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Planning Commission recommends council adopt housing element amendments tied to settlement with Housing Action Coalition
Summary
The commission voted 5–0 to recommend City Council adopt amendments to the 2023–31 Housing Element to reflect pipeline projects, remove certain sites per a settlement with the Housing Action Coalition, use realistic capacity assumptions (up to 90%), and add new opportunity sites; staff said HCD found the amendments in substantial compliance pending council adoption.
The San Mateo Planning Commission on Jan. 28 voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council adopt amendments to the city’s 2023–31 Housing Element, changes intended to implement a settlement with the Housing Action Coalition and to secure final certification from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
Principal planner Steve Golden told the commission the housing element documents a plan to accommodate San Mateo’s regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) of 7,015 units and includes 53 policies and roughly 150 implementation actions. Golden said recent code and policy changes — including higher administrative approval thresholds for projects, objective design…
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