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Mill Valley council reviews inclusionary housing overhaul, gives staff preliminary direction
Summary
Council heard a lengthy presentation on proposed changes to inclusionary housing rules ' including raising the project threshold to seven units and adopting a 15%/20% tiered requirement ' and signaled preliminary support for staff recommendations while taking no formal vote.
City planning staff presented proposed revisions to Mill Valley's inclusionary housing rules and the City Council spent the bulk of its meeting probing trade-offs between encouraging development and producing deed-restricted affordable units. Planning manager Danielle Stoudy told council the review is intended to provide clear, predictable requirements to developers and said no action would be taken tonight; staff will forward draft regulations to the Planning Commission after council direction.
The presentation framed the issue around local housing constraints: about 1,400 people and roughly 6,500 housing units in town, a large share of single-family zoning and 30% of households cost-burdened, and few recent multifamily projects. Stoudy outlined a staff recommendation to raise the project threshold from four to seven units, set a 15% inclusionary requirement for projects of 7'19 units and 20% for…
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