To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Vincent Smith, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Michael Walker, Senior Planner
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2021 Housing Element Annual Progress Report
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Accept the 2021 Housing Element Annual Progress Report and direct Staff to file the report with HCD and OPR.
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DISCUSSION:
The City's General Plan helps to guide decision-making by residents, property owners, business interests, and elected and appointed officials about public and private land use and development that shape Napa's physical environment, including decisions relating to housing. As required by State law, an annual report must be submitted to the City Council, and ultimately be forwarded to the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), identifying the progress made with various housing programs contained in the General Plan, including local efforts to remove governmental constraints to the maintenance, improvement and development of housing.
This 2021 Housing Element Annual Progress Report (APR) identifies the actions undertaken by the City in the previous year to carry out the Housing Element's implementation programs. This is the fifth year of the 5th Cycle Housing Element, covering years 2015 through 2023.
Continuing with the enhanced spreadsheet introduced for the 2018 Reporting Year, the supporting documentation that accompanies this report incorporates requirements pursuant to housing-related bills that were enacted by the Legislature in 2017. As such, the supporting documentation includes seven tables of information as outlined below. For reference, the "reporting year" for this APR is January 1 through December 31, 2021. Below, Staff has noted those tables and which Tables are not applicable to Napa.
* Table A - Includes data on housing units and developments for which an application was submitted and "deem...
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