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Water Commission recommends private submetering for eligible adaptive reuse projects
Summary
The Santa Barbara City Water Commission voted to recommend allowing private submetering for eligible adaptive reuse projects aligned with Community Development's draft ordinance, citing developer certainty and tenant/vendor experience while noting state rules and inspection roles.
The Santa Barbara City Water Commission on April 17 voted to recommend allowing private submetering for eligible adaptive reuse projects as proposed in Community Development's draft adaptive reuse ordinance.
City staff presented three options for metering adaptive reuse projects and recommended aligning water policy with Community Development's eligibility criteria. Staff described adaptive reuse as retrofitting and repurposing an existing building to create new residential units where commercial use changes to residential within the existing building shell. The draft ordinance's incentives apply when a project meets one of four criteria: converting a hotel, converting a historic resource, creating at least 50% affordable units, or locating within the priority housing overlay.
Katie Munster, a water resources specialist, told the commission staff had researched…
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