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Home My WebLink About193 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 193 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 61.0217 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA INTERIM ZONING ORDINANCE CREATING A SENIOR HOUSING OVERLAY DISTRICT The City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California does ordain as follows: SECTION 1: Section 61.0217 of the Rancho Cucamonga Interim Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended as follows: SECTION 2: Definitions: The Senior Housing Overlay District is a floating district that requires certain conditions before it can be attached to a specific parcel of land and as such is not given a specific location until a developer applies for it. As a combination Planned Development and Overlay District, it is intended to include development review, zoning, and subdivision, all of which shall be conducted simultaneously with required public hearings. SECTION 3: Purposes: It is the overall purpose of the Senior Housing Overlay District to carry out the following policies of the City's General Plan with respect toward Senior Citizens. a. The City shall promote programs which meet the special housing needs of the elderly, handicapped, and minority groups (pp. 15 & 88). b. The City should encourage a balanced supply of rental and ownership housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households (p. 78). c. The City shall implement programs which assist low- and moderate-income families, the elderly, handicapped persons, large families, and minorities in renting and buying existing housing (p. 83). d. The City shall investigate the feasibility for special criteria to provide reduced parking requirements for new housing projects. If found feasible, the policy would provide for reduced on- site costs for developers of elderly housing resulting in lower unit cost (p. 89). The Senior Housing Overlay District is intended to facilitate the construction of affordable rental housing units that will serve the current and long term City need for affordable senior citizen oriented dwelling units while maintaining a high degree of quality in project design and construction. The District is further intended, by offering various development incentives, to make the development of senior citizen oriented affordable units attractive to potential developers while at the same time providing assurances to the City that units developed by use of the incentives offered as part of the Overlay District, remain available and affordable to the target group intended - senior citizens of low and moderate incomes. SECTION 4: Target Population: The primary resident population group that is intended to be served by the units constructed through use of incentives offered as part of the Senior Housing Overlay District are senior citizens who meet both of the following criteria: Ordinance No. 193 Page 2 a. 1. Married couples - head of household age 55 years or older. 2. Individuals - age 55 years or older. b. Individuals or married couples whose annual income from all sources is equal to or less than 80% of the County median income as currently determined by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. SECTION 5: Applicability: The Senior Housing Overlay District requires the presence of certain conditions before it can be applied for or attached to a specific parcel of land. In order to adequately and satisfactorily serve the target population that this District has been created to serve, any proposed project site must demonstrate the following conditions and features: a. Appropriate base district zoning. b. Land uses in the immediate and surrounding area, current and projected, must be compatible with the living environment required by senior citizens and must be free of health, safety, or noise problems (i.e. area generally quiet). c. Area infrastructure must be in place or constructed as part of the project and capable of serving the proposed project including: -streets - sidewalks - traffic/pedestrian signals d.Proposed site topography must be fairly level and easily traversed by persons of limited mobility. e. Proposed site must demonstrate close proximity to commercial establishments, service providers, and other amenities including: -food shopping - drug stores - banks - medical and dental facilities - public transit (main or frequently served routes) - open space/recreational facilities SECTION 6: Development Incentives: In order to reduce development costs associated with the construction of housing oriented toward senior citizens of low and moderate income, the city is prepared to offer a developer some or all of the following incentives, depending upon the quality, size, nature, and scope of the project proposed. a. Reduction In Required On-Site Parking: The current city standard for on-site parking in multiple family projects is 2.2 parking spaces per dwelling unit with one space per dwelling unit being a covered carport or garage. The City will grant a reduction in required on-site parking down to a minimum ratio of · 7 non-covered parking spaces per unit. b. Dwellin~ Unit Density Bonus: In order to maximize net yield per acre, the City will consider increasing the allowable project density by either granting a 25% density bonus to the project site's exisiting density category (per California Government Code Ordinance No. 193 Page 3 Section 65915), or by granting a request for a change in density range (per the City's General Plan), or both depending upon the quality, size, nature, and scope of the project. c. Fee Waivers/Reductions: Projects submitted under the Senior Housing Overlay District may receive, depending upon their size, nature, and scope, a reduction or waiver of some or all City imposed development submittal and processing fees. Such reductions of waivers may affect the following fee schedule: Planned Development/Project Submittal Fees Park Fees School Fees (when applicable) Other fees (where applicable) Fee reductions or waivers are subject to negotiation between the City and the project developer and will be granted based upon that amount of reduction or waiver necessary to place per unit monthly rental costs in the range affordable to the target population. SECTION 7: City/Developer Agreement Regarding Long Term Affordability of Units: Development incentives granted by the City to a developer using the Senior Housing Overlay District are predicated upon the long term availability and affordability of the units for the target population previously defined. In order to insure that the units remain available and affordable to this group, the developer will be required to enter into a Development Agreement with the City per California Government Code Section 65864 through 65869.5. SECTION 8: The City shall establish a process and such administrative guidelines as it shall deem necessary in order to implement the provisions of the Senior Housing Overlay District. SECTION 9: The Planning Commission held a Public Hearing on February 23, 1983 for Environmental Assessment 83-02 and found that it will not create any adverse impacts on the environment and that a Negative Declaration is issued on April 6, 1983. SECTION 9: The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall cause the same to be published within fifteen (15) days after its passage at least once in The Daily Report, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Ontario, California, and circulated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California. PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 20th day of April, 1983. AYES: Dahl, Buquet, Schlosser, Frost, Mikels NOES: None ABSENT: None ~,,~ D. ~ikels,- Ma~yor ATTEST: Lauren M. Wasserman, City Clerk