Property Owners in Haight/Cole Valley/Inner Sunset Let Your Voice Be Heard
Property Owners in District 5 are encouraged to attend a community outreach meeting on Tuesday March 31st at 7pm at Park Branch Library, 1833 Page to help weigh-in on San Francisco’s housing element of the general plan which, updated every five years, guides overall San Francisco policy regarding housing.
The City is embarking upon a Citywide outreach campaign for the 2009 Housing Element update. The Planning Department and the Mayor’s Office of Housing have been working closely with a Community Advisory Body to develop initial ideas for that update. We’d like to hear about your needs related to housing, so that we can adequately incorporate policy ideas that address these needs. The Housing Element is the component of the City’s General Plan that provides a five year vision for housing. San Francisco, along with all the municipalities, is required by state law to update the Housing Element of the General Plan every five years. The State requires that a complete and approved draft be submitted by June 26th, 2009…[more]
Objectives (From the previous Housing Element of the General Plan adopted May 13th 2004)
This second part of the Housing Element sets forth objectives, policies, and implementing programs to address the critical housing needs identified in Part I. In the last decade, San Francisco’s population grew while new housing construction failed to keep pace. San Francisco households grew an average 2,400 annually, yet addition to the housing stock averaged just about 1,000 a year. Vacancy rates plummeted and even middle-income householders found themselves paying 50% or more of their income to rents.
The State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), has estimated that San Francisco needs to build over 2,700 new units a year to meet its share of the region’s projected housing demand. As recent production fell short of this annual target, 3,200 new units a year must be built between 2001 and 2006 to meet regional housing goals. At least 40% of these new housing construction should be affordable to low and very low income households, and 32% affordable to households of moderate means.
Objectives and policies are general in nature and serve as the framework for decision making and priority-setting. They address specific needs and are followed by related implementation actions. For these implementation actions to succeed, three major prerequisites must be met:
- An adequate supply of land must be identified;
- Regulatory and other impediments must be removed while incentives are identified and provided; and
- Adequate financing must be available for both private and non-profit housing development. [more]
If you’ve ever wanted a say in how the city uses it’s valuable resources, now is the time to speak up and let your voice be heard. While this meeting is set up specifically for property owners in District 5, there are plenty of ways to get involved including if you can’t make this meeting.
Host your own Community Conversation- Contact:Abigail.kiefer@sfgov.org or call 415.575.9065
Housing Element 2009 Update [SF Planning Dept]
General Plan SF Housing Element [SF Gov]
District 5 Map PDF [SFGov.org]
Housing Elements Community Calender [SFPlanning.org]
Park Branch Library 1833 Page [Google Maps]
