Affordable Housing Advisory Committee

AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE CITY HALL, COUNCIL CHAMBERS 400 NW 73RD AVE PLANTATION, FLORIDA 33317 THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2022 Present: Maude K Bruce, Jon Auerbach, Lynn Stoner, Edwin Cordova, Rick Seraphine, Leticia Achils, Daniel Levitan Absent: Katie Edwards-Walpole, Gretchen Rovira Carole Morris - Board Liaison Jason Nunemaker - CAO Councilmember Fadgen Councilmember Anderson CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL Meeting Called to order by Vice Chair Jon Auerbach APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES May 5, 2022 Meeting Minutes 2022-05-05 Minutes.pdf Motion by Daniel Levitan; seconded by Edwin Cordova to approve the minutes as amended. Motion Passed: 5- 0 Voting For: Jon Auerbach, Edwin Cordova, Maude K Bruce, Rick Seraphine, Daniel Levitan Voting Against: None

NEW BUSINESS 1. Status/Timing Update - Carole Morris, Assistant City Administrator Mrs. Morris explained the process to submit the annual report, the status and timeline schedule with dates to ensure the annual report is filed by December of 2022. This information would be included in the PowerPoint presented by Mr. Holmes. 2. Accessory Dwelling Units Presentation and Discussion - Dan Holmes, Director, Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Mr. Holmes provided a brief presentation regarding the eleven strategies for affordable housing that the board members should follow, 2022 annual report timeline and the explanation of accessory dwelling units. He noted there were three strategies completed and strategy number 5 & 6 would be discussed during the meeting. The AHAC strategy meetings were set for the 1st Thursday of each month in March through September. AHAC finalization of the draft report is due on October 6th. October 19th is the date that the advertisement for a public hearing is due. AHAC strategies approval and the public hearing are due by November 3 rd, and submittal of the report to Council and Florida Housing is due by November 30th. There are several types of proposals that the city looks at that could impact affordable housing, such as, to create and preserve affordable housing units, reduce barriers to new supply, helping households access and afford private market homes and protect against displacement and poor housing conditions. He discussed the reason why cities care about accessory dwelling units, the common types of units, the number of units that have been developed and rules that discourage ADUs. An accessory dwelling unit is adding an additional unit on a single-family lot. Mr. Auerbach – Why would the additional ADUs be considered affordable, when it is just adding density? Mr. Holmes – You are creating more supply in an area and with a greater supply verse demand this will help bring down the overall cost to that area. Also the cost of land is not much of a cost when you add a small unit on the single family lot. Mr. Auerbach – This would represent an investment to the homeowner, where they can invest capital in construction of the additional dwelling unit. Which the homeowners would be taxed and pay impact/other fees associated with adding a structure to their property. Mr. Holmes - Correct. Impact fees are one of the strategies that we were asked to look at by the state. Mayor Stoner – BCPA offers a granny flat exemption which will take away some of the tax base. It maybe time to ask for an updated version of the exemption because the housing market has changes tremendously in the last decade. Ms. Bruce – Were arrangements made with specific banks to fund the ADUs?

Mr. Holmes - That's a very good question, during the conference I attended in California, when different cities presented on this item, they noted that one of the things that was needed to consider is the terms of loans for accessory dwelling units. A lot of California banks provide incentives on loans for ADUs. Meeting and talking with local lending institutes is a very important part of that overall strategy. ADU Presentation - June 2022.pdf 3. Parking/Setback Reductions as a Strategy - Dan Holmes, Director, Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Mr. Holmes gave a short presentation on the parking/setback reduction strategy. The parking strategy falls under reducing barriers to new supply. Parking consumes a major portion of developed property and typically the parking is equal to or in excess of the land devoted to the building it serves. One acre of land can hold about 125 parking spaces, fewer if major landscape and screening are provided. Assuming 120 parking spaces and $500,000 per acre the land cost are about $4200 per space. There are studies that show many cities are requesting too much parking, and our parking codes are stuck in the 70s and 80s. A lot of dynamics have changed and we do not need a lot of parking as we once needed. Parking cost are a large but invisible cost of development. When you reduce the amount of parking you will have additional acres you can accommodate additional units for development. Traditional setback requirements can make it impossible to build multiple smaller units on a single parcel, including accessory dwelling units. Mr. Auerbach stated Downtown Fort Lauderdale RAC area is parking exemption and their code requires zero parking. In every case any building that is built, the developer has determined the amount of parking that is needed and that has been successful. The code does not have to dictate the amount of parking. Has the city experienced not having enough parking spaces when it comes to townhouse projects? Mr. Holmes - We do not have many insistences that has happened but there was one development, however, the name escapes me right now. Mr. Auerbach - Have there been any complaints from residents about not having enough parking is provided whether for residential or commercial properties? Mr. Holmes - There have not been any complaints from our residents regarding commercial property. There have not been a lot for residential as well. Mr. Cordova - You mentioned there are different types of ADUs. Are there any regulations on adding second floors or garages converting into ADUs in the city? Mr. Holmes - We do not allow accessory dwelling, however we do accept a guest or pool houses accessory use that is within the code. There are many limitations on that use as an accessory dwelling unit. Our city code limits garage conversions and these are the things we need to talk about if the board is interested in doing so.

OLD BUSINESS None OTHER BUSINESS/DISCUSSIONS Mr. Auerbach – I went to a council meeting and there were several comments made about affordable housing. I want encourage the board members to go back and listen to the meeting regarding what the public and Council were saying about the 8601 project. They were proposing some affordable units and market units, all additional supply allows the market to balance itself out. Why are the 8601 project and the topic of affordable housing connected? This could be a point of discussion for the board. How is affordable housing a component to the developments? Mayor Stoner – I mentioned that everyone needs to reach out to their Councilmember regarding affordable housing. It was interesting that not one Councilmember asked the developer to provide more than 20 affordable housing units, which they would have willingly done, but they weren't asked. They didn't get to hear your voice regarding affordable housing. Also, the properties that you were shown last meeting are not all available as some are our parks. Our parks are not available for development for affordable housing. We are tasked with eleven strategies and your knowledge is extremely important and needed. Mr. Holmes – It is going to take a lot of education and the next phase for us is to educate the public so we can move the affordable housing agenda forward. If we can go through our comprehensive plan exercise, we can probably can identify those parcels and do some type of overlay zoning on those. PUBLIC COMMENTS None ADJOURNMENT Meeting adjourned at 6:02pm