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Community Development Department presenting a General Plan amendment and revisions to the 2022 Moderate Income Housing Report, for City Council action, to add detail to the Implementation Plan of the Moderate Income Housing Element.
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Presenter:
Jake Warner, Long Range Planning Manager
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Description/Background:
In 2022, Sandy City, to comply with changes to Utah Code by HB 462, adopted a Moderate Income Housing Element, including moderate income housing strategies and an implementation plan. The adopted Moderate Income Housing Element included a total of six strategies, which is two more strategies than the minimum requirement. Adopting the two additional strategies would qualify the City to be eligible to receive priority consideration when the City applies for certain State transportation funds. The City is required to annually submit a moderate income housing report. The 2022 requirements for submittal of the report was to include a description of the selected housing strategies and the associated implementation plan. The implementation plan adopted with the Moderate Income Housing Element identified the adopted strategies and actions items to implement those strategies. City staff submitted the City's implementation plan, as the required documentation for the 2022 Moderate Income Housing Report, to the Utah Department of Workforce Services in September 2022.
The Department of Workforce Services reviewed the City's submittal and determined that the City's documents complied with the new minimum requirements adopted through HB 462, however they also determined that the City would not be eligible for the priority consideration when applying for the affected State transportation funds. According to the Department of Workforce Services, the City was not eligible for priority consideration due to a lack of detail in the implementation plan for Strategy P (use of RDA moderate income housing set-aside funds)....
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