SB35,: In-fill multi-family attached communities

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Today, the California Department of Housing and Community Development held a webinar to assist those interested in taking advantage of legislation (SB35) enacted to streamline local approvals of low income housing projects in cities and counties which have not met their regional housing goals.  

Here is a link to the webinar.

Low Income Housing Compliance

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Here are presentations from the County and City of Santa Rosa on low income housing compliance.

Sonoma County Community Development Commission

City of Santa Rosa Housing Authority

Affordable Housing Developments

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Thanks to Gen H for this compilation of affordable housing projects in process of development in this area.

Properties in the Control of the City of Santa Rosa by District

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Homeless Action and SAVS have been encouraging the City of Santa Rosa to examine the properties under its control for opportunities to support Safe Parking.  Here is a map of those we have been able to find which might be leased out by the City to organizations and neighborhoods for that purpose.

Apartment Living in Santa Rosa

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Keeping up with City Planning

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I carry four cellphone integrated apps that help me be more effective at being civically-engaged here in Santa Rosa:   Google Calendar, Gmail, Maps, and YouTube.  Here’s how I use them together.  I use Google Engine Maps to mark the locations of all new proposed projects (housing developments, capital improvements, public recovery and fire prevention projects), and I place in the description area of the placemark active links to Zoom decision-making meetings, staff reports, submittals by developers, city planning and capital improvement documents, upcoming general plan proposed zoning and development changes and reports, and city videos of previous meetings where these projects were discussed.  The meetings are in my calendar, and cross-linked to the placemarks, and the documents and reports are on my Google Drive. 

I have a very complex virtual research library at my fingertips showing the impending changes coming to every foot of the cityscape.

And with 7,000 units coming from the private sector to downtown Santa Rosa, $39 million in CDBG-Disaster Relief housing projects being approved in February by the Housing Authority, $91 million worth of PG&E settlement housing and fire protections projects coming in the next couple of years, $200 million in Capital Improvements projects planned for the next three years, and a city-wide General Plan Update being conducted in the next three years, there will be change coming to everywhere.

How to spend $250 million to make Sonoma Strong

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It's no secret.  Help all of us learn the skills we need, and have access to the resources required.     

• Improve libraries and schools.
• Encourage neighborhoods to communicate and share.
• Grow more local food and distribute it.
• Provide housing for those without.
• Support re-use, repair, and conservation of consumables.
• Plan and use land well.
• Conserve and clean water.
• Protect natural resources.
• Encourage our imaginations and creativity.

Gregory Fearon

Cancer Park Photos