Half Moon Bay Planning Commission urges City Council to adopt housing element, asks council to consider Measure D revision before final adoption

The Half Moon Bay Planning Commission on Oct. 28 recommended that the City Council adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration and submit the city's draft 2023-2031 housing element to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for review, while asking Council to consider whether to revise Program 6-8 (the Measure D language) prior to adoption.

Director Lehi summarized changes HCD asked for that are captured in Attachment 5 of the staff packet and highlighted two main items: a near-term code amendment to allow different allocation treatment for accessory dwelling units (ADUs and JADUs) including rollovers of unused allocations, and a ballot measure (earliest possible: 2028) to revise Measure D to designate a single downtown town-center area and to exempt ADUs from residential dwelling unit allocation limits. "We have a mitigated neg dec. The mitigation is about…