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ACTION:
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TO: Honorable City Council
FROM: Barry K. Hogan, Community Development Directo
Prepared By: David A. Bobardt, Planning Mana r �7
DATE: December 19, 2006 (CC Special Meeting of 12/20/2006)
SUBJECT: Consider Draft 2006 -2014 Regional Housing Needs Assessment
BACKGROUND
State General Plan law (Government Code §65300 et seq.) requires each City and
County to have a General Plan composed of seven (7) mandatory elements: Land Use,
Circulation, Housing, Noise, Conservation, Open Space, and Safety. These elements,
along with any optional elements adopted by the local agency, form the constitution for
future development within each jurisdiction. While State law allows each local agency
to establish its own goals and policies for most elements, it has established the
availability of housing for every Californian as a statewide goal, and has directed that
each local agency bear responsibility to meet this goal through the Housing Element.
The State Department of Housing and Community Development has the responsibility
for determining existing and projected housing needs for each region in the state for a
given planning period. The regional Council of Governments (SCAG for the six - county
Southern California region) is then responsible for distributing the housing need among
jurisdictions. This distribution is known as the Regional Housing Needs Assessment
(RHNA). Each local agency must then prepare a Housing Element to demonstrate how
that housing need can be achieved, and the Housing Element must be certified by a
certain deadline for the agency's General Plan to be valid.
DISCUSSION
The current planning period for the SCAG region is 2006 to 2014; the deadline for
SCAG to finalize the RHNA distribution for this period is June 2007, and the deadline for
each agency to update the local Housing Element is June 2008. SCAG has taken the
regional housing need of 733,329 housing units and prepared a preliminary draft
distribution among jurisdictions. Of the total units, 28,481 housing units (3.88 %) have
been distributed to the Ventura County subregion. The following table shows the
preliminary distribution among the ten Cities and County for the 2006 -2014 planning
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period, compared to the previous 1998 -2005 planning period, as well as the City and
County staff estimates for development during the 2006 -2014 planning period.
Jurisdiction
1998 -2005
RHNA
% of
County-
wide Total
Draft
2006 -2014
RHNA*
% of
County-
wide Total
2006 -2014
City Dev.
Estimates
% of
County-
wide Total
Camarillo
1800
9.1%
4853
17.0%
3150
13.6%
Fillmore
808
4.1%
608
2.1%
1081
4.7%
Moorpark
1255
6.4%
939
3.3%
1615
7.0%
Ojai
209
1.1%
383
1.3%
144
0.6%
Oxnard
3298
16.7%
7345
25.8%
7000
30.2%
Port Hueneme
254
1.3%
516
1.8%
177
0.8%
Ventura
1950
9.9%
3422
12.0%
3600
15.5%
Santa Paula
1393
7.1%
1856
6.5%
1200
5.2%
Simi Valley
2767
14.0%
5086
17.9%
2417
10.4%
Thousand Oaks
4322
21.9%
1072
3.8%
1400
6.0%
County
1678
8.5%
2401
8.4%
1400
6.0%
TOTAL
19734
100.0%
28481 1
100.0% 1
23184
100.0%
* The Draft RHNA number shown is the target for housing for all income levels. Under the proposed
distribution, Moorpark would be responsible for 209 units affordable to very low income households (less
than 50% of county median household income), 169 units affordable to low income households (between
50% and 80% of county median household income), 194 units affordable to median income households
(between 80% and 120% of county median household income), and 367 units affordable to high income
households (greater than 120% of county median household income).
Community Development staff from several cities in Ventura County have expressed
concern that the draft RHNA distribution bears no relation to what is likely to occur
within the jurisdiction, based on either expected development, natural constraints, and
development policy. As noted in the table, estimated development falls short of the
RHNA for the Ventura County as a whole, although some cities are expecting to meet
the preliminary draft RHNA targets. SCAG staff has made it clear that the RHNA
number for Ventura County as a whole would not be adjusted downward, though they
would consider one appeal from each jurisdiction, based on limited factors specified in
the Government Code (i.e. availability of land, jobs /housing balance, lack of sewer or
water service, lands protected under State or Federal programs, County agricultural
preservation policies for unincorporated areas, agreements between Counties and
Cities to direct growth to Cities, high housing costs, farmworker housing needs, market
demand for housing, and RTP growth distribution), and may redistribute the RHNA
among the Ventura County jurisdictions.
One option allowed by SCAG is for each subregion to take over the responsibility for
distribution of the RHNA. If Ventura County Cities and the County opt for this approach,
distribution of the 28,481 housing units, as well as consideration of appeals, would be
handled by VCOG instead of SCAG. The benefit of this approach, if all ten Cities and
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the County can agree on RHNA distribution, is the provision of certainty in the process;
the RHNA would not be redistributed to any local agency by SCAG based on appeals
from other jurisdictions. The Ventura Council of Governments (VCOG) has been
considering this option. Staff from the ten Cities and Ventura County have also been
working together to try to develop a formula based on a number of different factors
including General Plan capacity, jobs, existing dwelling units, available vacant land, and
recent housing and employment growth. Agreement among staff on the most equitable
formula has not yet been achieved. A meeting with staff and the VCOG Board is
scheduled for January 9, 2007 to try to resolve the differences.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Direct staff as deemed appropriate.