Item J10
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: April 18, 200 I
Division:
BOCC
Bulk Item: Yes
No X
Department: District IV /Nora Williams
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AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval of ~n concerning 20 Year Plan and affordable
housing, specifying that it is a starting point for shaping a policy for the County
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ITEM BACKGROUND: DCA recently held a summit on the issue of affordable housing and has
asked for a statement from each of the local governments concerning affordable housing.
PREVIOUS REVELANT BOCC ACTION: At the March meeting of the BOCC, the Commission
approved a series of comp plan changes/actions to be reviewed by the Development Review
Committee, Planning Commission, DCA and/or the Land Authority Advisory Board as appropriate to
come back to this Board for consideration, in an effort to work toward a long-range plan for affordable
housing and land acquisition.
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COST TO COUNTY: N/A
BUDGETED: Yes
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REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
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Dear Fellow Commissioners:
We have been asked by DCA to provide a statement about our approach/commitment on
the Affordable Housing issue and actions we took at last month's meeting go a long way
toward showing the strides we are making in addressing this issue, I wanted to prepare a
statement for your consideration to make sure that we are all on the same page and that
this represents the general sentiments of the Board,
Note that while the 20 Year Plan that I delivered to you two months ago is mentioned
herein, it is only in the most general sense, Until the carrying capacity study, and
hurricane evacuation report are completed, it is likely that we will continue building at
the rate we are now. But there are big, big policy decisions coming up from this Board
concerning future development and our approach to it And all changes and decisions that
we make will move through the proper planning processes - this is just a starting place,
What I tried to include in this statement are the most general truths that I hope reflect our
sentiments and commitment on this issue. Thanks for any support, changes, and additions
you want to offer.
Best,
Nora
Statement from the Board of County Commissioners
Concernin2 Affordable Housin2:
With our original ROGO sc~eduled to end next year, a hurricane evacuation report that
indicates we are already past the 24 hour limit, and a carrying capacity study right around
the comer, it is impossible to determine precisely what the shape of future development
will be,
In keeping with the tenets espoused in the 20 year plan presented by Commissioner
Williams, which gathers together many of the principles espoused by ~ Commission, . + h
the Board of Monroe County Commissioners is committed to working the other u..J I
municipal governments in the County to address the need for affordable housing by
directing our future development priorities to affordable and modest housing, and by
pooling resources as necessary to address that need.
In addition, the Commission holds that there can be no responsible future development,
even for affordable housing, without an accompanying plan for aggressive land
acquisition to retire those development rights for lands that should not be developed.
In hopes of furthering these goals, the Monroe County Commission is beginning the work
of crafting a long-term plan for the provision of affordable housing and the acquisition of
land over a twenty-year planning horizon. In light of that pursuit, the Board of Monroe
County Commissioners approved, at our March BOCC meeting, moving the following
actions through our Growth Management process (Development Review, Planning
Commission Review, DCA review) or Land Authority process (review by the Land
Authority Advisory Board) to be returned to us for consideration and action:
COMP PLAN AND LDR CHANGES:
· Lower ROGO boundaries for affordable housing and sharing of nutrient credits
· Increase percentage of affordable housing set aside to allow for at least eighty
units to be set aside per year for affordable housing projects.
· Make affordable housing an allowable use on properties zoned suburban
commercial.
· Add ROGO points for no- or low-cost options with real environmental impacts
· Expand donated lots that qualify for ROGO points to include lots in acquisition
areas throughout the County.
· Allow mobile or manufactured homes designed for 150 mph winds on affordable
housing properties
· Create an affordable housing overlay zone
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· Don't allow modest/affordable housing to be replaced by significantly larger,
non-affordable housing, by making "replacement unit" for existing housing
comparable in square footage, if original house was below the square footage
allowances for affordable housing.
· Link any new commercial development to the production of affordable housing,
either physical production of that housing or a monetary cost set-aside,
· Any new multiple-unit market rate residential developments should include a mix
of market-rate and affordable housing and should have caps on square footage to
encourage modest housing.
· Create incentives to encourage the redevelopment of existing commercial space to
affordable housing.
Additional Actions:
· Select a series of appropriate properties for affordable housing projects via
Growth Management, and group together where possible for cost-efficacy
· When those properties are selected for our long-term planning horizon, bond the
half cent of the TDC 4th cent in the amount required for the amount of time
required to purchase those lands now for the purpose of the provision of
affordable housing.
· Expand the Big Pine Key program county-wide that splits cost of subdivision lots
with adjacent or contiguous property-owners (it needs to include "across-the-
street" property-owners too if it still doesn't), leaving ownership of the property
with the property-owner in exchange for a conservation easement (which may
allow limited accessory use) for the County. Win-win-win: retirement of
development right, willing seller, happy adjacent property owner, no future
management costs for the County, retirement of development right.
· Provide preliminary acquisition area list from Growth Management for the larger
acquisition effort to avoid build-out - and makes such a list a standard part of
every CommuniKeys program.
· Place on the Land Authority priority list any lots that come up for sale ;-
appropriate prices that are within those acquisition areas.
· Determine an amount to be set aside each year from the infrastructure sales tax for
land acquisition for the purposes of avoiding build-out
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ST^TE OF FLORID^
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
'Dedicated tg making Florida a berter place to call home'
JEa lUSH
Governor
STEVEN M. SEIIEtT
Sea$ly
APR - 5 2001
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Participants on the Affordable Housing in the Keys Group
FROM:
Nancy Muller
DATE:
3 April 2001
SUBJECT:
New Meeting Date Set - Please Mark Your Calendars
You should have received a letter with the meeting report from the February 22 and 23
meeting in Marathon stating that we would meet again in May. Due Lo a meeting of the
Governor and Cabinet set for the same day as our meeting was scheduled, a newdate,has
been chosen. The new date for this meeting is June 5, 2001. The entire meeting will
occur on June 5, so please set aside all day.
As outlined in the March 8 letter, this is the time that each representative in the group
should be working with her or his local government or organization to determine which
affordable housing strategies you would be willing, not only to support, but pursue
yourselves. We hear that some of the local governments have been meeting toward this
end, and I encourage business representatives to do the same.
As a result of the meeting change, we are now asking you to submit your local government
or organization's written list of strategies to the Department by May 18 at the latest. This will
allow us to compile a document for review by all at the June 5 meeting.
If you have any questions, please call Mike McDaniel or me at (850) 487-4545, or Rebecca
Jetton at (305) 289-2402. Thank you.
cc: S~e and regional team members
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