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Title: HAVING MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LOW DENSITY AREAS

Official Summary: Additional housing units built after January 1, 2026, on properties zoned for single family homes as of January 1, 2023 shall be permanently affordable to persons of incomes of no more than 100% of Area Median Income, or appropriate fees in lieu paid or equivalent homes off site provided.

This initiative will help ensure that when more development occurs in single-family neighborhoods, it is permanently affordable middle income housing rather than more luxury high priced housing.

Under the new City zoning, people living in single-family neighborhoods can build a cottage or ADU on their lot, or subdivide larger lots and build more houses on land that formerly only allowed a single house.

This initiative would require that, when such new buildings are rented or sold, they must be permanently affordable to persons of 100% of area median income (teachers, healthcare workers, at ~$2550/month currently).

In addition to providing more affordable housing, this initiative will help ensure that such redevelopment projects will not be of interest to real estate investors or big-time developers.

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Title: NEW DEVELOPMENT SHALL PAY ITS OWN WAY

Official Summary: New development or redevelopment that increases demands on city infrastructure shall pay the costs of reasonably maintaining levels of service delivered by such infrastructure, including costs associated with projected long-term climate change. The city council may rebate such payments made by permanently affordable housing units.

This initiative will require that, for all future residential and business/office developments or redevelopments, the developer must pay the City impact fees adequate to pay for 100% of the actual cost of providing the expanded or new infrastructure required to maintain current levels of service.

This would include additional water and sewer rights, reservoirs, treatment plants and pipes as well as police and fire protection adequate to maintain current per person supplies and coverage, street and traffic improvements adequate to prevent increased congestion, roads, parks, recreation facilities and other infrastructure to the development adequate to prevent overcrowding, etc.

If the City Council decides to annex the Planning Reserve land currently in Area III of the Comprehensive Plan, this initiative would ensure that the public would not be responsible for the estimated $1 billion in infrastructure costs required to provide City infrastructure for that area.