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Mayor's housing amendment pitched as speed tool; supervisors and unions raise concerns about AMI and public land
Summary
The mayor's charter amendment and companion initiative would permit by-right approvals for certain affordable and educator projects and raise some AMI thresholds. The mayor's office argued streamlining reduces cost and delay; several supervisors and unions said the charter risks locking a higher affordability definition into the city constitution.
Representatives of the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development argued the mayor's charter amendment and initiative are designed to reduce lengthy discretionary review and accelerate construction of 100% affordable and educator housing.
Kate Hartley, director of MOHCD, told the committee discretionary review often adds years and significant extra costs: "If we're delayed 2 years in an iterative, discretionary review process, and we have a $100,000,000 construction budget, that's a $12,000,000 additional cost to our projects," she said.
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