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Riverbank staff and consultant outline housing element update, say city must plan for 3,591 units
Summary
Consultant David Niskinen presented the city's sixth-cycle housing element requirements and a site-inventory methodology that must account for 3,591 units across income categories; city staff outlined a timeline that includes an April site inventory, a June draft and a 30-day public review before state submission.
David Niskinen of JB Anderson Land Use Planning told the Riverbank City Council and Local Redevelopment Authority on March 12 that the city's sixth-cycle housing element must plan for 3,591 units for the 2023'031 period and meet new state requirements including affirmatively furthering fair housing.
Niskinen, the consultant the city contracted in September 2023, said the housing element is the only general-plan element the state requires be updated on a regular cycle and that it includes a site inventory, household and employment characteristics, housing stock analysis and a new fair-housing analysis. "The housing element assesses constraints and opportunities and identifies programs the city needs to complete over the next eight years," he said.
He described the site-inventory methodology…
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