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Planning commission recommends inclusionary-housing amendment with AHAC corrections; urban-cluster expansion affordability lowered to 50% AMI
Summary
The commission recommended transmittal of Z24-00011, a county-initiated comprehensive-plan amendment to enable inclusionary housing incentives (substitution of nonresidential floor area for affordable units and bonus density) and to require affordable set-asides for certain future land-use changes; commissioners corrected AHAC's transposed AMI figures and voted to require 50% AMI for urban-cluster expansions.
Alachua County staff presented Z24-00011 on Nov. 20, a proposed comprehensive-plan text amendment designed to make voluntary inclusionary-housing incentives (and limited mandatory triggers) more effective in producing affordable units in the unincorporated county.
Senior planner Ivy Bell said the changes would allow substitution of required nonresidential floor area in traditional neighborhood development (TND) and transit-oriented development (TOD) for affordable residential units, create a density-bonus option of up to four additional units per acre if at least 20% of the bonus units are affordable, and expand the set of incentives (including mobility-fee assistance and impact-fee…
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