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Montclair adopts emergency housing ordinance to meet state deadline, enabling ministerial approvals for affordable projects
Summary
The Montclair City Council on April 23 adopted an emergency housing facilitation ordinance requiring ministerial approval for qualifying projects with at least 20% low-income units, raising minimum density in some zones to 20 units/acre and allowing a limited height bonus for projects that meet affordability criteria.
Montclair — The City Council voted on April 23 to adopt Emergency Ordinance No. 26-1017-U, a housing facilitation measure intended to satisfy the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and avoid monthly penalties for delinquent housing-element actions. The ordinance takes effect immediately as an urgency measure.
City staff and legal counsel said the ordinance creates a ministerial (staff-level) approval path for residential or mixed-use projects that include at least 20% of units affordable to low-income households. It also sets a 20-dwelling-units-per-acre minimum density for affected corridors and designated "housing opportunity" sites, requires that at least 50% of the first-floor area of mixed-use projects be reserved for residential uses, and allows a narrow height bonus — up to two…
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