If it has not yet been done, I would suggest the City reach out to the City school district to investigate the feasibility of utilizing some portions of city school sites for the construction of workforce family housing -- possibly a joint powers authority between the City and the School District could be used to develop such sites.
Thank you for taking this opportunity to reexamine existing zoning rules that exacerbate racial segregation of Sacramento's neighborhoods. Sacramento's highest opportunity areas are single family neighborhoods that cannot increase the number of homes because the single family zoning does not allow it. The exclusionary origins of zoning that segregated cities by race were calcified by zoning that segregates by income. Public policy created a barrier to intergenerational wealth creation for non-white families and single family zoning in high opportunity neighborhoods reinforces it. This means that the desirable neighborhoods that were predominantly white and wealthy 80 years ago are still white and wealthy today. Let's use the housing element update to open up Sacramento's most exclusive neighborhoods to more affordable housing types.
My name is Ansel Lundberg and I am a District 3 resident & co-chair of House Sacramento, the local YIMBY group. House Sac is heartened by the HE update framework proposed, particularly that the first two items are "Increasing Overall AND Affordable Housing Production." These go hand in hand toward solving the housing crisis, and fortunately, both goals are furthered by many of the same policies, such as rezoning for higher intensity/legalizing missing middle housing and large multifamily near transit, and eliminating onerous restrictions (FAR limits, setbacks, parking reqs, minimum lot sizes, etc) hidden in the zoning code. I do concur with many parts of Shawn's comment below; in particular, the goal of zoning for a much higher target than the assigned RHNA unit number. House Sac looks forward to our continued involvement in this process.
On a personal note, as an East Sac resident, please consider implementing transit village style plans near the 39th St and 48th St. RT stations.
My name is Shawn Danino, I am a resident of downtown, and I am deeply concerned that the quantity of new housing allowed remains insufficient to reach GHG targets, make Sacramento affordable, and affirmatively further fair housing.
The City should aim to exceed its RHNA allocation to provide enough housing inside for both the population experiencing homelessness and the 229,000 people who work in the City of Sacramento, but live outside of the City (2017 Census). At an average household size of 2.5 people, the City should zone for significantly more than 91,600 new homes, not 45,600, over the next RHNA cycle.
To address the true scale of the shortage and slow the increase in rents, the City should drastically increase its zoning for Single Residence Occupancies with flexible lengths/terms, mixed-income levels, and supportive housing. Most importantly, new residential must have heights similar to commercial buildings in the Capitol Corridor, between 15-31 stories. Opinions my own.
If it has not yet been done, I would suggest the City reach out to the City school district to investigate the feasibility of utilizing some portions of city school sites for the construction of workforce family housing -- possibly a joint powers authority between the City and the School District could be used to develop such sites.
Thank you for taking this opportunity to reexamine existing zoning rules that exacerbate racial segregation of Sacramento's neighborhoods. Sacramento's highest opportunity areas are single family neighborhoods that cannot increase the number of homes because the single family zoning does not allow it. The exclusionary origins of zoning that segregated cities by race were calcified by zoning that segregates by income. Public policy created a barrier to intergenerational wealth creation for non-white families and single family zoning in high opportunity neighborhoods reinforces it. This means that the desirable neighborhoods that were predominantly white and wealthy 80 years ago are still white and wealthy today. Let's use the housing element update to open up Sacramento's most exclusive neighborhoods to more affordable housing types.
My name is Ansel Lundberg and I am a District 3 resident & co-chair of House Sacramento, the local YIMBY group. House Sac is heartened by the HE update framework proposed, particularly that the first two items are "Increasing Overall AND Affordable Housing Production." These go hand in hand toward solving the housing crisis, and fortunately, both goals are furthered by many of the same policies, such as rezoning for higher intensity/legalizing missing middle housing and large multifamily near transit, and eliminating onerous restrictions (FAR limits, setbacks, parking reqs, minimum lot sizes, etc) hidden in the zoning code. I do concur with many parts of Shawn's comment below; in particular, the goal of zoning for a much higher target than the assigned RHNA unit number. House Sac looks forward to our continued involvement in this process.
On a personal note, as an East Sac resident, please consider implementing transit village style plans near the 39th St and 48th St. RT stations.
My name is Shawn Danino, I am a resident of downtown, and I am deeply concerned that the quantity of new housing allowed remains insufficient to reach GHG targets, make Sacramento affordable, and affirmatively further fair housing.
The City should aim to exceed its RHNA allocation to provide enough housing inside for both the population experiencing homelessness and the 229,000 people who work in the City of Sacramento, but live outside of the City (2017 Census). At an average household size of 2.5 people, the City should zone for significantly more than 91,600 new homes, not 45,600, over the next RHNA cycle.
To address the true scale of the shortage and slow the increase in rents, the City should drastically increase its zoning for Single Residence Occupancies with flexible lengths/terms, mixed-income levels, and supportive housing. Most importantly, new residential must have heights similar to commercial buildings in the Capitol Corridor, between 15-31 stories. Opinions my own.