8068-09
MOTION TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 8068-09 ON SECOND READING
On page 2, amend the ordinance as follows:
The title of Section 2.228 is amended as follows:
Sec. 2.228. Powers and duties. The board Ghall have the following
povlem ::md dutiec:
Pamela K. Aki
City Attorney
May 7, 2009
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ORDINANCE NO. 8068-09
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CLEARWATER, FLORIDA,
RELATING TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND AFFORDABLE
HOUSING ADVISORY BOARD; AMENDING CODE OF
ORDINANCES, ARTICLE 2, DIVISION 9A, SECTIONS 2.226
THROUGH 2.229; DECREASING THE NUMBER OF BOARD
MEMBERS FROM ELEVEN TO SEVEN, TO BE AUGMENTED
TRIENNIALLY BY APPOINTMENT OF FOUR COMMITTEE
MEMBERS BY RESOLUTION; AMENDING POWERS AND
DUTIES OF THE BOARD; PROVIDING FOR TRIENNIAL
APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL BOARD MEMBERS TO
SERVE AS THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY
COMMITTEE AND PROVIDING FOR COMMITTEE POWERS
AND DUTIES; PROVIDING FOR THE TERMINATION OF TERMS
FOR THE ADDITIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 7981-08 added certain distribution requirements and
established the Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board as the Affordable
Housing Advisory Committee; and
WHEREAS, it is advisable to provide that the Affordable Housing Advisory
Committee shall be constituted only every three years, as statutorily mandated, and to
provide for termination of terms of the Committee following completion of its periodic duties;
now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA:
Section 1. Code of Ordinances, Division 9A, Sections 2.226 through 2.229, is
hereby amended to read as follows:
DIVISION 9A. NEIGHBORHOOD AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY BOARD
Sec. 2.226. Creation; membership.
(1) There is hereby created and established the Neighborhood and Affordable Housing
Advisory Board of the City of Clearwater.
(2) The board shall consist of a minimum of seven eleven members, and aUQmented
by four members triennially appointed by resolution of the city council pursuant to
Section 2.228(4), who are residents of or conduct work in the city. Members shall be
appointed by the city council. The board shall include the following:
1. One citizen who is actively engaged in the residential home building industry in
connection with affordable housing.
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2. One citizen who is actively engaged in the banking or mortgage industry in
connection with affordable housing.
3. One citizen who is a representative of those areas of labor engaged in home
building in connection with affordable housing.
~ 4:- One citizen who is actively engaged as an advocate for low-income persons in
connection with affordable housing.
5. One citizen who is actively engaged as a for profit provider of affordable housing.
4. e. One citizen who is actively engaged as a not-for-profit provider of affordable
housing.
~ ~ One citizen who is actively engaged as a real estate professional in connection
with affordable housing.
8. One oitizen who serves on the looal planning agency pursuant to F.S. ~ 163.3174.
6. 9. One citizen who resides within the City of Clearwater.
7.40. One citizen who represents employers within the City of Clearwater.
. 11. One oitizen who represents essential servioes personnel, as defined in the local
housing assistance plan.
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Sec. 2.228. Powers and duties. The board shall have the follo)Ning powers and duties:
The board shall have the following powers and duties: Every three years the
board shall review the established policies and procedures, ordinances, I:Jnd
development regulations, and adopted local government comprehensive plan of the city
and shall reoommend specific actions or initiatives to encourage or facilitate affordable
housing while proteoting the ability of the property to appreciate in value. The board
shall submit a report to the city that includes reoommendations on and triennially
thereafter m,'aluates the implementation of affordable housing incentives in the following
areas;
(a) The processing of approvals of development orders or permits and
expedited permitting for affordable housing projeots.
(b) The modification of impact f-ce requirements, including reduotion or
waiver of fees and alternative methods of fee payment for affordable
housing.
(0) The allm"Janoe of flexibility in densities for affordable housing.
(d) The reservation of infrastructure oapacity for housing for very 10'll
inoome persons, 10'.\' income persons, and moderate income persons.
(e) The allowance of affordable aocessory residenti:J1 units in residential
zoning districts.
(f) The reduction of parking and setback requirements for affordable
housing.
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(g) The allO'.vanoe of flexible lot configurations, inoluding zero lot line
configurations f-or aff-ordable housing.
(h) The modification of street requirements f-or aff-ordable housing.
(i) The establishment of a process by which the city considers, before
adoption, polioies, prooedures, ordinanoes, regulations, or plan provisions
that inorease the oost of housing.
m The preparation of a printed inventory of locally O'.4Jned public lands
suitable f-or affordable housing.
(k) The support of development near transportation hubs and major
employment centers and mixed UEie developments.
The approval by the board of the oity's looal inoentive strategies
recommendations and its reviC'.\' of local government implementation of previously
recommended strategies must be made by affirmative vote of a majority of the
membership of the board taken at a public hearing. Notice of the time, date, and plaoe
of the public hearing of the board to adopt final housing incentive strategies
recommendations must be published in a newspaper of general paid circulation in
Pinellas County. The notice must contain a short and concise summary of the housing
incentive strategies recommendations to be considered by the board. The notioe must
state the public place ,..,here a copy of the tentative board recommendations oan be
obtained by interested persons. VVithin 90 days after the date of receipt of the housing
incentive strategies recommendations from the board, the city council shall adopt an
amendment to its looal housing assistance plan to incorporate the housing inoentive
strategies it will implement.
In addition, the board may:
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(4) Carry out the duties of an advisory committee when and to the extent that an
advisory committee may be required for the various state, federal and county housing
and community development programs fundina the city receives.
Everv three years. the Board shall sit separately as the Affordable Housina Advisorv
Committee (AHAC) accordina to Florida Statute 420.9076. In addition to the seven
members. four additional committee members will be appointed by resolution of the city
council in the followina cateaories:
(1) One citizen who is a representative of those areas of labor engaaed in home
buildina in connection with affordable housina.
(2) One citizen who is actively enaaaed as a for-profit provider of affordable
housing.
(3) One citizen who serves on the local plannina aaency pursuant to F.S. &
163.3174.
(4) One citizen who represents essential services personnel. as defined in the
local housing assistance plan.
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The AHAC shall have the followina powers and duties:
Review the established policies and procedures. ordinances. land development
reaulations. and adopted local aovernment comprehensive plan of the city and shall
recommend specific actions or initiatives to encouraae or facilitate affordable housina
while protectina the ability of the property to appreciate in value. The board shall submit
a report to the city that includes recommendations on and triennially thereafter
evaluates the implementation of affordable housina incentives in the followina areas:
(a) The processina of approvals of development orders or permits and expedited
permittina for affordable housina proiects.
(b) The modification of impact fee reQuirements. includina reduction or waiver of
fees and alternative methods of fee payment for affordable housina.
(c) The allowance of flexibility in densities for affordable housing.
(d) The reservation of infrastructure capacity for housina for very-low income
persons. low-income persons. and moderate-income persons.
(e) The allowance of affordable accessory residential units in residential zonina
districts.
(f) The reduction of parkinQ and setback reQuirements for affordable housina.
(a) The allowance of flexible lot confiaurations. includina zero-lot line
confiaurations for affordable housina.
(h) The modification of street reQuirements for affordable housina.
(i) The establishment of a process by which the city considers. before adoption.
policies. procedures. ordinances. reaulations. or plan provisions that increase the cost
of housina.
(j) The preparation of a printed inventory of locally owned public lands suitable for
affordable housina.
(k) The support of development near transportation hubs and maior employment
centers and mixed-use developments.
The approval by the board of the city's local incentive strateaies recommendations and
its review of local aovernment implementation of previously recommended strateaies
must be made by affirmative vote of a maiority of the membership of the board taken at
a public hearina. Notice of the time. date. and place of the public hearina of the board to
adopt final housina incentive strateaies recommendations must be published in a
newspaper of aeneral paid circulation in Pinellas County. The notice must contain a
short and concise summary of the housina incentive strateaies recommendations to be
considered by the board. The notice must state the public place where interested
persons can obtain a COpy of the tentative board recommendations. Within 90 days after
the date of receipt of the housina incentive strateaies recommendations from the board.
the city council shall adopt an amendment to its local housina assistance plan to
incorporate the housina incentive strateQies it will implement.
The appointment of these four (4) additional members shall terminate upon the
adoption at the end of each three-year review by the City Council of the amendments to
the Local Housina Assistance Plan.
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Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon adoption.
PASSED ON FIRST READING
April 15. 2009
PASSED ON SECOND AND FINAL May 7, 2009
READING AND ADOPTED AS AMENDED
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-F'fank V. Hibbard
Mayor
Approved as to form: Attest:
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