Agenda - Council - 09/30/1980 - Special

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.occurring in the Region's development areas and balance these considerations with the many limitations smaller or fully- developed communities face in providing additional housing options. A second reason for revising the 'criteria now stems from the Metropolitan Land Planning Act of 1976. The Council amended the Housing Chapter of the Development Guide to incorporate the law by revising its ten-year fair share low- and moderate-income housing goals and its housing plan review guidelines. Subsequently, communities in the Region have prepared or are .now preparing comprehensive land use plans which must address the housing concerns in the law including the requirement that they plan for the provision of their share of the existing and projected local and Regional need for low- and moderate-income housing opportunities. The Act also calls upon the communities to provide an implementation section within the housing element of their plan which outlines the progra .ms, fiscal devices and official controls they will employ to achieve their goals. The Land Planning Act also directed the Council to study and make recommendations to the legislature on standards and criteria for modest-cost housing. The Council responded by conducting a modest-cbst housing study and a series of follow-up reports examining a variety of factors which have an impact on housing costs. The directive from the legislature led as well to the Council's adoption of a fair share plan for new modest- cost private market housing which calls upon every community in the Region to provide the opportunity for the development of modestly-priced housing units. As a result, 'the cUrrent evaluation criteria need to be changed to reflect this important modest-cost housing considerations. -- Finally, the existing criteria have been used since 1976. They do not reflect the changes that have occurred in the housing market during the last four years, such as rising .housing costs · and a trend toward attached forms of housing. The criteria must also reflect more current and raccurate housing data now available and that anticipated from the 1980 census. PROPOSED REVIS IONS This draft document contains a number of changes to the existing point system. Some of the proposed changes are of no major consequence. They clarify or revise language in a particular criterion, or shift points to or from a criterion. However, there are also a number of significant changes in response to the concerns and issues previously mentioned. Section three compares the existing criteria with the proposed changes and contains several proposed new criteria. A brief explanation for the change is provided after each of the proposed revisions. 2