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Morgan Welcome & Agenda Community M o C A M o C A Association Mandatory Housing Affordability Cliffs Notes version Mandatory Housing Affordability overview How to read the maps Additional Observations The Grand


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Welcome & Agenda

Mandatory Housing Affordability “Cliffs Notes” version

Mandatory Housing Affordability overview How to read the maps

Additional Observations

The Grand Bargain Neighborhood Plans

Maps on the tables

We are volunteers who want to help our neighbors understand what is being proposed. Please do not shoot the messengers.

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Morgan Community Association

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City of Seattle Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA)

a program of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda

November 29, 2016

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30,000

new market-rate homes

20,000

affordable homes

In the next 10 years:

  • Critical to expand

housing options to meet growing demand

  • Continue growth in

urban centers

  • Reduce permitting

barriers

  • Maximize efficient

construction methods

  • Provide incentives for

family-sized housing

  • Net new rent- and income-

restricted homes

  • Includes new construction and

acquisition rehab

  • About 3x current production
  • New and expanded public and

private resources

  • Funding programs primarily

serve ≤ 60% AMI households

  • Incentive programs primarily

serve 60% to 80% AMI households

The HALA goal

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Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA)

What is MHA and how does it work?

See handout “Mandatory Housing Affordablity (MHA)” AKA ”the Grand Bargain”

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What is MHA?

Growth with affordability

  • All new multifamily and commercial development must either

build or pay into a fund for affordable housing

  • Provides additional development capacity to partially offset the

cost of these requirements (zoning changes)

  • Increases housing choices
  • A state-approved approach other local cities have used

AKA ”the Grand Bargain”

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$1,641 = average rent (all units)

Market Rents and Affordable MHA Rents

  • ne-bedroom unit

Sources: Dupre+Scott Apartment Advisors, Apartment Vacancy Report, 20+ unit buildings, Fall 2016, Seattle-14 market areas; WA Employment Security Department, Occupational Employment & Wage Estimates, Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA MD, 2014.

$1,989 = average rent (new construction) $1,009 = rent for an MHA home

60% of Area Median Income (AMI) Affordable for:

  • Administrative assistant
  • A couple earning minimum wage
  • Elementary school teacher

MHA and affordability

See handout “AMI & Affordable Housing” defined”

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EXISTING Voluntary Incentive Zoning for affordable housing (IZ) PROPOSED Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) Existing Voluntary Incentive Zoning area Proposed Mandatory Housing Affordability area Potential Urban Village Expansion area Manufacturing & Industrial Center

A citywide program

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Principles to Guide MHA Implementation

How the MHA Principles inform the draft zoning maps

See handout “Principles for MHA Implementation”

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Core principles

  • MHA goal is at least 6,000 affordable

homes in the next 10 years

  • Create affordable housing
  • pportunities throughout the city
  • Expand housing options in existing

single-family zones within urban villages

  • Expand the boundaries or urban

villages to allow more homes near good transit

  • Evaluate MHA implementation using a

social and racial equity lens

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Principles that guided zoning changes

  • Encourage a wide variety of housing sizes, including

family- sized homes.

  • Plan for transitions between higher- and lower-scale zones

as additional development capacity is accommodated.

  • Consider locating more housing near neighborhood assets

and infrastructure such as parks, schools, and transit.

  • Consider local urban design priorities when making zoning

changes

  • Urban Village Expansion 10-minute walk to transit
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Putting MHA into effect

Zoning and urban village boundary changes

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What is zoning?

Residential Small Lot (RSL) Lowrise (LR1) Lowrise (LR3) Neighborhood Commercial (NC-75)

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MHA zone changes – typical

See handout “Guide to Housing Options” Details at the tables with the maps

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Reading the MHA maps

Zoning changes to implement MHA

See the handout map for your area See handout “How to Read the Maps”

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Draft MHA zoning maps

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Map legend

at the top of the draft zoning map

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Where MHA applies

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existing zoning | draft zoning

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Hatched areas

  • Change from one zoning type to another

(e.g., Multifamily to Neighborhood Commercial)

  • A change other than a typical amount

(e.g., Single Family to Lowrise 1)

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Draft MHA zoning maps

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What do zoning changes mean?

Zoning does not require someone to change or develop their property Residential Small Lot (RSL)

  • Cottages, townhouses, duplexes/triplexes similar in scale

to single family zones

  • More flexibility for wider range of households
  • 1 dwelling unit per 2,000 sq ft of lot area
  • Allowed to reconfigure an existing home into multiple

units

  • Owners may also choose ADUs/DADUs (not subject to

MHA)

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Residential Small Lot (RSL)

5,000 sq ft lot 1 existing home plus 1 new home 1 unit or $22K for aff. housing

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Residential Small Lot (RSL)

5,000 sq ft lot 1 existing home plus 1 new home 1 unit or $22K for aff. Housing {.07 unit or $22K for aff. Housing}

X

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Welcome & Agenda

Mandatory Housing Affordability “Cliffs Notes” version

Mandatory Housing Affordability overview How to read the maps

Additional Observations

The Grand Bargain Neighborhood Plans

Maps on the tables

We are volunteers who want to help our neighbors understand what is being proposed. Please do not shoot the messengers.

M o C A M o C A

Morgan Community Association

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Additional Observations Grand Bargain Questions

We need affordable housing, but it is not clear if the Grand Bargain is the “best bargain”. Can the 6,000 goal be reached without double-plus upzones?

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See handout “MHA Payment and Performance Requirements”

Additional Observations Grand Bargain Questions

This map shows the areas which dictate amounts of contribution

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Just posted on HALA website:

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Additional Observations Grand Bargain Questions

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Additional Observations Neighborhood Plans

Neighborhood Plans were created through extensive public involvement in 1998-9 to guide the “livability” of growth anticipated in the new Urban Villages.

Alaska Junction was updated in 2010

Each Neighborhood Plan provides the Goals and Polices the City committed to, in support of the Seattle Comprehensive Plan. In Morgan Junction, the additional zoning changes are in direct conflict with our Neighborhood Plan.

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Welcome & Agenda

Mandatory Housing Affordability “Cliffs Notes” version

Mandatory Housing Affordability overview How to read the maps

Additional Observations

The Grand Bargain Neighborhood Plans

Maps on the tables

We are volunteers who want to help our neighbors understand what is being proposed. Please do not shoot the messengers.

M o C A M o C A

Morgan Community Association

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Maps on the tables

Look at existing and proposed zoning maps, talk with table folks to make sure you are comfortable reading them. Pay attention to density changes, as well as height changes (crosshatch areas) Use your “My Notes” page to

Capture questions for staff Prepare any comments for Dec 7 open house notes to take back to your neighborhood organization.

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How to Give Input

The City Open House will be Wednesday,

  • Dec. 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Shelby’s Bistro and

Ice Creamery, 4752 California Ave SW. You can respond to 10 specific questions in the “ConsiderIt” survey on line (see link on “My Notes handout”)

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Other ways to participate

Online dialogue HALA.Consider.It All urban village draft zoning maps online for comment and dialogue. 5 community meetings

  • 12/3 Bitter Lake (10

a.m.-12 p.m.)

  • 12/7 W. Seattle (6-8

p.m.)

  • 12/13 Roosevelt /

Ravenna (6-8 p.m.)

  • 1/10 First Hill (6-8 p.m.)
  • 1/21 Columbia City (10

a.m.-12 p.m.) 9 Neighborhood Urban Design Workshops

  • 10/20 N. Beacon Hill
  • 10/29 Roosevelt
  • 11/9 Westwood–Highland

Park

  • 11/15 Crown Hill
  • 11/29 Aurora–Licton

Springs

  • Othello
  • Rainier Beach
  • South Park
  • Wallingford

Local meetings & group discussions City staff will attend to the extent possible. EIS process

  • Feb. 2017 Draft EIS: 45-

day comment period

  • May 2017 Final EIS

Citywide mailing ~ December 2016

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Thank you for coming! Thank you to the Highland Park Improvement Club!

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