the Redwood, a Redwood Empire Food Bank for partnering with myself and local veterans to pull off the

food drive. And thank you to all that currently serve and have served for your sacrifices, your courage and your and wavering commitment to serving our country. And I believe that is all I have. And with that, I will pass it on to Mountain City clerk. >> Thank you. We are now taking public comments on item 11. If you are in the chamber and would like to provide comment but have not yet provided a speaker card. >> Where your name please make your way to the podium. You will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer. Well, at the end of that period. And approach the podium for public comment on item 11. >> Thank you. Moving on to item 2011.1 mayor appointments to county regional and state positions. I would like to make an appointment for Sean Car as the alternate member to 0 a Sonoma and request council approval on this selection. And before I look for a motion, I will take public comment on this item. Thank you. If you'd like to provide public comment on item 2011.1. Please make your way to the podium. >> Mayor, I'm not seeing anyone approach the podium on this item. Thank you. Are there any questions or comments from council? And seeing none? >> Vice mayor the motion. Please. >> Absolutely. I move that. We approve Sean Caron, 2 as they all turned over to the 0 Waste month. >> Have a motion made by Vice mayor step in a second by Councilmember MacDonald. And with that MADAM City clerk me, please call the vote. Thank you. Mayor Councilmember Rogers, I Councilmember Okrepkie is absent councilmember MacDonald, I Councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember Alvarez. I vice mayor stop. All right. Mayor

Rogers, I let the record show this past of the 6 affirmative votes. Thank you. Moving on to item 11.2 point to prove a board member leave of absence. The Housing Authority Commissioner Wayne Downey requested a leave of absence from OCTOBER 7th, 2024 through DECEMBER 2024. Purdue Council policy 0, 0 Dash, 0, 6, appointments to the boards. Commissions Committees section j 3. The council MAY grant an approved leave of absence in the council MAY appoint a temporary person to fill the position. It is recommended by the Housing Authority executive director and the city clerk that the council by motion approved a leave of absence for Commissioner Downey through the end of DECEMBER 2024. And approve a temporary person to fill the position upon completion of interviews of those applications on file for the housing authority to build a c throughout the term of the leave of absence. I will look to council to see if there any questions regarding this. Seeing none. MADAM City you please. What a public comment. Thank you. If you would like to provide public comment on item 2011.2, please make your way to the podium. >> If you haven't submitted a speaker card or your name, please make your way to put now. Mayor mc no one approached the podium on 2011.2. Thank you all look to vice mayor for motion. >> I move that we approve the leave of absence for Housing Authority Commissioner Downey through the end of DECEMBER 2024. Second. >> Have a motion made by Vice mayor step in a second by Councilmember MacDonald. MADAM

City Clerk me please call thank you, Mayor. One moment. It's a moving fast today. Councilmember Rogers, I cookie is absent councilmember MacDonald. I councilmember Fleming Councilmember as our vice Mayor step. Mayor Rogers, I let the record show this passes. The 6 affirmative votes. Thank you. Moving on to item told approval minutes we have set of minutes for OCTOBER 22nd 2024, which was a regular meeting. >> Counselor there any corrections to the minutes. Seeing none. MADAM City clerk and police facilitate public comment on this item. Thank you. We are now taking public comment on it. A 12.1. If you're in the chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. >> See no one wishing to provide public comment on Thank you. Will adopt 12.1 as presented. Moving on to item 13 consent items. MADAM City clerk, can you please read the consent items? >> Thank you, Mayor item 13.1 motion authority to issue design build request for proposals for energy, conservation and efficiency improvements. Item 13.2 resolution approval of Second Amendment to blanket purchase order 1, 6, 6, 1, 4, 9, for the purchase of automotive parts and supplies. Item 13.3 resolution authorization to file applications for federal transit. Administration formula funds and surface transportation program funds for fiscal year 2025. In fiscal year 2026. Item 13.4. Resolution, Second Amendment to professional services agreement. Number f 0, 0, 2, 4, 1, 9, 8, with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa for the in Response

program. Item 13.5 resolution amendment to the city's classification in salary plan, creating the classification of technical services manager and adding to fte. Eliminating one technical services division manager, one community services officer and one senior administrative assistant and item 13.6 resolution amendment to the blanket purchase order 1, 6, 4, 0, 4, 9, 2, increased compensation with Jet Mulch incorporated. Thank you council. Are there any questions? >> Regarding the consent items? Seeing none. MADAM City clerk me please facilitate public comment on this item. Thank you. Mary are now taking public comments on the consent calendar items. 13.1 through 13.6. >> If you're in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. The first public speaker will be Gregory. Please go ahead. Thank you. This is on. Yes, okay. >> Thank you very Assistant city manager Duncan in the city attorney and mayor and members of the council. My name is Gregory Fair. And I'm here today to talk about or at least ask a couple of questions about 13.4. Your in response extension of their contract to 2029. 4 million dollars understand it. But when I went to look at the background material, it was in 2022. Contract with absolutely no scope of work seems what you're trying to do is to give in response 5 more years of funding. But you mentioned

that your sources of funding are arpa which is going to run out in 2 years and as you probably know, I'm on the Oversight Committee and on the Behavioral Health Board as of JANUARY, the Behavioral Health Board is going to be charged with putting a three-year plan together for all of the money and the health department. It's about 100 million dollars a year. We're here. We're going take that seriously. And creating an integrated set of plans for all the individual funding sources. We're going to be using a pretty tough lands about outcomes and objectives, the kind scopes of work that should be. But pine, this item. I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem like you're really looking what this is supposed to do and how well it's doing it. I'm being told by our staff for the health Department who also fund similar county wide program that they're going to try and get some data to give us some outcomes to what the performance measures are and how well they're doing it. If we're to put together a series of plans for 3 years using opioid settlement realignment. I mean, that's a lot of money in our pockets that we're going to be trying to give out and we'll do it as correctly and is not efficiently and as effectively as possible. But I guess I'm here today to say that if we were given what you've got in front of you as scope of work, I'm not sure you'd get any money from us. Attention to the fact that we're going to be looking at with rigor all of the funds that come out of the health

department and we're going to try and break some silos and create some really interesting new program designs. I want you to be competitive, but what you've got in front of you doesn't look very competitive at all. It doesn't look like you're asking the right questions about the performance of in response. >> Thank you, Mary c no one else approaching the podium for comments on the consent calendar. Thank you. Vice Mayor staff. Would anyone like to? They couldn't comment seeing Vice Mayor step. >> do this. And in 2 rounds because of councilmember MacDonald's abstention. So first I move that we approve items. 13.1 through 13.5 and wait for the reading the text. >> a motion made by Vice Mayor Stephen a second by Councilmember MacDonald. MADAM City Clerk. MAY you please facilitate that? The thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I Cookie is absent councilmember MacDonald. I councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember Alvarez. Vice Mayor step. I Mayor Rogers, let the record show items. 13.1 through 13.5 approved with 6 affirmative vote 6 approve at 6 affirmative votes. >> And for the second round, I move that we approve item 13.6 and wait for the reading the text. >> Have a motion made by Vice mayor step in a second by Councilmember Rogers. And with that, MADAM City clerk replace facilitate the vote. Councilmember Rogers, I crypt at a cookie is absent. Councilmember MacDonald has

recused. Councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Alvarez. I count Vice Mayor step. I Mayor Rogers. Let the record show this passes with. 5 affirmative votes. Thank you. It is not yet time for our first public comments. So we will be moving on to item 15.1. >> And I'll hand it over to assist it. City manager Dan stunned. >> Thank you, MADAM Mayor. I don't 15.1 report item the approval of a rate increase of 3.4% for residents of the city of Santa Rosa who utilize Recology Santa Rosa Ecology, Sonoma Marin, effective JANUARY one 2025. And I will turn your attention to our public works. And Transportation director Dan Hennessey. Good afternoon. Mayor Council. >> I thank you for the opportunity to be Very quick briefing on Recology has proposed rates for next year calendar year 2025. Per our agreed contract that they get to reset their rates every few years and the in-between years they're allowed to essentially make an inflationary adjustment. This is 2 review that adjustment with you and note the outreach that's occurring to let community members now present in the It's 3.5% what college proposed. That effectively is about a $1.10 to a $1.40 per month for most residential customers. Customers are typically build on a quarterly cycle. So the average bill will go up between 3 and $4 per quarter for residences. This was based Bryce cost increase is related to waste management. But compared to

the consumer price index over the same time, that was 3.3% so we will be notifying people through the city connections newsletter in the coming weeks to let them now. Recology has also been including this on the last bill that people are have been getting or will be getting as part of this quarter to let them know of the rate changes starting next year. So it is required that the council authorizes the increase per our contract. And so we are recommending that you do so today, but happy to answer any questions. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Stricter Hennessey. Look at council to see if there any questions we'll start with councilmember planning. Thank you, Dan. I'm just curious what the 5 year do you have a table? The 5 year rate increases or at least the rate increases the past few years? i know that last year was just over 4% in the previous year was between was I think just under 4%. I have look at notes to go back farther than that. But the last couple years, it it's typically an inflationary adjustment. >> Okay. Which is it tied to any particular cpi? Yeah. So there's forget the academics are I? That is a basically a cpi calculation, but tailored to waste management industry. So there's about 8 metrics that are used. >> That come up with this. It's an industry standard and it's also calibrated to your regional area. So this is consistent with what the rest of Sonoma County seeing what Marin County is seeing. Napa County also. Okay. Thank >> And there any additional questions? And with that, MADAM Sake, let me please facilitate public comment. Thank you. Mary are now taking

public comment on item 15.1. If you are in the council chamber and would like to provide comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. Mayor mc no one approached the podium for public comment. Thank you. Bring it back to council to see if there are any additional comments or questions seeing none Councilmember please have a motion. >> America's war recommendation and emotion. Whatever you have to say. Things that in a personal thank Recommended by the Transportation and Public Works Department. The council motion approve of people for injuries. The city of Santa Rosa customers because the summer and effective first 2025. >> Motion made by Councilmember Alvarez and a seconded by Vice Mayor. Stop. City clerk mean please call the vote. Thank you. Councilmember Rogers kept his absent councilmember MacDonald, I councilmember Fleming, I Councilmember Vice Mayor stop. I Mayor Rogers, let the record show this pass of the 6 affirmative votes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Stricter in the city. Assistant city manager Dunston 15.2. Thank you, MADAM Mayor. Item 15.2 is a report item affordable housing capital facilities. Pilot program and our director of planning and economic development gave Osborne will be providing the presentation. >> Good afternoon, Mayor vice mayor members of the council, thank you so much for the opportunity to be here today. My name is Gabe Osburn,

director of planning and economic development. >> And as mentioned in the introduction, the item for the council at this point in time is a pilot program for a capital facilities. Few waiver specific to affordable housing. Today's item is a follow-up from a study session that was conducted with the council on APRIL 9th of 2024, that study session was in response to requests from the community too. Look at potential waivers for impact fees and potentially right size or modified impact fees to track with the size of the unit. During that study session, staff provided an overview of our impact fees, very specific to parks in capital facilities. I will use eff quite a bit in the presentation, which is an acronym for capital facilities. Fees during that study session, there was guidance provided by the council to explore options for waivers, specific to for capital facilities. Fees and specific for certain affordable housing types. So just a really quick background on our development. Impact fees soar capital facility. Fees are defined under a nexus fee study that was conducted on MAY 22nd of 2018. The purpose that fee studies to identify the infrastructure improvements that capital excuse me, that private development is required to pay a proportionate share those capital facilities are typical to growth. So as development comes in, it triggers a growth in the pace, a proportionate share of that need. So the study updated the nexus analysis and the nexus piece is really the relationship between the impact that the development creates the improvements needed to

mitigate that impact. So it also pray creates program guidance on the use of cff. So determines broad project categories and percentages for this eff revenue that's brought in and also maintains a nexus approach for developing and maintaining a levels of service and then as growth comes in the study actually identifies projects that maintain that level of service as growth continues throughout the city. So the fees can be adopted up to a maximized maximum and justified amount which the study identifies and then it becomes a policy determination of the council to set that fee lower than the maximum justify them out. So the current slide shows the cff fun categories. So what you see is that roadway and intersections are roughly around 63% of the cff transit bicycle and pedestrian is around 11 public safety is 13% and storm drain facilities are also 13 and then one percent can be used on ministration. It's very specific to capital projects only. So these are specific infrastructure facility, types and there for upgrade or expansion of those facility types once again, it's it's the impact that growth creates. Oftentimes we use this fee is a developer a developer MAY build infrastructure that's above and beyond their impact in their eligible for reimbursement out of this program. And then once again, the fee actually can cover fee administration and that can include any management of fee as well as doing few studies. So the few different legislation pieces have come down that affected the fees of the most that's heavily discussed in probably the most recent will is Assembly Bill

602, that was generated in JANUARY one of 20 year. Excuse me before that. But it put actions forward for JANUARY one 2022. Local agencies conducting an impact fee study must follow specific standards and that assembly bill lays out those standards. So it for states that an impact fee must be adopted. That's really stating that you have to do with the study. The city must identify and justify the level of service that you're trying to maintain in the city. And that piece that the developer is impacting as part of that studies adopted after Jalil JULY one 2022 must calculate housing development, Pete fees proportionate to the square footage. And this was really a big change. Oftentimes the studies prior to this action would have what's recommit commonly referred to as a Kurd or feet. So a single-family unit of 900 square feet pays the same fee as a single-family unit of 2200 square feet. And then this looks at actually sliding that fee based on square footage or some other impacts such as bedrooms, the control, the actual impact. It says that study should be updated every 8 years from the period beginning on JANUARY one 2022. So it's important to note the city is compliant with a b 602, if we as we move forward with a new study, that study must be compliant with the requirements of ab 602. We've also had the courts deal with some issues recently regarding impact fees. The one most commonly discussed this Sheetz first, county of El Dorado and that particular case it was a complaint filed against an individual that was required to pay a roadway feet. That was much higher than the

impact that the property owner perceived on the infrastructure. So in APRIL of 2024, the United States Supreme Court basically stated that local jurisdictions must demonstrate a nexus between the proposed development and the impact. So really important to understand what that unit impact it has on the infrastructure that the city is accepting that fee from. So this really is rough proportionality to the development's impact. So important to note, although not part of the the action by council tonight is Steph will be prioritizing the impact fee next to its. We've we've gone a significant amount of time under the current study. There have been things that have changed. So as we go through that process that will live with a b 602, that will identify any proportionality issues that exists with our existing fema model. It's also opportunity if there's desire to waive or reduce fees that will be embedded in that process as we move forward, that it does involve multiple departments. We would bring in parks and we would bring in transit. Haitian public works folks to go through that and generally because of the staff impact, it has a long road associated with it. So we typically anticipated two-year process. But we are focusing on that and that will be moving forward. So today's item really is focusing on how we affect affordable housing's package during this period from today, potentially to the time in which we adopt the study. And in this particular case, we are really focusing on deed restricted, affordable housing. So that's affordable housing that's typically deed restricted for 50. I've five-year period to maintain as affordable housing and the number of affordable units. We really focus on the state process. That is the regional housing needs allocation.

Commonly referred to as reena. That process has existed since the late 60's. And that is really where the state of California identifies the individual units that each jurisdiction much must produce. And that typically happens on arena cycle. That's 8 year cycle. So it lays out specific unit types in the various affordability categories and states a number. So that's the goal that we're trying to achieve. And the reallocation really falls. And when it comes to affordable housing to for affordable levels, we have very low, which is 0 to 50% of am I in eyes area, median income. That also includes some extremely low categories that are embedded in that as well. We have low, which is 50 to 80% of am I and we have moderate which is 80 to one 20 and we have above moder which is one 20 or more typically referred to as market rate housing. And we are currently in our 2023 to 2031 Reena cycle and we've come out of the gate very strong. We these are our current numbers in relation to the allocations. So in our very low category, we are 33% our low category is 67% of the total are moderate is 10% or above moderate is already 109% of the total. So when we look at the categories highlighted in red, very low and moderate traditionally are very difficult to produce, require quite a bit of subsidy to decrease that housing type. And in typical years will be a blow. Those numbers right now we are tracking very well on the low category. But as with any affordable deed restricted housing because it relies on so many funding sources, they'll be years where we have

very strong production in years where we don't so really today, what we're looking at is across that 8 year cycle will talk about some of the trends we're seeing and why we're moving the action for today is to make sure that we're looking in those out years of the arena cycle. So if you sites here that talk about housing production in general, so the first side talks about all of our permit types together. This is really the totality of what the department works Why we use this slide is because we want to better understand how permit activity is happening in many situations. Housing production MAY slow, but other development type is moving and that really just means the money is moving around and we're seeing activity still happen. And that holds our permit types hot and what we've seen since really the recovery of the 2008, 2009 recession, our housing production and our permitting really started picking up in 15, 16. We saw dips through covid. But overall, we've been fairly strong from a permitting standpoint, typically around 10,000 permits a year which is very high for the department. What we've seen over the last few years as a slight downward trend. And we have seen limited number of housing production. We have seen some of that money move. There's more homeowner initiated improvements and remodels. So we're still seeing high permit activity. But we're really tracking the housing production. So when we look at this year in comparison to last, this is really just a snapshot of the units that go through building permit process. And those are really the units that we're

delivering. So last year we saw 357 units applied for meaning building permit. And this year, only 91 and how that breaks down as we're seeing single-family dwellings sets. 69 and now 27 to use are still fairly strong. Those are accessory dwelling units at 95. Now we're seeing 64 where we've seen the big drop-off is in the multifamily units with 193 to 0. The multifamily units are traditionally what produces the restricted affordable housing. When we look at the overall totality of what we're working in, we've actually been producing quite a significant number of housing units this year will go well over 1000 units that are completed. We have almost 2000 units that are currently in construction and we have 443 that have the permit issue with construction pending. And then we have 7.68 that are in the review cycle. Now, when we look at the one 1826 under construction in the structures completed, those are already reflected in our arena totals. So those numbers populating the arena totals when the building permit is issued. So the target areas we're focusing on are the permits issued construction 4. 43 7.68 under review. So that's what's going to produce those affordable units in the near future. And what we're seeing right now in the 7.68, although we're still going through that exercise because as the permits issued for the Bility types are still being figured out roughly around 67 d restricted affordable units would be generated at home. Now. Important point really is

to focus on development is the pipeline. When we look at overall development process for very large multi-family projects, it's typically a 3 to 4 year process from start to finish of getting permitting and then construction can take more time on that. So as we go through the entitlement or the land approval process, we're really trying to figure out what is in that bucket, which will then move to building permits. And what we saw a really in 2019, 2020 is a significant spike in the number of formal units. There was a lot of money available to state. A lot of developers were able to take advantage of that that really entitled a significant number of units. And what we're seeing today is actually that being constructed. So most of the active development came through entitlements and that time frame and 2023, you can see that number drops to 0 in 2024, it's much smaller at 3 and right now actively in the system. We have 119. So what we're trying to do is basically provide some incentives to build that number up, because once again, as we look at this, this is the pipeline of what will experience over the next 3 to 4 years. As far as physical construction. So really with the housing pipeline, obviously funding sources can be affected by budget reductions, especially for affordable housing and more structural deficits coming to the mix and that money moves around. There's a possibility over the remainder of the cycle that the funding availability that existed 5 years ago is not there in the future, affordable housing does rely on a variety of different funding sources. So every dollar is important to affordable housing. So anything that can be done as a catalysts little pots of money where although they they don't seem like they're ever going to build the project. They do factor into the cash back and they do are important to actually move projects

forward. So although we've seen significant amount affordable construction of the last 5 years, we are seeing a development downward trend that is actually fairly common is typically on a 10 year cycle will see peaks and valleys. And it is due for a bit of a slowdown. And the action today is really accounting for that. And then once again, planning entitlements or an indicator of future in numbers, we track that heavily. We try to encourage as much as possible through there, but that all us is also going to dictate what we're going to see through the construction process. So what we packaged up today to see if we can act as a catalyst to affordable housing and to help through I think unchartered waters that are going to see in the next 5 years is we are proposing a cff program that reduces the fee to $0 for certain affordability types for a limited period of time. So in this particular case, we want to really to be true, affordable housing. So we are we will require that it be deed restricted and that deed restriction goes through our housing and community Services Department and our housing authority. And that's really deed restricted for the traditional amount of time. We are, including all of the Rena categories. And that's and I think that really is important in many situations. There is a tendency to focus really on the problematic category. So the low with a very low moderate housing, very low and lower all important because they work in conjunction with each other as people move through the affordability ranks and as people have their income grow, you can run into a situation where someone cannot make more money because they could potentially lose the housing. So really a concept of next step. Housing is very important. And one of the challenges is and I think

it is very consistent throughout California has moderate housing is very difficult to build. There isn't a huge demand for it. Most jurisdictions produce lower numbers. So the reason we included everything is very much for that reason. So the community has stepping stones through the affordability categories. So a few points with the low category what we're proposing because we are so high with that percentage. We're at 67. So in this pilot period, if we hit the low allocation of Reno, we will sunset that once we once we hit that category, so are also tagging this to building permit issuance. So these are real units that are being constructed. So the fee is calculated at building project would have to be built building permit issuance ready through the life of this pilot program. One of the pieces that we added on to this in and they'll be discussion later on tonight with a resilient city measures is in response to the Tubbs fire. We allowed temporary housing permits. Those were allowed for fire victims, but they were also allowed anywhere in Santa Rosa for a period of 5 years. Those projects MAY transition into a permanent housing unit at some point and we want to make them eligible that project would have to be eligible under the zoning code requirements to build those contruction use. It would necessarily be a trailer. These would be eligible units so that permit if it transitions away from the temporary housing into a permanent, we will use that as a day as well and make them eligible. We are also saying

that if a project has received funding from our Housing Community Service Department, especially from local funding sources. So your projects getting in lieu fees that they would be eligible. The thought process. There is that projects then have public dollars that were granted unusually projects that are able to get that funding source can move forward. This is really intended to be a catalyst that that funding source dries up or projects not able to to get that. This provides another avenue to incentivize affordable housing. And once again, the program will have an operation term for a limit of 3 years or too, the date in which the impact fee study is adopted by council and the thought process there is this gives a three-year period to see how beneficial this program is. The council can always revisit after the three-year period. But as we go through the impact fee study that impact fee study can look at more permanent waivers. It will look at right-sizing or proportionality. It will bring it all together. So look at the impacts, obviously, anytime we reduce a fee that reduces the revenue coming in that revenue is utilize really by the Capital Project team to deliver capital projects overall is very difficult to estimate what this looks like because it's based on the timing of housing. And in this particular case, what we're really looking at is we're looking at the projects that are teed up and could potentially obtain a building permit within the three-year period. Now, more projects could be added to the mix that we don't know about at this point. But we look at the totality of that. This also

includes some projects that have been sitting around for many years. So, for example, we have a total unit count of 294 that we anticipate could potentially move forward and that would ultimately result in a reduction and that revenue of 3 million dollars included in that total. Our projects such as the smart site that just haven't been moving for a variety different reasons. So its hard to say if that number actually materializes or not, but did want to bring forward a somewhat of a worst-case scenario in the event that these projects to do to shape up and grow legs in this period of time. So what our capital projects team does. And we do have Director Hennessy here today. And if there's any questions about how this impacts project delivery, you'd be happy to dive into those. But generally because it is an inconsistent revenue source, it is taken and it is a portion of a project. It usually doesn't solely focus on funding. The totality of that project. Although we do have additional funding sources through competitive grants that have existed since we have adopted the fee schedule. There lot of times the cff can be used as the match on competitive grants. So they but once again, based on the fact that the total dollar amount is difficult to determine, it is really challenging to understand how the delivery of projects would be affected by this. I think it's important to know. We did talk in the study session about Backfilling. So as the program is revisited at the termination of the 3 years, we would have an understanding at that point of the total dollar amounts that were granted to the program. And then at that point, the council can elect

to backfill and that backfill can take a variety different shapes and sizes. It could be general fund dollars that go into that. But it also could be that projects were able to achieve a grant when that was not envisioned. So that analysis is very difficult to do. On the front end. It's easier to do on the back. And when we can truly understand of the project was needing additional funding, took that from some other source or was able to get it through an unknown source that was not anticipated such as the competitive grant. So with that, it brings me to the recommendations. So does the recommendation by the planning and economic Development Department that the council by resolution adopting affordable housing capital facilities. The pilot program reducing the capital facilities pfieffer certain deed restricted affordable residential unit types to encourage the near term development of specific affordable housing units needed to comply with the regional housing needs allocation. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Council MAY have. >> Thank you very much. Looking to council councilmember make don't. >> Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation gave. I do just have a few clarifying questions. So I'm sure I'm understanding the slides on slide. Number 15, they see that this is for units in the low category. The 0 allowance will sunset once the arena allocation is achieved. So does that mean in the next slide? It said 3 years. So I'm confused between we're going to grant 0, the Intel we reach all of those numbers or for the next 3 years. >> So the there's a few different triggers so 3 years. So it 3 years we would be

looking at a termination of the program. There would also be if we adopt the fee schedule prior to those 3 years that would ended earlier based on this. The specific call out for the low is that although based on the numbers, it does not seem achievable within the three-year period, but because the percentage is so much higher than the very low in the moderate category, there is the possibility that all of a sudden we hit 100% of the low total within the pilot period. And at that point, the program would terminate the 0 feel allowance only for the low category. >> Just so I was clear on the timeline. And then the last question on the moderate housing on slide 17. I just want to be clear. Are those market rate housing or is are those housing? Housing available for lower-income. Just so I'm clear on when I see moderate that doesn't tell me what the House is actually going to be selling for. >> So moderate and in rental or a sale is restricted to 80 or 100% 120%. Excuse me my. So it's the higher and of the deed restricted categories, but an individual still must comply with those affordability requirements to be eligible for that. And then above moderate would be your market rate. Ok? Thank you. I just wanted to clarify herd moderate and I wasn't sure what category that's to open in 2. >> So think that's the end of questions. Other than you're seeing about a 3 million dollar total, that this would impact our cip budgets for infrastructure. Just so I'm clear on the numbers right

now. >> That is correct. If the units identified materialize within the three-year period based on the current few calculation, that would result in a 3 million dollar impact. >> 3 million dollar total. Our year-over-year total. Great. Thank you so much for the clarification. So your step. Of Councilmember Downs question with that was the reason for the cap on the on the low. >> The low income housing. >> So really reason for the cap is to really incentivize that allocation and meeting allocation. So we really set that as a goal and to limit the fiscal impacts of the program. And that's why you see some of the restrictions is to understand the need understand the benefit over the pilot program. Create really some level fiscal constraint so we can still support the capital projects. And then if we hit the arena target, we're doing really well. And at that point, we're meeting the need. I think where we didn't apply it, although it is possible on the very low in the moderate is we don't produce much of We typically get higher numbers in the low category. Thank you for that explanation. Actually with the moderate. Is the lack expected input or impact. >> With moderate housing due to the lack of modern housing currently in the planning cycle, or is it due to the fact that the funding stack for modern housing makes these impact fees less of an incentive? I believe it's the latter. There's typically less funding available for moderate and many situations, especially of developments are doing inclusionary housing where it's a market rate project and they're bringing in some form of moderate deed restricted into that. >> The impacts of restricting that for 55 years. It doesn't

pencil. And I think that's been some of the challenges is a lot of the funding has moved to the lower income categories. And we've seen moderate just not really succeed in that environment. That's helpful. Thank you. >> Councilmember for me. Thank Well done on report. I think got a lot of great stuff. I did want to ask you about reporting if you had any 6 months a year, 18 months, any point in which during this time period. >> The pilot that you are intending to come back and let us know if this is been put to use and if so what the impacts are doing or arena numbers. That's an excellent question. >> Generally usually with a pilot program like this, we are monitoring and internally on a regular basis. It's almost month to month monitoring at that. I think as we look at an annual cycle, we can do check. And so I think an important point check ins as well is that if we see additional spikes from affordable housing a tweet, the numbers we can commit to doing that. But typically with these, we do a more formal review annually. If that works for the council, it possibly isolate annually would be about right and then when you The units, is based on completion or occupancy permits being issued are based on permits being pulled. How you measure the the trigger for when cut off. Hopefully we have a problem. Actually. I doubt we're going to get to this. I think this is a lot do about wish and hope. But in the event that we do have a bumper year, too. How will we know that we need to pull the trigger? Because what we've got so much housing coming the pay claim, can't afford it

anymore. It's permit. Issuance is the target. So that's when we actually populate arena numbers. They're they're based on the date in which the permit is issued. >> Typically, when a permit is issued, the development becomes a real it moves forward. There's not too many developments that sit on the shelf or experience delay at that point. But but that is that is the target. We would we would chart that that's when we would calculate the impact because that's when it would be achieved. And then numbers would be presented that we read my mind around issuance versus actual completion. And you say there's a pretty close to one to one correlation there. Pretty close. We I have seen delays at the issue inside and that's usually when projects struggle under construction. But they complete. And I've seen situations where devout different developers take over. And it really just depends on a variety of factors in the economy right now, our housing is still been fairly productive. We're moving forward with a lot of units and we're seeing quite a bit of interest actually in newer projects. So unless we see other indicators that they're really being delays and active projects, we would revisit. But at this point as projects get to issuance what we can say with a high certainty, they are moving forward with construction and completion. Ok, we do have the wiggle room or the authority that say you do and handle a multifamily project. >> That sits for a year or to come back to us or to work with the developer to switch the party's permits. I guess what I'm trying to say is I would hate to see progress being held up because another

developer could pencil with this pilot. But the one who holds the permits is not moving forward for. I mean, there could be all kinds of capital issues coming up. We're not that it's hard to say what's going to happen the next few years. It's just to make sure that I understand the questions. So it sounds like when developers move forward, developments move forward. There can be a changeover really that can cause delays. So a project goes to building permit. >> then another developer picks it up project issues a building permit I wasn't super clear. That's on me. I'm saying let's say developer. A Jane Doe comes word pulls a permit for 50 multifamily 50 units or something. And then John Doe comes behind Iran and wants to the same thing. But we have reached that number. The permits have been issued. >> But whatever reason, Jane is not performing. What can you do in that situation? Understood. And I think in a situation like that where someone is really already allocated the units through the waiver, but is not producing because the project is delaying. >> I think as we bring this back to council and we talk through those issues technically based on the program, pram utters developer be would not be eligible. But those are some of the unique situations that you really have to flesh out as part of going through the program. And you see the uniqueness of who benefited from it. And those potential projects where you thought should benefit and weren't able to come in. So I think how that would be worried if a cousin in the parameters, as I said, it would be excluded that that would be revisiting at some point of the program to

understand how that looks. It could be done on a case-by-case. But overall it would be done at the three-year mark when we see who was eligible, who was not? >> Well, just because of the nature of how difficult it is to build affordable housing, I would encourage you and your staff to come to us rather than for go great, affordable housing project in the middle of cycle rather hear from you sooner than later. Understood. Thank you. >> I did have a question about the anticipated effects on some of the cip projects that we might already have in the pipeline. Are there? Because I know we we look to the future. So are their cip projects that we might the at a loss? It won't be able to proceed with or >> yes, I will ask Director Hennessy to come down and assist with Thank you. Thank you for question. Short answer is for things that are already in process. >> Those are >> for or budgeted for will be through next fiscal year. So the appropriations that are made. Coming this JULY first, we should be affected by this pilot. It will eventually push out other projects, things that are in the pipeline that are not funded yet. But as far as things that we're moving towards delivery on this would not affect us. >> Thank Councilmember MacDonald. Thank you, Mayor. I remembered I was approached by a couple of school board trustees that there seems to be some questions around how developer fees >> are sent to schools for their future development or

their money from developer impact fees. Is there any correlation for us waiving our developer fees and how that would impact local schools for their? Developer fees? It's an excellent question. So the capital facilities fees does not address schools. So that's actually a separate fee category that's collected by the district's they control the fee. They control the collection, the fee. We facilitate that as part of the building review process. >> But the waiving of the cff would not have any impact on fees that are generated by the school districts. >> Thank you. And I I appreciate you clarifying that for the public so that they're sure that there's no impact on local school say grow and we grow as far as developments go, there's definitely a correlation for needing more facilities and schools or to upgrade their facilities. So I just want to make sure that's part of the record. Thank you for the answer. >> Look at council to see if there any additional questions unseen. None. MADAM City, quickly, please facilitate public comment on this item. >> Thank you, Mayor. We are now taking public comment on item 15.2, if you are in the council chamber and would like to provide comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name. Please make your way to the podium. You'll have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. The first public comment will be from. Cliff, followed by out into Wayne in please, as they call your name Be aware that we have 2 podiums on the West and the east side of the council chamber and you can line up at either one. So, Cliff, please go ahead. I mean, when the property owners

in Santa Rosa. >> I'm in favor of cff impact fee reduction or elimination for affordable housing. Especially if it's in the way affordable by design housing. And we need housing. However, that is not the only restriction that is happening with developers. They have to look at zoning, which is a huge problem. With his own More does not mean let alone having more. The way of zoning does not less in the way of development cost. It has to Economically affordable to design and build. And housing and especially affordable housing. And what we have now is we have zoning, Moore is not less need to adjust to rezoning as well as impact fees. That's just 2 of the challenges. Now the league don't have much in the way of state funding for the way of affordable housing. And if any at all. We have to address that. But as for The removal for affordable housing, especially a very low. Don't know if it include things like studio apartments and the like. But to incentivize developers that I've talked to. Could look at. Reasonable zoning, reasonable impact fees, Reasonable government participation in financing costs for this And I've challenge with training that so And Justin, the challenge is trying to get a regional grocery store Bill. In any case, I just want to say I'm

in favor of the Impact fee. Elimination on affordable housing in all ways that can be Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be followed by Dwayne Than heiress. >> Testing testing good evening. Mayor Rogers, members of the council, my name Lerma. I will keep the to park over in Roseland, but I'm also a board member of the Sonoma County Hospitality Association. We represent hotels and lodging, food and beverage wine tasting rooms, wineries, retail host of businesses in Sonoma County. That probably numbering about 20 30,000 employees across the county for us. Housing is very important issue. It's really job won both the availability and affordability of housing. We believe this program in front of you today supports economic development and economic vitality for our industry, which we thing really drives a lot of the economy in Sonoma County. We believe it supports and protects our jobs and our workforce. Without our workforce, we really can survive. So we need housing for that workforce to to be able to house those folks who have to commute and they can stay here in Sonoma County. Lastly, we support the pilot project before you. We appreciate you bringing it forward. We think it's very creative and innovative. And we spoke. I spoke in several times before you is I'm glad to really see this come forward. So we encourage you to support the pilot project in the fee waivers in to approve this resolution this evening. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be twain followed by heiress, the n# # # # . Sure. One

moment. Thank you. >> Hello, my name is Dwayne. Do with from the County Housing advocacy group for over 30 years advocating for affordable housing here in Santa Rosa. What's most needed is affordable housing for the extremely low income. Then the very low income and the low income, the moderate always takes care of itself. I put up something here from the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, because what they've been doing is providing this extremely low and low-income type housing near good bicycle, transportation pass during this next 4 years of the federal administration. You MAY not be able to get any of the types of grant you got in the past. You MAY find yourself up against a brick wall in many ways. One of the difficulties that's been happening here throughout the years. Least the last 30 that were pain, the potential to is that developers kind of scheme the system and they'll say they're going to put in affordable housing to the people at the lowest levels and then down the road shifted over to the public, picking up the cost that's happened numerous times. We can speak about it during the short moment right now. But what you need is truly affordable housing, which was mentioned earlier by one of the council members and it needs to be deed restricted for the longest time possible with that in mind, this type of a project that tempting to embark upon needs to have a annual update to the council. It needs to be made sure that you incentivize for the extremely low income and the

very low income. First and foremost, I don't think you ever had to really worry about moderate. That is truly market rate housing. And it's always been provided for. We've never had situation in last 30 years, which modern housing was built. But what we've been always trying to catch up on to get the housing at the lowest levels for the extremely low income and low income people. One of the things that could be helpful on all of this. If you are to involve the community and some of these discussions with developers ahead of time and have it be a collaborative type of approach. Some of the properties that are available here near the railroad Square area near the smart train area should have been in production for housing years and years ago. But we couldn't get past what some people call zoning disease. Previous speaker pointed out how he has problems with that. In the long term. You folks can use this three-year pilot to try to make sure that you provide lots of housing for those people who are in dire need that says people who are on the streets right now pushing shopping carts, holding their belongings and making sure that people who might get pushed out because they're elderly and they can't catch up with the rents are so high are now are definitely given a priority to have a place to live. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be heiress followed by Abby. Even John. Eris Weaver, executive director of Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition. Also a member of generation housing in folks from Jenin age and

from Saint Rose in the on my board of directors, housing in transportation are inextricably linked of with more affordable, have multifamily housing located. Morrison is centrally close to where people actually work and and recreate means people can spend less time driving to work. They don't have to live so far away, trying to find somewhere that they can afford, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The people's need to drive in make for better quality of life. So this measure is a win-win all around. Thanks. Thank you. The next speaker will be Abby followed by John than Ridge. >> Good evening. My name Abby Arnold. And I'm a homeowner in the Montgomery Village. >> Neighborhood and I'm active member of Gen Age and also Santa Rosa Yimby. Recently I participated in the National Week without driving. And so i spent a whole week getting to know my neighborhood and the businesses and my neighbors in my neighborhood by not driving as I when I shared with people with who I interacted with, what I was doing, so many of them told me about their daily commutes from Alameda and Contra Costa counties, San Francisco, where they live Nate with friends and family in these far distant places. Many people said they spent 90 minutes each way commuting. So that's 3 hours that they're spending 3 unpaid hours. I might say added on to their work day because they can't afford to live here in Sonoma

County. And that's if they work here and they're the people who provide many of the services and work in many of the businesses Here, Inc in Santa Rosa. I want I'm here tonight to encourage you to adopt this pilot project. We need more affordable multifamily housing that will add to the housing available for everyone. We particularly need housing in Santa Rosa. So the people who work here and they staff our economy, including agricultural, want and agriculture and tourism can live here and be part of our communities. 24 7, you can do something about the high cost of new housing by adopting the proposed fee reduction pilot project. With the pilot project. We can see how the fees affect the cost and completion of badly needed low and moderate income housing that we need constructed here in Santa Rosa. I encourage you to adopt the pot pilot project today and help make Santa Rosa a place where our workforce can find a place live. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker will be John followed Bay Ridge, then Edina. >> John, go ahead. >> Good evening and thank you for your time. John Contreras and I'm with Providence Hospice Foundation, Sonoma County and former 28 year educator here in Sonoma County. I'm here to share with you all love story about students that I've taught over the years, many of which graduated from high school moved on to college, tried to come back to Sonoma County to live and obviously the affordable housing was not available to them to settle in and start their families and

so forth. And so when it came across generation housing, I said I need to become a member. So I'm a member and in support of all the efforts that they have been. Pushing forward here to bring to Sonoma County, affordable housing. So many children that I that I still call them children over the years in there trying to come back to Sonoma County decided it wasn't going to work. So they moved away and whether it be out of county, but with many of which also out of state. In addition to that experience, there, we have students that had come back and are still living with their families and recently, here's a success story. Former student purchased his first home with his wife. However, it took him 10 years of saving and living with his parents and assistance from his grandparents. That's 3 generations to try to get this young person into a home here in Sonoma County. That is uncalled for, I think. And I think we need to do more. So I appreciate all eu council members listening and helping us move forward with this measure. And please know that we are in desperate need of this type of support generation housing. Thank you to all of your efforts. Much appreciated. Thank you for your time. Good evening. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be. Rich followed by a dean of an image, an. Please go ahead. >> Good afternoon. This is rich Wallach with Burbank Housing, senior director of business development and housing Finance. I want to

speak to both kind of 2 things related to this, which is our experience with working with the city of Petaluma. During and after their amended ordinance that allowed projects too. Not only tougher, but also have waived significant impact fees Petaluma for those who don't know had pretty much all of their impact fees. Waived through ordinance. So it's no longer a wave. Its bite by right? And it's for 100% affordable projects. All except water and sewer and school fees which is completely independent from the city. Anyway. The value to 2 of our recent projects, one was Petaluma River Place. 50 unit project. That amount was projected to be around. 1.7 million dollars over a million dollars of that was waived. So fees, the school fees and water and sewer covered this balance. The 600 plus 1000. Before that point, anywhere in the and the county. The the only thing that could be done is deferring those fees and frankly and in recent years with high interest rates, that was a true benefits of projects. Saving interest costs that were, you know, 70% is important on 18 month or so. Project. But the complete deferral is a game changer and will help many projects move forward. You know, as far as the the the ways that municipalities can help projects, this is certainly one way that most beneficial because it doesn't translate to a loan. It doesn't translate to new regulatory agreement or do prospects. But just is a direct benefit to

those projects. Santa Rosa, we have multiple projects either in planning or construction planned construction. That would benefit directly from this, including phase 3 of our Laurel Apartments, the former journeys in sight, downtown's Karen Thomas phase 2 and other projects that are in the planning stage. So we appreciate your thoughtful review of this plant. Hopefully get past. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Edina followed by image. And then Gregory. Please go ahead. >> Good Evening. Council has leading activist for Sonoma County. I am 100% against this pilot program. It concerns me greatly that our council members are doing the bidding for a generation housing, which is supposedly a non profit. But they are project of the Tide Center, which is a black hole for money laundering. I did also see their boats and was threatened by the federal government. So that being said back when Chris Rogers was trying to collect fraudulent signatures for measure, I hear it. And Jenny Close executive director of Generation all seem as his legal representative and then decided to go ahead and move our parking garages and other areas in to serve was for affordable housing. So he's literally their puppet are some other of our council members. So why are you at the Beck and call of generation housing? They are 100% for-profit. I see a bunch of wealthy white developers from out of the area coming in to request that these fees get waived. You guys are in the budget crisis and you know

this and it seems like you want to dig hole even further. None of these units are affordable. The average rate, our local constituents come on even afford these plans make absolutely no sense. We want to continue talking about how these affordable housing projects are working in conjunction with the smart train. However, Ys, the smart train going to cease operations within the next 4 years because the tiny tots will fail as a field previously and it filled in and absolutely horrible of options. So I'm against this You guys do partner. The city uses the press Democrat as a propaganda office generation housing just partnered with the press Democrat for their housing summit. And there are literally using them as a propaganda tool to silence opposing voices. Ironically enough, MR. Darius Anderson, who owns the press Democrat, requested a restraining order against me after I had subpoenaed regarding the missing homeless monies. So all of you were involved with this fraud, MISTER Weeks. MISTER Lopez, MISTER Rogers. I don't care who it is. What I already bought. Anti slot motion to strike, which means I'm taking only criminal action against Mr, Anderson, but civil as well. That includes discovery. And that means some of you are going to be a subpoena to MISTER Rogers Normal. You look me that in the face just fun. You're looking down. >> I don't care that you're not going to be our assemblyman. Guess what? That means that you have more problems for me until you can tell the truth. By price, I suggest you do that. Learned to tell the truth. GOD bless you, MISTER Rogers, find prize because you're assembly. Iran

is about to get a little crazy for you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be image and followed by Gregory than Kalen. Mention. Go ahead. My name is imaging. Jones. This is 3 fingers. I am one of the lucky ones I e. >> Moos. Sonoma County is a county with almost a quarter of its population over 65. So that means that maybe a lot of us moved here to time and there was some affordable housing available. Yeah, and 18 and have interest rates were. As many of us slim and our kids cannot. Buy homes here. They either with cars paying up rent or they leave the county, which is really sad or and they can't come back very easily as former speaker just said. Also, I've worked with homelessness for a long time and it's rather alarming. How many people probably over 60 65 do not have shelter it could be just. It doesn't mean they have substance abuse problem. That means they had some bad luck. I was wondering how affordable rent measured up to homeownership and I found interesting fact, which speaks to the importance of generational wealth. In the whole United States. Homeowners have an average. Net worth. That is 400% times higher than those that rent with a similar demographics and earnings and home equity represents the largest proportion of wealth. We can see how people are affected. One home ownership is out of reach by looking at some history. Historically black families prevented from ownership through the practice of redlining. Color-coded maps are developed by the federal

government in a den to find where people lived so that they would not receive loans. Black parents were denied pathways to affordable ownership and has affected their ability to set up future generations for success. Unsafe, unhealthy and affordable homes creates an awful lot of psychological stress for parents. Adolescents have lower success in school, children who moved around frequently. Experience for emotional and behavioral health. I have been. Desperately trying to make sense of why this country has come to this point of such divide and why people voted the way they did. Biggest things that kept popping up was. The biggest factor was the economy. Feeling a cut? Economic insecurity keeps people preoccupied in a desperate struggle to just survive. If people are struggling and having to focus on difficult day to day decisions. Based on economics, joined by gas to a buy groceries. They don't have the bandwidth to do much else other than survive. We need to desperately our communities and break this cycle. Thank you. The next speaker will be Gregory followed by Caitlin. Then Pat. >> Gregory, go ahead. >> MADAM Mayor and members of the council first, I want to thank the last speaker, as you know, actively trying to build homeless housing have been all my life. It's my colleagues on nonprofit boards, Saint Vincent, Catholic Charities Mandapan Danko who have basically built your really low income housing. I'm disappointed Director Osborne

didn't include extremely low. It's not enough to simply say 0 to 50 because going to 50 Do 48 maybe my subsidy that comes out of the health department, that old prop 63, it paid 10 million dollars for the Danko Commons and pay 10 million dollars for care. It is and take that and others are paying for that here. The U.S. Roses, that subsidy that usually goes toward people is paying for buildings because a while ago, the state of California said in order to get people into housing who have problems, they've got to build the housing. So I am also here today to say I've still got money, the behavioral health department as ice and earlier has is now becoming responsible for spending 30% of the 30 million dollars we get. That's 10 million dollars a year on housing. We've never done it before, but we're going to be doing it. So gave there is subsidy and it is available. Has a million dollars. They were supposed to spending on housing. So there's 11 million dollars in subsidy for extremely low-income housing. But if you don't incentivize it, if you don't ask people to do it and point them toward me, you're not gonna get it. Now, I want to point out one last thing which is there is an impact on building other than the housing I'm talking about. And that's if you don't build I've got to spend

millions and millions of dollars on those homeless to keep them from dying. That's an impact. Your next a study on a look at what's the impact of not building this housing on the rest of your dollars because you're spending the money to just like me because we're not building that housing. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Caitlin, followed by Pat than Jenny. >> My name is Kaitlyn Child's. I live downtown actually got to ride my bike down here today. And I love living downtown. I've loved getting to see some of the projects that are going up. But it's really clear to me that it's not enough. And this community that I love becoming increasingly unaffordable for many people, including my siblings who can't afford to move back here. We've talked about the housing crisis for many years. But I think the time to talk is over this proposal in front of you would put Santa Rosa at the forefront of this. And I think it's time for Santa Rosa to step up and be leaders. So I would urge you to vote yes on this proposal. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be pat followed by Jenny. Then Angie. >> My name is having Donald. I am the housing team supervisor at legal aid of Sonoma County. First, I want to Echo point Greg made, which is that there is a cost here either way. There is obviously a cost of building housing, but there is always a cost to not building housing. And this is something that I see every day. My clients at a legal aid. >> Who are all low housing, insecure or living paycheck to

paycheck? Pretty much by definition. >> Those clients are important members of their community, their teachers, they are nurses there childcare. But the reality for so many of them is that they cannot stay in their communities. It is simply too expensive here. And the I being a low-income tenants in Santa Rosa and Sonoma County at large is basically impossible at this point. And this is a conversation that I have to have almost daily basis with my clients. I'm a lawyer. I like to think I'm a pretty good lawyer. But sometimes the issues that my clients have cannot be solved by a lawyer. The issues that they have can only be solved by having available low-income housing, the can cater to them that can ensure that they have shelter and cater to their needs also point out that we're increasingly looking at a brave new world in terms of federal headwinds for any sort of equity minded policy solutions. And that makes it all the more important that we're taking these problems very seriously on a local level and at Santa Rosa, which has long been a leader in housing solutions continues to be a leader and housing solutions and leverages all of its tools at its disposal in that direction. So with that, I think I give a lot of things to generation housing for their advocacy on this issue. And thanks to city Council for its leadership here. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Jenny followed by Angie than Adrian. >> Good evening, MADAM Mayor. >> Council members and staff to enclose generation Housing e d you MAY have read my pre election close to a post-election message to our

members, both of which mine community members. But then if they're frustrated with national politics, if they're looking that weren't there was from the election are feeling powerless in the face of federal policy that there is planning to do right here at home that can make life better for them, their friends, their family, their employees, and in those pieces, I reminded ensure them that are local leadership is listening and based on what I saw presented here tonight on impact fee reform, it does seem that you all are listening listening to the 450 people who signed our petition. The 65 organizations that signed our coalition letter. The 45 people who made public comment and a few letters to the editor. And I imagine I'm not the only one who venture year in person. So we thank you for listening to our plea for help on impact the reform and bold housing solutions. And it's clear from staff presentation that you're not just listing, but you're working too saying No is easy, saying Yes, takes work. It takes research discussion, planning even risk. So we thank you for listening and we thank you for doing the work. Earlier this year. I stood here are actually there and said that my confidence in local leadership's conviction to lean in doubled housing solutions was waning. And I asked you to make me a believer again. And more than ever. I along with my team and much of this community desperately needs leaders that they can believe in. So we ask you today to show your leadership by casting and I

vote. We want to see those green lights in support of the 0. The program that was presented here today. Let's let this be a giant step in taking local control over the future of our community in gaining some momentum in tackling our most intersectional are most structural obstacle to a healthy and prosperous community. Our housing prices, let's invest in housing. Let's invest in housing for economic development. Let's and invest in housing is a tool for climate action. Let's invest in housing for people MAY cause believers again. Thank you for your leadership. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Angie, followed by Adrian than not to have you. >> The evening, I'm Andy Dillon. Sure. Executive director first 5 Sonoma County here tonight to urge you to take immediate action to adopt the right size impact fee proposal. The need to act to mitigate our housing crisis is beyond urgent. Every day we're seeing increasing negative ripple effects of the limited stock of affordable housing in Santa Rosa. Families with children who most concerned about relocating school districts continue to cedis enrollment. Our workforce, especially teachers, childcare workers, nurses, restaurant workers, first responders increasingly increasingly do not have affordable options for housing here. I know you're aware that nearly half of Simon Sonoma County households, our housing cost burden, meaning spend more than 30% of their income on housing and a quarter actually severely burdened forking over at least 50% of their income on housing costs every month

and sometimes even more. >> Severe housing cost burdens are shouldered largely by low-income earners, particularly affecting communities of color and families, especially those with young children and single parent households. Many are living in unstable and substandard housing conditions. And what's worse. Severe housing cost burdens often forced people to make impossible choices between paying the rent accessing healthcare, healthy food, transportation, educational opportunities for themselves and their kids and other essential things exacerbating the existing disparities severely housing cost burden Santa residents experienced significant stress impacting their health, mental health and overall well-being. Obviously the stress of high housing costs not only impact individual people's health and family stability in children's well-being, but also affects the broader economy, limiting spending in local businesses and constraining our overall economic mobility approving the impact fee proposal will catalyze the affordable workforce and market rate housing production that the city needs. If we want a Santa Rosa, that is diverse, vibrant and thriving. I know I do. So I look forward to seeing action on this proven policy solution tonight. Please use your power to enact immediate and impactful. The reform. We cannot wait any longer for this. And as always, thank you for your service to the community. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Adrian followed by

act, have >> During covert locally Percenters the nba and a member, resident of the West End neighborhood. And I'm here to support the Affordable Housing capital facilities. The program he's been mentioned by several speakers tonight. The cost of not building sufficient housing has been simply catastrophic for. Affordability for our homelessness goals, for our workforce. And our small businesses. And for our commute. And even for California a political influence on the world's on the national stage. There's been much discussion lately about the city's finances and how we can afford. To invest in certain programs or not. I would say this is something we can't afford to not do. Let this be a down payment on a growth strategy to address the city's affordability, financial, economic and climate goals. And I think staff are preparing such a thoughtful proposal and respectfully urge or I vote. Thank you. >> Thank you. The next speaker will be Octavio. Okay. Vo. Mayor mc no one else approach the podium for public comments on this item. Thank you. Bring it back to council see if there any. >> Questions or comments come MacDonald. >> Just a few comments. I just want to say. Thank you again for your thoughtful presentation. I know this is brought to you some time ago and it took some time to prepare for us and as we just got started discussing this with the community. They wanted us to just make an instant decision on what we could wave and what we couldn't wait. I appreciate

the thoughtfulness so that we had the full. Spectrum of information as it was brought to and I will be voting eye on this tonight for a lot of different reasons. And I want to really site Greg said to us about the impact of not acting on it and what we spend on homeless and and and some other families that are really the working poor is what I consider them to be. They're so close to being a step away from not being able to make rent. So for us to be able to weigh the impact fees to create more housing so that they have opportunities not just to work in our stores, not just to work and childcare, but for their own families to have that stability specifically for children and families. I think is incredibly important. So thank you again. I'm happy it's going to be a pilot program. So we have information coming back to council on the impact of our cip projects. Thank you again for everyone who came here tonight to give us comments and more information so that we can make the best decision for Santa Rosa. >> Councilmember Rogers. Thank you so much. Mayor. I just want to respond back to the public comment for Medina Jenna Close has never been an attorney for me or an organization that I've worked for. She knows this. It was said in one of the I think 15 rejections she's now received from the fppc. >> About b# # # # # # # complaints against since the start of the assembly campaign. I'll be happy to support the proposal and seeing her show up and make comments from the left turn, I suppose is better than leaving inappropriate comments on pictures of my 2 month-old

on social media are showing up to fundraisers and screaming homophobic comments. People. She doesn't know what she's also done in the last few months. So I want to make sure folks knew that is total bull. We are a community that supports not just housing, but also truth and transparency. And I'll be happily supporting this measure tonight. >> Councilmember Fleming. Thank you, Mayor. >> What I really like about this? Is that. We're headed into really difficult economic times uncertain times and we have to get creative and we have to get simple elegant way about our solutions. And what this does is it doesn't burden the city's budget, but it does answer the call of the public. The rightful called to build affordable housing in streamline it and make it simpler for developers. This is probably one of 5, 6, or 10 tools that we here at the local level could probably should deploy in order to increase the availability of housing, which has been rightly noted today, not as just an economic issue, but also as a mental health issue. We have to lock arms in our community to move forward in a way that. Brings us together. In really difficult times. And so I'll be supporting this, but also want to signal to everybody sitting here listening that looking forward to supporting a lot more things like this. And I want every developer who's listening to this to know that we need you to come to our community and we are willing to make it easier for you. And with that councilmember

plumbing because there are no other comments. >> Can you honors and giving us a motion? All right. I suppose they will move this All Bring a resolution of the council of the City of Santa Rosa adopting an affordable housing capital facilities. The pilot program reducing the capital facilities the for certain deed restricted affordable residential unit types to encourage the near term development of specific affordable housing units needed to comply with the regional housing needs allocation. Also known as reena and wave for the reading of the text. Second. Have a motion made by Councilmember Fleming in a second by Councilmember MacDonald. >> And with that, MADAM City, me. Please call the vote. Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I kept his absent councilmember MacDonald, I councilmember Fleming. I councilmember all dressed Vice Mayor stop. I Mayor Rogers, I let the record show this passes. 6 affirmative votes. All right. In saying that it is 5.42. >> We will go to our first public hearing. 16.1. >> Assistant city manager Dan Stunt. >> Thank you, MADAM Mayor Item 6. MADAM Mayor item 16.1 is a public hearing case in point. To amend the Santa Rosa fees. Schedule to add an annual tobacco retail license. And as a reminder to the public, this item was continued from the OCTOBER 22nd 2024 regular

meeting. My colleague, assistant city manager not will be providing this presentation. Good evening, mayor and council members, Assistant city manager. >> I'm here before you today to talk again about tobacco retail license and continuing the progress of getting this ordinance and fee and license implemented so that we can begin to provide change within our community toward reducing the access of tobacco products toward youth. I briefly want to go over some information that we've covered previously. Just quick sorry. I do have a question. >> City manager, does it have to remove it? >> Sorry, it just occurred to me it meant taking mayor. I did not see that coming. It was a lot of other stuff coming you can give us a second. It assistant city manager. I apologize for interrupting. Thank you. You got to come back. >> All right. This isn't manager if continue. Thank you. >> Thank you, mayor. So again, I want to just do a quick recap why we're here. What the council has put into into action at this point and to take then the next steps that getting squared away just also just that add a little bit. I I do have other folks in the audience of their questions. When we get to the end from Summit County that can assist in answering questions about the compliance inspections and whatnot as we go through it. So as you see on the screen,

just to recap of what we should described previously about, why are we doing this? What tobacco retail license, what's the ordinance associated with the establishment of a license and the council gave clear direction that our focus is to reduce access of tobacco products to to use. And we implemented a series of conditions for retailers that do sell tobacco that help us to regulate and have positive impact toward reducing that type of access. As I showed from MAY, we had 118 retailers at that time. This gives you some indication as to where those located, was noticed, by noted by council, there is some geographic inequities, especially by district and the ordinance that was established didn't specifically address those inequities. But it does give us the opportunity to begin having a positive impact on where they MAY be located away. They MAY relocate in the future given restrictions. Section 6 dash 20.100 of the ordinance, the council adopted does describe is the intent of the city to issue licenses to retailers and that without license we would be signing a fee with to ensure that we can do proper compliance along the way so that they are meeting the needs of the ordinance. That fee is intended specifically for the Rick who recovering of costs for us to do the implement our to do the compliance testing for us have an educational program and to administratively issue those

licenses to those retailers. And there are sections of both the government and city code that give us the assurance on how that fema to be incorporated, what it can be used for and what it can't be used for. And those are included as part of the ordinance as well as showing up on the screen. We did spend time working with the county of Sonoma Department health services to ensure that the calculated feed that will be presenting this evening and requesting the council take action on does meet and comply with those codes and ordinances. It is associated with a memorandum under a memorandum of understanding that we have in draft form. At this point it is ready to execute depending upon the direction by council. The reason that is the case is it will be specifically dependent on the number of compliance visits that council requests that the Department of Health Services conducted an annual basis. We have to memorialize that in you. And once the city manager who's been authorized by the ordinance adoption to sign that on behalf of the city, signs it, it will go to the Board of Supervisors with the tentative date of DECEMBER the 10th to execute. As we said, the predominant component of the fee itself is to not only pay for the administration associated with the issuance of licenses but to recover costs for the initial compliance visit. Any return visits that are required to demonstrate whether or not kind of their fix a ticket was actually taken care of. And then ongoing management of those licenses. Once they get issued, the fee itself does not actually come back to the

city for our code enforcement team. Should a violation be issued at that case? We will use the violation penalties to cover the costs of city staff time. Should a violation be issued to a particular retailer? So we are not utilizing this particular feet to cover city costs. It just those of our partner at the county. The key piece of the fee construction is really the number of compliance visits that existed during the course of a year at council's direction. We've created option one and an option to the option. One would result in a single compliance visit annually. Option 2 would result into compliance visits annually. And that was from council to be harder or more strict in our issuance and management of the ordinance itself. As of at the ordinance itself states that we will issue the number of permits as of the date that the ordinance became effective. So SEPTEMBER 7th was when the ordinance became effective. There were 118 total retailers in Santa Rosa. That cell that sell tobacco products that are not pharmacies. And I want to be clear about that. We did not include pharmacies in this. There are 4 or 5 pharmacies currently selling tobacco products that will need to cease operation as our code restricts and prohibits the sale of tobacco products within a pharmacy itself. So with the 118 non pharmacies that are so that a retailing today 105 are general retailers and 13. Our smoke shop dedicated locations. The idea at this point based on the ordinance in the conversation that we had with

counsel is that the fyi and license would become required as of JANUARY. First 2025 and we're prepared with the county to begin issuing licenses and accepting feet payments. Once we've established the fee here tonight, as I mentioned, we've got 2 options for you and I'll show slide. That gives that information here shortly. We are looking to include this first round as an 18 month program. Our interest in doing an annual fee would annual fee based on the fiscal year. It would be a JULY JUNE starting the program in JANUARY forces us to add an additional cost associated with the compliance visit for those first 6 months. And so as you see the slot the table, that's going to show how the fees are calculated. We are looking at 18 month initial license fee. And so folks would retailers would not be required to reapply or to issue or pay a new fee until JULY. First of 2026. So as I said, we've gone with 2 options. One would be a single annual compliance visit. One to compliance visit per year. These fees were calculated by department health services and provided to us. That would be justification per government code requirement for our fee schedule We've broken it down. If you look at the center and the right column, the one annual into annual our annual fees would on a standard basis be $631 for a single compliance and $828. If we chose to do to compliance visits annually for the first

6 months, the JANUARY to JUNE had a cost of $382 for a single compliance visit for for that time period in that regard. As I mentioned with an 18 month, issuance, the total proposed fee for the first year would be $1013 for a single compliance visit per year, which would be to during that 18 month period. We're $1210 for 2 compliance visit per year, which would be 3 during that initial 18 month period. Based on the information that we heard over the course of the last several meetings, staff is recommending that we do a single compliance visit that is consistent with other jurisdictions adjacent to us as well as throughout Sonoma County we we recognize that one of the conditions that was asked of councils to be cognizant of the economic impacts to retailers itself. And so while we are showing you an option and should council choose to direct staff to incorporate a to compliance visit per year fee. We do have that as option or attachment to to the staff report and we we would in certain that into you instead of the proposed option, one. So with that said, it's recommended by the city manager's office. The council, one whole public hearing to discuss, adding the annual tobacco retail license fee and to adopt a that establishes the attack. A recent retail license fee associated with a single compliance of his per year. That would be effective JANUARY first 2025 it would be shown on the center is a fee schedule as section 7.0 7 and I am available to answer any questions as our partners that are assisting >> Thank you. Look at council

to see if there any questions or comments seeing none. Thank you for the presentation that I say that part. I'm sorry. Thank you for the presentation. >> Seeing MADAM City We will now open the public hearing. Thank you, Mayor. We are now taking public comment on item 16.1. If you're in the council chamber like to provide comment but have not yet provided a speaker card. >> Or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. The Mayor, we have no one approaching the Putin for public comment on this item. Thank you very much. We will now close the public hearing, bringing it back to council to see if there any comments. Seeing none. Looking for a motion from Councilmember MacDonald. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to move adoption of the resolution of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa. Amending the previously adopted city of Santa Rosa. The schedule to ads section 7. >> 0, 7 annual tobacco retail license fee and wave for the reading of the text. Second. >> We have a motion made by COUNCILMAN MacDonald in a second by meant yes. >> My apologies for interrupting. MADAM Mayor. We do need to make part of motion whether you want to include up option one or option to staff recommendation is option one, which would be one set of the year. Option. 2 is the other alternative which be twice per year at a slightly higher fee. And then the option one. >> Thank you for the clarification. Zalman my motion to include option one as staff has recommended in the presentation. Second stands. And with that. Can you please restate who had the

second? And with that MADAM City clerk mean, please call a bit. Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I Councilmember Craig, he's absent Councilmember MacDonald. I Councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember Alvarez has recused. Vice mayor step. I Mayor Rogers, I let the record show this past the 5 affirmative votes. Thank you. >> And with that, I do want to let the public know that I will be excusing myself. So we hitting the meeting over to vice mayor says that to carry out the rest of the meeting. Thank you. >> Thank you. Will move on to item 16 point to our second public hearing. Assistant city manager. Yours. Thank you, MR. Vice Mayor. Item 16 point to as a public hearing on Resilience, City municipal, code text and zoning Mecum map amendments and city Planner Christian can do, Larry, a we'll be providing this presentation. Christian. I am going to have you all wait one until Perez returns. The chamber. Christian feel free to proceed. >> Good Vice Mayor stopping Council members we're going over today is the resiliency standards and develop measures. This isn't there repeat a 23 Dash, 0, 1, 0, And that's what effect citywide. Before you today. Was going brief project description. So

going for says the resilient city combining district. This was created in response to the 2017 wildfires. And then additionally, the resilient city development is recreated for economic and housing needs after some preliminary view from the 2017 wildfires. Both of these ordinances were extended last year to an expression day of the DECEMBER 31st. 2024 this project when the consists integrating these existing rules resilient city sections into our city code. This consisted of a lot of staff working groups, a community survey circulation of the public draft or the ordinances and then planning Commission recommendation. And then now the council approval. So some background for this this falls within 2 different categories for council. So first falls are going to come to goes to increase housing, reduce homelessness and promote economic development. And then it is also part of the council strategic work Plan for fiscal year 2020 for 2025. That includes the Presidio economic development as well as the piece about adopting codifying the resilient City development measures. Additionally, this is to anticipate community needs in the event of a future disasters and any changing economic conditions and also addressed some of our housing element programs in our general plan. And for annual reporting that we do. This project has been placed into 4 categories to make it easier to understand. Interview these categories are resilient city standards, process stream. I

mean, can on my and zoning code consistency. Supervising planner Amy Nicholson will be explaining the 4 categories for you off. >> right. Thank you, Christian and good evening. Vice mayor staff and members of the council. So really the most substantial changes are reflected in the resilient city standards. And as the council recalls in us as Christian briefly summarized, we created the Resilient City standards following the Tubbs Fire in 2017. This at the standards apply on a parcel specific basis. And so currently there are properties within the Fountain Grove, Hidden Valley Coffey Park area, which have a resilient city, combining district overlay and in 2020 following the glass fire, we did some rezoning to incorporate those properties into this district. The new approach which is outlined in the draft ordinance before you strengthens the city's ability to respond to future hazards in a few ways. One of which is just removing this requirement to actually apply this combining district to specific parcels allow for these resiliency standards to be applied. Citywide following a hazard. The other piece of that is either the federal state or local government needs to declare an emergency for these streamlined standards to take effect. As proposed. The standards would apply for a period of 6 years. If the property actually develops prior to 6 years with the primary structure than the streamlines standards would no longer be up like a ball. This slide outlines a number of the different topics that would be incorporated in this new

chapter of the zoning code. And I'm not going to go into all of them. I just want to briefly highlight a few that are new. One is the addition of some streamlining provisions for our historic districts. The city currently has 8 and these standards were written in 2017 to really apply to the fire areas, which did not include any of these districts. So as a part of this proposal to be forward thinking we're including standards for our preservation districts in addition to properties that are abutting creeks. Change relates to temporary housing. So this was mentioned earlier this evening. Currently the zoning code allows for 2 different types of temporary housing. One is for people that were impacted by the 2017 2020 fires individuals and also those properties. In addition to a different type of temporary housing that is really allowed on a citywide basis that isn't tied to any sort of recovery effort. So based on a lot of the feedback that staff has received from members of the community and also staff, we are recommending a change related to temporary housing. So in this ordinance we would be allowing temporary housing for a period of 3 years following a hazard and it would be specific to those properties that were impacted by a hazard and also for individuals that were displaced as a result of that hazard. Next, I'd just like to discuss process streamlining and how that would be incorporated into the city zoning code. These provisions actually come from the resilient city Development measures ordinance which was adopted about 6 months after

the Tubbs Fire in 2017. And the goal of this ordinance was to address housing needs and economic needs on a citywide basis here. We've added the new type of director level design review for smaller scale housing projects. So typically a duplex or half plex unit would go to the city zoning administrator for review with this proposal. This could be acted on by the directors of this is just more streamlined process to get those housing units that we need. In addition, we would be. Incorporating existing process which allows for have more streamline major design review process. So typically projects better, 10,000 square feet or more would go to the city's design review board. This is bit of a longer process and does take some more staff time. And so as a part of the original Resilient City ordinance adopted 2018. Staff made some changes and said. We really need to address multifamily housing hotel and child care centers within the city and propose that these be streamlined within our priority development areas to these are 5 specific areas in the city and I have a slide that speaks to that more later. So we found that this actually been quite successful. Many developers have taken advantage of this more streamlined process. And we've seen really large increase and our housing production during this period of time. So there are really any changes proposed here except that instead all right. I should say when the project is presented to the city zoning administrator, instead of the design Review board, there is a member of the Design Review board that would be required

to be present during that meeting. And so that just helps to provide the continuity of the Design Review board's feedback in the process. We are also expanding the streamlined design review process to affordable housing This would apply citywide not just within the city's priority development areas. And this more details are shown here on the slide. But essentially these projects would need to be 100% affordable and deed restricted. 2 other areas that we are continuing with. This update include changes to approved projects. So this allows for the director to approve changes instead of going to the zoning administrator, which is, again, just a bit more of a streamlined process. We still do provide notification to residents who MAY wish to weigh in on these changes. And then finally we do proposed reduced permitting requirements, continue for the land use is shown on the slide here. So these are still going through a planning review process. But again, it's just more more streamlined. The next section relates to economic vitality. And so really quickly, we did as a part of the last ordinance include Provisions that allowed for our temporary uses to continue for a longer period of time. So one example might be farmers markets or vehicle sales. Typically those would be restricted to a certain number of days. And so we increase the number of days where those temporary uses are allowed as as a part of this

ordinance that would continue. Some major changes came in with mobile food, vending or mobile food facilities. I will just highlight a few of but we have based again. Staff feedback and feedback from the community added some changes that should hopefully create more compatibility and more clarity for mobile food vendors. And then finally there is a memorial is a shun of some automatic extensions. We provided to various subdivision projects that were impacted by that abstinence fires. This is not any additional extension. This is really memorializing something that to place a number of years ago and is really there for recordkeeping purposes. And then finally, the last category is really just highlighting various other changes that are required in the zoning code. So that. Everything is is correct. You can follow the trail and all these changes can be implemented. I guess I do have one more slide here and it relates to definitions. There are a number of definitions that are being proposed. It critical that when applying the zoning code, it's everyone understands what means what this really is important for the new resilient city standards. This graphic here. I alluded to this earlier shows the city's priority development areas. They are focused really in center of the city and these are parts of town where there mark goods and services and and more access to public transportations. This is really where the city is focusing our our housing

efforts. Lastly, there is an ordinance before you that is related to a zoning map amendment. So this is just memorializing what I spoke to earlier. It would remove the resilient city combining district from just over 8,000 parcels. A note is that there are because there are properties that currently have the zoning district. We wanted to be clear that they would still be eligible for these rebuilding measures for the period of time that's indicated on the slide. And within the tubs. Fire we wanted to. We actually sent a letter to property owners who have not react, rebuilt just so that they were aware that the standards are set to expire DECEMBER of next year. And with that, hand the presentation back over to Christian. This project received public comment and a variety of ways. This is a summary of some of the comments we receive from public comments directly on. >> This item from the Design Review board and Public Planning Commission additional types of outreach methods. We did receive public comment. We're through the survey that was conducted and the summer 2023 staff also conducted developer outreach in JULY of 2023, both about the ordinances and about our streamlined design review process. We also circulated the public draft of this ordinance earlier this year in JUNE. Staff also received public comment from the outreach plans based on our website and social media stock also sent letters to those had every bill just as Amy said, for the Times, nuns in glass fires. And then we also received some calm about temporary housing permits and some letters were sent to those permit holders. And lastly, staff has also done some outreach to the center as a Metro Chamber and the North Coast Builders exchange about these ordinances. The public comments mainly receive around

temporary housing and parking within the city. Staff previously went to the Coastal Heritage Board and SEPTEMBER of 2023. And we also unable to get further comment this year due to lack of Corum for the Cultural Heritage Board. The comments received. Creating a streamlined process for has for properties affected by a that was previously mentioned by Amy. That was added in this ordinance and then also providing a few other methods for contributors contributors and what MAY happen if a large portion of the district is affected. Additionally staff had gone to the Design Review Board in JULY 2023 and AUGUST 2024, this was cover. The station was largely around the streamlined design review process, feeling that it MAY not be a necessary process for these projects and expressing that derby is not a hindrance to receiving approval. They also understand agree with the meeting, the rebuilding measures for properties affected by hazards happy with the addition of a DR. Be member being part of this. Your mind is an interview process with the zoning administrator. This one to planning Commission in SEPTEMBER this year, planning commission recommended the project to council with no comments or requests to changes. The 3 ordinances have been reviewed in compliance with the conference our Mental Polity Act and have been found and exempt. Pursuant to the following Siegel sections of oil and government code sections. It is recommended by the Planning Commission and the Planning and Economic Development Department that the council introduced an ordinance zoning code text amendment after 20 35 changes

related to chapter 20 that 16 Resilient City development after. And sarin section 20 dash 28, one hundred's resilient City, combining district to introduce an ordinance for a zoning cannot amendment to reclassify over 1000 parcels of the zoning map to remove the resilient city, combining district. And then 3 introduce an ordinance for the city code text amendment for a title 19 to have the first and second has been fired. Tentative map extensions. We available for questions and my information is listed here as well. Thank you. Christian, thank you very much. And thank you very much. The entire department for the very large amount of work that went into reviewing. >> These resiliency measures with that, I'll bring it back to council for any questions you MAY have. Kuzma Rogers. Thank you, MR. Acting mayor. >> he just quick question. I know when we originally had the pga's and the resilience of discussion, they also overlaps with the federal Opportunity Zones have the opportunity zone sunset at the federal level at this point or is there still some? Lingering interplay between all of them? >> Thank you, councilmember. That is a great question that I do not have the answer to, but we can certainly research that. >> Impacts much in terms of keeping the resilient city ordinance moving. But I do know that it was a critical, critical component of trying to get projects, have their financing workout the way that they interact between the 3 of them. So if you could should email the council, let us know. Absolutely. Councilmember funding. >> Are you ready for your? Ready for your? Didn't you get

about an and then no. >> All right. With that rushing open the public hearing, wait, I haven't got to do this before. City clerk. >> Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 16.2. If you'd like to provide comment but have not yet provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You have 3 minutes and a countdown. Timer will alert at the end of that period. The first public comment will be from. Please go ahead. >> Ready when you are. Should never tell former infantry men that my name is doing to I'm from Roseland. It's definitely an important thing that we had this resiliency ordinance for a while to get positive things done. One of the things I think is important also, there be a time limit on some of these conditional use permit and temporary use permits. People over in the Roseland area actually used the benefits of the resilient city ordinance for the victims of the fires, the tubs and none fires and then didn't act upon what they promised during conditional use permits. The city doesn't have enough inspectors and enough other staff to perhaps go after these folks who essentially have already gone past the conditional use permit time limits, not done what they said they would do to get those conditional use permits. And now look at the possibility they'll be given a lifetime exemption and they'll be able to just go with this idea of. Everything is good because we've got these new resiliency ordinance guidelines like almost all of

it. I just know that there are players out there in the development world that are not as forthright and honest as we would like them to be, especially for you. Public officials making decisions based upon already exist. And conditional use permits and temporary conditional use permits which now it appears will be allowed to become permanent when they should have been reviewed and perhaps ended if the stipulations of the permit or not acted upon. Thank you for your time. >> Thank u next speaker. Please go ahead. >> Good Evening Council. I just had a question because I did see during the presentation that the planning Commission and the Cultural Heritage Board and the Planning Department were in frequent correspondents. And so. >> Previously I brought to your attention that your senior planner was married to the chair of the Cultural Heritage Board. So I just want to ensure, although she resigned in JUNE, but there's no conflicts PRESIDENT There. As far as the zoning amendments. I've had great concerns. I've been helping the business owners to organize in Roseland and there's a lot of vendors from outside of the area that are popping up and not as taking away from business from the local. So I'm hoping that this will be a step in the right direction to have things be more streamlined. And so I do thank you visiting this on the agenda. >> Thank you, Vice mayor. You see no one else approaching the podium on this item. >> All right. With that will close public comment. And we'll bring it back to council for any final comments. Just added a quick comment to thank you again for a large amount of work the year. But with this, we're preserving reserving some of streamlining and some of the process improvements for the city that would that we put into placed

first with resiliency measures. But at the same time, bringing back some of some some control that the city once again with certain aspects of the planning process. This is is tedious and thankless work. But but thank you for going through it. And with that councilmember Thank you. Vice Mayor. >> I'd like to bring an ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Rosa Mending title, 19 subdivisions of the center city to add sections. 19 dash, 2, 8 dot to 7, 0 19 dash 2, 8, dot to 8, 2, 7, 0, Excuse all start with the numbers again sections. 19 Dash, 2, 8 to 7, 0 19 Dash, 2, 2, 8, 0, file number pr, day 2, 3 Dash, 0, 1, 0, to add the first and second tubs. Nuns fire tentative map extensions in a way for the reading of the text. Second. >> We motion made councilmember farming and as a second made the council City clerk. >> One moment, I was expecting them to go in order of ordinance. One ordinance to an ordinance 3. And so just a moment like my vote, my apologies. I can go back and do it that way. Can be a moment. You know, I'm happy to it. >> Move accordingly. One moment. That was this motion by Fleming and a second by. Thank you. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember Rogers, I councilmember Okapi is absent councilmember MacDonald. I councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember Alvarez is absent. Vice mayor stop time. And council member or Mayor Rogers is absent. Let the record show this passes for affirmative votes. >> Thank you, MADAM City clerk with that on to item 17.1. >> It took posed by mayor. We have to take motions on the additional 2 ordinance is ordinance. One revised calling

myself. And thank you for your patience. >> the agenda that I'm working with is bouncing around. So pull up the first one. Okay. This should MADAM Clerk at the first >> just to note, it is the rim by staff uploaded a revised ordinance earlier today in Republic. The title stay the same. I just wanted to indicate that the adoption is on the revised ordinance. Okay. I can toggle back and forth with that said stop me from reading the wrong one. About that, >> Bring an ordinance of the council, the city of Santa Rosa, many total, 20 of the center of the city code at chapter 20 dash, 3, 5, resilient City standards. Remove 20 dash, 1, 6, resilient city development measures incorporate multiple sections of chapter 20 dash 16 in-depth, local zoning code sections update multiple sections of the zoning code and removed Section 20 dash 28, 1, 0, 0, Resilient City, combining district final number p r j. 2, 3, Dash, 0, 1, 0, way for the reading of the text. Second. >> We have a motion by COUNCILMAN Funding a second by Councilmember Rogers. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I Councilmember Okrepkie steps and Councilmember MacDonald. I councilmember Fleming. I Councilmember Alvarez is absent. Vice Mayor stop. I? And Councilmember Mayor Rogers is absent. Let the record show this passes for affirmative votes. Read enough. The second one. This is number 2 ordinance of the council. The city center is adopting a zoning code map amendment to

reclassify 8,383 parcels on the zoning map to remove the resilient city, combining districts in order to expand and implement Santa Rosa. >> Resilient initiatives filed number p r j. 2, 3 Dash, 0, 1, 0 way for the reading of the text. Second. >> Council refining second by COUNCILMAN Rogers. >> Thank you. Councilmember Rogers, I Cup is absent councilmember MacDonald. I councilmember Fleming. I. Bres is absent. Vice Mayor stop. I in Mayor Rogers is absent. Let the record show this past the 4 affirmative votes. For clarification. Is there one more ordinance? Since 3 on here? >> All right. So we can move on now to 2 items. 17.1 are written coming item 17 are written communications item. 71, according Boards, Commissions and committees, a tense report and an item 17 point to the notice of final map. MADAM C, the clerk is as an action need to be taken and that now. >> No, these are received and filed. But we do need to take public comment on these items. Ready for public comment. Thank you. Thank you. We are now taking public comment on item 17, 17.1, 17.2. If you like to provide public comment, please make your way to the podium. You will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. MR. Go ahead. >> Yes, my name is doing the wooden from Roseland. It's nice to see that the final bout for the Rosen village phase One has come forward and will be approved by the same token. Folks sometimes need to keep in mind that. This project itself has been a blight upon Rosen for the last

13 years and then they haven't really interacted with public as to the way they're operating. The things are going to do. It also has been a bit of a bait and switch because the discussion at the beginning of process, which I was involved in, also happen to be involved on the committee. The pick, the developer now moving forward with the out. Did not actually address. The way this is going down. I know that basically been approved. And I know you're thinking, well, you know, water under the bridge. With you as the elected officials. One of the hopes is you'll be able to look at how these things go, especially because of how you've discussed the affordable housing components. And earlier matter and make sure that that stuff gets done. We were told that this was going to be a project in which affordable housing would take priority. But it turns out market rate housing is one of the main things they're doing and they're looking at the affordable housing. Plus, a promise library as secondary and almost super full U.S. That library branch was supposed to be a part of the agreement. That's why I always felt so disappointed. By the way, this bait and switch went down. So now that you give them this opportunity, hopefully when phase 2 comes forward, it will hold their feet to the original agreement. Thank you. >> Thank you. Vice Mayor. See no one else wishing to speak

on public comments for item 17. >> Thank you. With that move on to item 18 public comment non agenda matters. This will be our only public comment period for the evening on non agenda matters. MADAM City clerk. Moment, please. >> We are now taking public comments on item 18 non agenda matters. If you've previously submitted your speaker card under item 14, please make your way to the podium. This is a time when any person who has not previously addressed the council under public comments on non agenda matters MAY dress council. Not listed on the agenda, but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council. Please make your way to the podium. Speaker. Go ahead. >> Good Earlier Councilmember Rogers said the floor as full of bull s# # # . So I'd like allow you to correct yourself with thoughtful statement that you made so older referred back to when you were campaigning over the summer. Your campaign director Matthew Calaway got in my face and tried to physically assault me. And so I asked him because he was trying to physically assault me what his deal was, why he was a balmy and whether he does you are you do him. So if you found not homophobic, you don't understand MISTER Can you clarify what this has to do with the business of this council does because he spoke to him earlier. Thank you, MR. Stop for the Brown Act violation. >> So there about to I was saying. Are dirty politician, MISTER Rogers. So I found earlier campaign contributions, statements. Why did MISS Fleming Show a $12,500 Cash increase for Sonoma County conservation option? Like what backdoor business dealings are you guys

doing? And then from there you have to select a new mayor and nominated Flemmi. >> To be or no mayor. And should have been Diana MacDonald. You guys are monopolizing your positions on this council. You want to talk about me making comments about your child. I said I hope your baby doesn't turn out to be a white supremacist like you. >> So it's a further correct. The lies that you spread earlier, a measure I those monies when you denied that Jenny Close was your legal representative, our kids, our future, you higher total signers to collect signatures for that measure. They were fraudulent. And then you obtained any close as your attorney. So you want to go ahead and lie while you have all these people here to push through your housing project. And so furthermore, when I was going to protest measure I because those monies are going to silence my 40 John Doe's lot. Panel. John, those in a sexual assault case who are raped up boys and Girls Club. As I've told you, my wife father was involved in traffic in those children. You were the communications director who also silence those children. So what are you doing? You're obviously not a bipoc advocate. You are ok with children being raped and not to be in silence. So guess what, this one's from me. And this one's from my late mother. I'm out. Go yourself, bro. Thank you, speaker. The next podium. Go ahead. >> Well, that's a fun one to follow. >> My name is Bill Count Service and I'm here on behalf of Sylmar construction as well as a number of other builders.

For the last 2 hours, I listening into discussions about building and housing here in Santa Rosa and I currently operating approximately 12 building sites. My comment today to the council is the problems we're having in the building department, primarily the building inspection. I understand if I'm understanding correctly that there is a hiring freeze on. But when we took out our building permit, we paid substantial fees and we expected to be able to have reasonably timely inspections currently I filed for an inspection today and it was set for NOVEMBER 27th. That's over 2 weeks from now. And trying to run multiple construction sites and trying to plan how to get my drywall inspected. When I haven't even put most of my plumbing, electrical is very difficult, especially in the case, were if we MISS That inspection where there's a problem with that were out another 2 weeks to ask the council to look at. Taking a some action to get more inspectors or changing the way that the inspections are done. House and on the county allows inspections. We're just we're kind of dying on the vine here. I've heard quite a bit about building houses, but if we can't get them inspected, it doesn't do a lot of good. It's just killing us. And I would very

much like. You know, some relief from that. So I thank you for your time. It's been entertaining to say the least. And y'all have a good night. >> Thank you. Vice Mayor, MR. De what? >> use the overhead again, if I MAY think okay. >> Hello. My name is doing he would not want to. >> Thank the Natalie Rogers and the assistant or the vice Mayor Mark Stapp and City Council member Eddie Alvarez for coming to yesterday's Veterans Day celebration here at the city hall. Also want to thank the police color guard that came another police officials that were there and the recreation and parks people. Basically rain or shine. We go on and the city of Saint Rose has been sponsoring this now for a while. So we're very glad that you've been doing that. I also wanted to tell you about something really important from the discussions earlier. That's that veterans honored. Also glad that you were there and they honor you at the same time. We're hoping that perhaps you could begin to look into something that the housing authority as a bit of an influence in. And that is that the city of Santa Rosa overseas, what are called vouchers, those are housing and urban development, Veterans Affairs, supportive housing vouchers, the city over season for the entire county. And there's hundreds of veterans who live in the supported types of homes. Now one of the things that was brought out at the Housing Authority meeting on the 28th

of OCTOBER was that there's actually 95 of dashed out years currently open and available and yet we're not able to get these people into these places. There's a opportunity now that you could be using these for project based financing. You've talked a lot tonight about how you want to be getting more housing going. This is an opportunity in which if you use the vouchers, there's actually stable economic base to go forward and get housing. I would suggest to be in the downtown core area. Now here upon this overhead, bicycle strategy was put together in 2011 and downtown Copenhagen, Denmark, these bikers riding in to downtown weaving in the outer areas. They basically have what they call the rhythm of the street and they look deeply into how you basically plan the areas and make what they call an intelligent transportation system. The opportunities exist here with downtown Santa Rosa, where you get a whole lot more housing down here in this core area. And it's been talked about for 30 years. Now is the time to try to get it done. You'll be facing headwinds, as was mentioned earlier, the next federal administration MAY not be as kind as this last one was to our community. Knowing all of you have your mindset on this. So please keep on keeping on for more housing in downtown Santa Rosa with veterans. Thank you. Kindly. Thanks, Mary c no one else approaching the Putin's for public comment.

>> Thank you, MADAM City We have no closed, no remaining closed session items. We will move on to a German adjourned this evening. >> In honor of Detective on Andrews assistant city manager Dunston. Thank you very much for the suggestion. Detective Andrew, sir, for 20 years on Santa Rosa's police force he retired in 2002 was a police technician, worked his way up through the ranks, went to academy, eventually served as a narcotics detective in a violent crimes. Detective retired in 2022. We send our thoughts and our prayers to his family. With that. We're