HAC Minutes-2000-10-26MEMORANDUM January 26,2001
TO: George Scarborough, City Manager
FROM: Thomas Tomlinson, Planning Directoe
SUBJECT: Housing Advisory Committee Actions of October 26, 2000
This report summarizes actions taken by the Housing Advisory Committee on October 26,
2000 No action is required unless Council wishes to hold special review of an item.
Commission Attendance
Present: Marie Buckner, Joann de Guevara, Jessica Dean, Ed Johnson, Ethel
Tregarthen, Maryrose Winkler
Absent: Michelle Krrorre (excused)
Staff Present: Lynnette Adolphson, Management Analyst II
Thomas Tomlinson, Planning Director
A. m - Chairman Buckner called the meeting to order at 7:08 p.m.
B ORAL CUUNICATIONS - None.
C MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 20.2000 - Approved as submitted.
D NEW BUSINESS
Consideration (General Plan
y of San Juan Capistrano3 - Mr. Tomlinson provided a staff
presentation noting that the State of California requires cities to update their
General Plan Housing Elements every five years and that the deadline for submittal
of the adopted General Plan is December 31, 2000 The purpose of the update is
to incorporate the revised Regional Housing Needs Assessment (“RHNA)))
allocatrons for new construction of affordable housing units for inclusion in the City’s
five-year housing program. The RHNA distributes the regional affordable housing
needs by Jurisdiction based upon census Information Mr. Tomlinson indicated that
the proposed Housing Element Incorporates the City’s new RHNA allocatrons of
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very low, low, moderate, and above housing units for the next five years based upon
1990 Census data. Staff noted that the Housing Element had also been
reformatted to be consistent with the newly-adopted General Plan.
Mr. Tomlinson explained that the new General Plan included sufficient land set
aside to accommodate the RHNA allocation of affordable units. However, due to
the delay by SCAG’s Regional Council in adopting the new RHNA allocations, staff
could not update the Housing Element when amending all other elements of the
General Plan during 1999.
Staff explained that the draft Housing Element was sent to the State of California
for comments following the Committee’s review on February 24, 2000, and that the
state responses had been included. It was further noted that the newly-adopted
General Plan designates property for new rental construction and that the City is
currently working with the property owner for acquisition of the land.
Committee discussion ensued with Member Winkler noting that she did not support
smaller lots. However, Member Johnson stated that because larger lots are more
costly, they are not affordable to low and very-low income households. A question
arose regarding the reference on page 33 of the draft Housing Element referring to
San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, and Laguna Beach as the lone cities
representing South County. Mr. Tomlinson explained that because other areas of
South County were not incorporated, these three cities were isolated from cities in
the north portion of the county. Thus, due to this isolation, it was not possible to
build homeless facilities that were convenient or accessible.
Member Dean inquired about whether the City had received comments on the draft
Housing Element from any of the advocacy groups. Mr. Tomlinson advised that
several groups had requested, and received, notification of the meeting, but that no
one was present to speak.
More discussion ensued in support of new rental construction. Staff advised that
the proposed street changes at Oso Road and Camino Capistrano will result in a
much safer situation, although traffic counts do not show a problem in that area.
There being no further discussion, the Committee unanimously forwarded the draft
Housing Element to the Planning Commission and City Council with a
recommendation of approval.
E COMMITTEKTAFF COMMENTS - None
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F. ADJOURNMENT- There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at
8:30 p.m.
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Lynr/ette Adolphson, Secretary, Housing Advisory Committee
DATE APPROVED: February 21,200l
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