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11/28/2017 - Special Meeting Neighborhood and Affordable Meeting Minutes November 28, 2017 Housing Advisory Board City of Clearwater City Hall 112 S. Osceola Avenue Clearwater, FL 33756 Meeting Minutes Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:00 AM Special Meeting Council Chambers Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board Page 1 City of Clearwater Neighborhood and Affordable Meeting Minutes November 28, 2017 Housing Advisory Board Roll Call Present 5 - Chair Kevin Chinault, Board Member Peggy Cutkomp, Board Member Linda Kemp, Board Member Michael Potts, and Board Member Haley Crum Absent 2 - Vice Chair Carmen Santiago and Board Member Lisa Hughes Also Present: Chuck Lane — Economic Development & Housing Assistant Director, Joe Riddle - Housing Manager, Terry Malcolm-Smith — Housing Coordinator, Patricia O. Sullivan — Board Reporter 1. Call To Order The Chair called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m. at City Hall. To provide continuity for research, items are in agenda order although not necessarily discussed in that order. 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 Approve Neighborhood Affordable Housing Board Minutes Member Potts moved to approve minutes of the July 11, 2017 Neighborhood & Affordable Housing Advisory Board meeting as submitted in written summation. The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously. 3. Citizens to be Heard Regarding Items Not on the Agenda: None. 4. New Business Items 4.1 Staff report regarding the First Amendment to the 2016 Affordable Housing Inventory List pursuant to requirements of Chapter 166.0451, Florida Statutes The 2006 Legislature amended Chapter 166, Florida Statutes, adding Section 166.0451 entitled "Disposition of municipal property for affordable housing." The state statute includes that the governing body of each municipality must review the proposed affordable housing inventory list at a public hearing, and may revise the list at the conclusion of the hearing. Following the public hearing, the local governing body must adopt a resolution that includes an inventory list of such property deemed appropriate for affordable housing development. On June 16, 2016, the City Council adopted Resolution 16-14, the 2016 Affordable Housing Inventory to identify seven (7) City-owned parcels of land appropriate for use as affordable housing. The City has identified two (2) additional parcels of land making it a total of nine (9) parcels to which it has title as appropriate for use as affordable housing. Page 2 City of Clearwater Neighborhood and Affordable Meeting Minutes November 28, 2017 Housing Advisory Board The two additional properties are located at 1415 Taft Avenue, acquired by the City in 2001 and 404 Blanche B. Littlejohn Trail acquired in 2015. Both properties were acquired at no cost to the City. Assistant Economic Development & Housing Director Chuck Lane summarized the Staff Report. 4.2 Recommend City Council approval of the City of Clearwater's FY 2016-2017 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) is the principal administrative report documenting the City's expenditures for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) programs to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). For FY 2016-2017, the City's entitlement allocations were $667,634 in CDBG and $285,238 in HOME Program funds, $954,041 of Prior Year funds and $1,147,951 of Program Income for a total budget of$3,054,864 from federal funds. The report provides HUD with necessary information for the Department to meet its requirement to assess each grantee's ability to carry out relevant Community Planning and Development programs in compliance with all applicable rules and regulations. It also provides information necessary for HUD's Annual Report to Congress and it provides grantees an opportunity to describe to citizens their successes in revitalizing deteriorated neighborhoods and in meeting objectives stipulated in their Consolidated Planning document. In addition to reporting activities carried out with federal money, a summary of activities conducted with the Florida State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Program and Pinellas County Housing Trust Fund Program is also included in the narrative section; however, these numbers are not included in the totals below. Through the CDBG and HOME program activities, total expenditures were $1,629,332 in FY 2016-2017, which included program income and funding from the prior year reprogrammed funds. Those funds not expended from this year's budget will be programmed in future years. The City of Clearwater's FY 2016-2017 CAPER contains information on the City's assessment of the following activities: 1) Assessment of Four Year Goals and Outcomes; 2) Resources and Investments; 3) Affordable Housing; 4) Homeless and Other Special Needs; 5) Public Housing; 6) Other Actions to Address Barriers to Affordable Housing; 7) Monitoring; 8) CDBG; and 9) HOME. Over 2,200 persons were assisted through Community Development and Public Services, Homelessness, Housing, Non-Homeless Special Needs, Page 3 City of Clearwater Neighborhood and Affordable Meeting Minutes November 28, 2017 Housing Advisory Board and Economic Development activities during FY16-17. A brief summary of FY 2016-2017 accomplishments: Provided 1) thirteen (13) downpayment & closing cost assistance loans totaling $137,959; 2) the Arc of Tampa Bay - $99,500 for rehabilitation and upgrading of its rehabilitation room and upgrading of doors at Long Center; 3) $29,950 for rehabilitation of two (2) owner occupied homes; 4) $2657875 of funding toward construction of Garden Trail Apartments; 5) Community Services Foundation - $105,721 for rehabilitation of Fulton Avenue Apartments; 6) $296,568 to Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County for construction of six (6) single-family homes; and 7) $268,587 for acquisition and rehabilitation of two (2) single family homes. The FY 2016-2017 CAPER will be presented to City Council for approval at their meeting on December 7, 2017. The CAPER is due to HUD no later than December 30, 2017. Housing Manager Joe Riddle reviewed the Staff Report. Member Cutkomp moved to recommend approval of the City of Clearwater FY 2016/17 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report. The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously. 4.3 Recommend City Council approval of the 2017 Local Housing Incentive Strategy (LHIS) Report developed by the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC) Florida Statute Section 420.9076 states that counties and cities receiving State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program funds are required to appoint an eleven member Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC). The statute further provides that the committee be made up of members from a specific industry or a specific group as identified in the statute. The requirement was largely met through the use of the City's existing Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board (NAHAB). The City Council adopted Resolution 17-34 that created and appointed the AHAC. The duties of the AHAC included reviewing policies and procedures, ordinances, land development regulations and the City's adopted comprehensive plan and recommending specific actions or initiatives to encourage or facilitate affordable housing. Per state statute, at a minimum, the AHAC reviewed and made recommendations on the following: a) The processing of approvals of development orders or permits, as defined in F.S.163.3164 (7) and (8), for affordable housing projects is expedited to a greater degree than other projects: b) The modification of impact-fee requirements, including reduction Page 4 City of Clearwater Neighborhood and Affordable Meeting Minutes November 28, 2017 Housing Advisory Board or waiver of fees and alternative methods of fee payment for affordable housing; c) The allowance of flexibility in densities for affordable housing; d) The reservation of infrastructure capacity or housing for very-low income persons, low-income persons, and moderate-income persons; e) The allowance of affordable accessory residential units in residential zoning districts; f) The reduction of parking and setback requirements for affordable housing; g) The allowance of flexible lot configurations, including zero-lot-line configurations for affordable housing; h) The modification of street requirements for affordable housing; i) The establishment of a process by which a local government considers, before adoption, policies, procedures, ordinances, regulations, or plan provisions that increase the cost of housing; j) The preparation of a printed inventory of locally owned public lands suitable for affordable housing; and k) The support of development near transportation hubs and major employment centers and mixed-use developments. In August 2017, the Economic Development and Housing Department contracted with Wade Trim, Inc. to help facilitate the process. Wade Trim coordinated the preparation of the Local Housing Incentive Strategy report in cooperation with the City's staff and the AHAC. The LHIS encompasses the definition, vision, strategic focus areas and incentive recommendations in order to facilitate the development and preservation of affordable housing in the City of Clearwater. The AHAC convened on three separate occasions in order to develop and identify the value of affordable housing, identify the principles for Clearwater's affordable housing and develop a vision statement to be included as part of the LHIS. The report highlights an affordable housing vision statement that was derived from input by committee members. Additionally, the AHAC members focused on the values that affordable housing brings to the City of Clearwater. The themes identified centered on the values that affordable housing supports a dynamic and competitive economy, improves the social well being that builds a sense of community, and ensures that the City's workforce can live within the City limits. Furthermore, the AHAC also discussed and confirmed the principles that the provisions of affordable housing in the City of Clearwater should embrace: affordability over the long term, diversity that provides for a mix of income levels, sustainability, accessibility for persons with physical barriers, well-designed, in character with the surrounding neighborhood, strategically-located, and pedestrian-oriented with access to mass transit and open space. In summary, the report recommends the City continues in large part the strategies, with minor changes and clarifications, from the 2014 LHIS Report. One new recommendation was added for Council consideration: (1) Recommendation 10.4 - The Economic Development and Housing Page 5 City of Clearwater Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board Meeting Minutes November 28, 2017 Department should coordinate with the Planning and Development Department to identify properties having repeat code violations that may be suitable for rehabilitation, acquisition or demolition for affordable housing. The LHIS report is due every three years on December 31st of the year preceding the submission of the Local Housing Assistance Plan (LHAP). The report must be submitted to the City Council by December 31, 2017. The City Council is being asked to review the LHIS recommendations that were approved by the AHAC on November 28, 2017. By March 31, 2018, the City Council will be asked to adopt an amendment to the LHAP to incorporate the strategies it will implement for the City. The amendment must include, at a minimum, the State required incentive strategies specified above. Upon approval, the City of Clearwater is required to notify the State of its adoption of an amendment to its LHAP to incorporate the incentive strategies. The notice must also include a copy of the approved amended plan in order to comply with the SHIP programs participation guidelines. Member Kemp moved to recommend approval of the 2017 Local Housing Incentive Strategy Report developed by the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously. 5. Old Business Item: None. 6. Director's Report Consensus was to cancel the December 12, 2017 NAHAB meeting. Mr. Lane welcomed Member Crum to the board. 7. Board Members to be Heard: None. 8. Adjourn Attest: The meeting adjourned a Board Repo City of Clearwat Chair Neighborhood & Affordable Housing Advisory Board Page 6