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Riverbank council approves 2023 General Plan and Housing Element progress reports, hears concerns over affordable housing shortfall
Summary
The Riverbank City Council unanimously approved the 2023 General Plan Annual Progress Report and Housing Element Annual Progress Report, which show the city met 504 of its fifth-cycle RHNA allocation (about 40%) and left 776 units unaddressed. Council and residents discussed barriers to producing very-low and low-income housing and next steps for the sixth-cycle RHNA.
Riverbank’s City Council on April 9 voted unanimously to adopt the city’s 2023 General Plan Annual Progress Report and the 2023 Housing Element Annual Progress Report, ratifying staff’s submission of the reports to state agencies.
Contract city planner Miguel Galvez and contract planner Michael Arroyo presented the report, saying the city received six housing-focused architectural site-plan-review applications and issued 140 building permits for housing in 2023 (135 single-family dwellings, four accessory dwelling units and one junior ADU). Arroyo said the city reported 504 housing units toward the fifth-cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) covering 2015–2023, about 40% of the 1,280-unit allocation, leaving 776 units unaccommodated.
“Those 504 represent our…
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