To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Steve Potter, City Manager
Prepared By: Molly Rattigan, Deputy City Manager
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Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Grants
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
1. Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager or Deputy City Manager to submit an Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) grant application to the State of California as co-applicant with Heritage Housing Partners for The Crescent project located at 2344 Old Sonoma Road in an amount not to exceed $50 million for the development of 49 low-income and 47 moderate income deed restricted for-sale units and related sustainable transportation infrastructure, and authorizing AHSC funding and determining that the actions authorized by this resolution are exempt from CEQA; and
2. Adopt a resolution authorizing the Public Works Director to execute an Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Implementation, Indemnity and Cooperative Agreement with Napa Valley Community Housing and execute all documents necessary to secure AHSC funds for the construction of certain sustainable transportation infrastructure related to the proposed Monarch Landing development, a 77-unit affordable rental project located at 1000 Shelter Avenue and determining that the actions authorized by this resolution are exempt from CEQA.
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DISCUSSION:
The Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program is designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through affordable housing development projects that implement land-use, housing, transportation, and agricultural land preservation practices to support infill and compact development that support related and coordinated public policy objectives including: reducing air pollution, improving conditions in disadvantaged communities, supporting and improving public health benefits, improving connectivity and accessibility to jobs and services, and increasing optio...
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