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Planning Commission Unanimously Recommends Council Adopt Ordinance to Streamline Affordable-housing Approvals
Summary
The Orinda Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend City Council adopt Ordinance 26-02, amending Title 17 to implement 6th-cycle housing-element actions that allow multifamily development by right on specified sites when at least 20% of units are affordable to lower-income households.
The Orinda Planning Commission on Jan. 2026 voted unanimously to adopt Resolution 26-01, recommending that the City Council adopt Ordinance 26-02 to amend Title 17 of the Orinda Municipal Code and implement housing-element actions aimed at streamlining approvals for certain affordable-housing sites.
Associate Planner Darren Hughes told commissioners the city's 6th-cycle housing element, adopted Jan. 31, 2023, obligates Orinda to plan for 1,359 units in its regional housing needs allocation and that state law requires multifamily residential use by right on specified reuse and shortfall sites under California Government Code section 65583.2(c) and (h). "We're proposing text that'll put this requirement into the first chapter of the municipal code," Hughes said, describing…
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