Title
Affordable Housing Locational Guidelines
Action
Action:
Approve the Housing and Neighborhood Development Committee's recommendation to replace the Housing Locational Policy with the Affordable Housing Locational Guidelines.
Body
Committee Chair:
LaWana Mayfield, Housing and Neighborhood Development
Staff Resource(s):
Pamela Wideman, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Miles Vaughn, Housing and Neighborhood Services
Current Ordinance
* The current Housing Locational Policy was originally approved by City Council on November 26, 2001, and was last amended on March 28, 2011.
* The policy provides a guide for the development of new, rehabilitated, or converted local, state, or federal subsidized multi-family housing developments designed to serve, in whole or part, households earning 60 percent or less than the area median income (AMI).
* The objectives of the policy are to:
* Avoid undue concentration of subsidized multi-family housing,
* Geographically disperse new multi-family housing developments,
* Support the City's neighborhood revitalization efforts and other public development initiatives, and
* Promote diversity and vitality of neighborhoods.
* The policy establishes permissible and non-permissible areas for the development of new, rehabilitated, or converted subsidized multi-family rental housing developments.
Proposed Changes
* The Affordable Housing Locational Guidelines will guide the selection of housing investments that create or preserve affordable rental housing and workforce rental housing in areas:
* Near employment centers,
* Near commercial, recreational, and social centers,
* Near existing and proposed transit services,
* In Center City, and
* In neighborhoods experiencing rapid demographic change.
* The guidelines will help support the City's revitalization efforts and promote diverse and inclusive neighborhoods. They are also in alignment with the Housing Charlotte Framework that was approved by City Council in August 20...
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