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I-10 freeway, frontage to truck traffic with the site adjacent to a truck court Council of Carpenters - Mitchell Tsai, an attorney for Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, said the City should require the use of a local skilled and trained workforce for development projects in the City, and he recommended the City continue the item until the public could directly address the City Council Comments Received After the Deadline Housing Element Questions- Ed Bonadiman raised questions about the document presented, including, will City -owned property be included in this Housing Element, how were parcels that were included in the proposed zone change selected? When will the community and landowners be offered an opportunity to provide their opinion? Industrial Zoned Properties - Alan and Robin Gotta, longtime property owners on Iowa Street, expressed concern with the City's move to rezone certain parcels They purchased their property within the EV/IC zoning, with the intent that the Industrial Zoning would one day encourage a buyer to help them towards their retirement, and now they are worried the City may rezone their parcels STUDY SESSION - 6th CYCLE HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE Development Services Director Desatnik explained tonight's study session was intended to give Council an opportunity to ask questions and offer comments on the selection of potential housing sites for the City's Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) inventory Planning staff and the City's consultant, Michael Baker International, have been working on the Housing Element Update since Fall of last year Director Desatnik gave an overview and presentation of the Housing Element Update, which is a required element of the General Plan State law requires that every jurisdiction regularly updates its Housing Element At the local level the Housing Element allows each city to prepare a community -specific approach to "how" and "where" housing will be addressed to meet the needs of the community and Redlands is currently on an 8-year cycle for its Housing Element Update The current 6th Cycle Housing Element Update program will cover the period from 2021 through 2029 Community outreach was conducted, which included an online survey (almost 300 responses received), eleven stakeholder interviews, two community meetings open to the public, and two study sessions with the Planning Commission Topic areas covered and detailed were Housing Element Content, Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), California Department of Housing & Community Development (HCD) Reviews RHNA Sites, RHNA Density Requirements, City's Identified RHNA Capacity, The Importance of Housing Element Certification, HCD Incentives and Consequences of Housing Element Non-compliance He reviewed the RHNA Inventory and how the City would reach that goal Included were sites identified as either vacant or underutilized, accessory dwelling units (ADUs), recently entitled projects and pending projects He added the City must always maintain enough sites to meet the RHNA numbers dunng the planning period and there could be some senous penalties if this was not maintained The State strongly encourages a buffer, so a 20% buffer is applied to protect the City from the need to rezone during the planning period Utilizing a site inventory Webmap, he identified land inventory that was broken down by income levels and density Sites requiring some sort of zone change in order to make them available for RHNA were highlighted, and he stated it was not currently feasible for the City to meet the RHNA targets without looking at some commercial and industrial properties for rezoning Land located east of the 210 Freeway and land situated in the East Valley Corridor, south of the drainage channel, were considered properties that could easily transition to residential or mixed use He stressed the State was giving high priority to housing program areas such as ADUs, affirmatives furthering fair housing, constraint removal, education and RHNA A project schedule provided for the goal of adopting the Housing Element Update by the end of this year Mayor Banch raised questions concerning the initiative petition currently circulating which will come before Council next month, and he inquired if the City will be in violation of local growth measures Director Desatnik explained staff will analyze the proposed initiative ordinance closely and include this Special CC_June 29, 2021 Page 2