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Alameda planning staff outlines inclusionary-housing options as developers press for lower in-lieu fees
Summary
Planning staff presented options to revise Alameda's inclusionary housing requirements, proposing a 15% baseline and modeling a $100,000-per-unit in-lieu equivalence; board members debated fee structure, affordability terms and feasibility, and a waterfront developer urged a $10/gsf in-lieu option to keep a project financeable.
Planning staff on Monday presented a draft update to Alameda's inclusionary housing ordinance that would give developers multiple compliance options, shift some emphasis to low-income rental units and use a range of fee and unit-mix models to preserve housing production amid high costs.
"I'm Steve Buckley. I'm the Planning Services Manager, and I'll be making the presentation tonight," Buckley told the Planning Board, framing the update as a check-in before the item moves to City Council. Staff said AB 1505 and regional guidance (OBAG IV) provide a policy baseline — including a commonly-used assumption of roughly 15% inclusionary when expressed as a citywide benchmark — but emphasized that feasibility and nexus analysis remain central to ordinance design.
The presentation described two ways of calculating developer obligations: a per-square-foot subsidy for rental…
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