Initial Public Review Draft of the Housing Element – 30-day Public Comment Period Complete
In October 2022, the City of Belvedere released the Initial Public Review Draft of the 2023-2031 Housing Element for a 30-day public comment period which ran from October 17, 2022, to November 17, 2022.
On November 15, 2022, the Planning Commission held a special meeting to provide an opportunity for the public to provide verbal comments during the 30-day public review period.
Next Steps
City staff and the City’s Housing Element consultants are preparing responses to the public comments and revising the Draft Housing Element as appropriate prior to HCD submittal for its first preliminary review. After the 10-day consideration and revision period, the Initial Public Review Draft Housing Element will be submitted to HCD for a 90-day review period.
Initial Public Review Draft of the Housing Element – 30-day Public Comment Period Complete
In October 2022, the City of Belvedere released the Initial Public Review Draft of the 2023-2031 Housing Element for a 30-day public comment period which ran from October 17, 2022, to November 17, 2022.
On November 15, 2022, the Planning Commission held a special meeting to provide an opportunity for the public to provide verbal comments during the 30-day public review period.
Next Steps
City staff and the City’s Housing Element consultants are preparing responses to the public comments and revising the Draft Housing Element as appropriate prior to HCD submittal for its first preliminary review. After the 10-day consideration and revision period, the Initial Public Review Draft Housing Element will be submitted to HCD for a 90-day review period.
After reading the full Housing Element Draft please leave your comments here. In addition, you can send an email to the address to the right.
CLOSED: This discussion has concluded.
It makes no sense to demolish existing housing units to make more expensive ones that the community cannot afford. I think that adding ADU can make sense providing adequate parking can be found, increasing transportation and services for the elderly. Priority should be given to local workers to reduce their commute.
Gary
almost 2 years ago
**See Figure D-1, Sites Maps 1,2,3,4. This proposal would add aprox. 150 new homes into this already hazardous Flood Zone next to our City park displacing all those long term tenants who would, likely, not be able to afford to live in the new high-priced "low cost" housing proposed to be built units/homes. Existing health and safety issues in this particular area already include overcrowded exit plan (fire,flood,earthquake,first responders), traffic, parking, utilities, etc.
SLeeD
almost 2 years ago
IMHO- •Belvedere should be exempt as an island, with limited resources such as water, land & emergency roads. •Residents could offer their homes as having a “potential ADU” to get to the 160 mandate. •These additional homes added should go first & foremost to the existing local Belvedere residents & local workers that keep our Belvedere community alive! I.E. Teachers, policeman, firemen, nurses & local business owners. •Please do not knock down existing rental units, that are actually “affordable in Belvedere” for their tenants of decades(many seniors!), to build new units. I.E. Mallard Point or Belvedere Land Co.
Juliette DR
almost 2 years ago
The request by the state to add 160 new housing units to Belvedere between 2023-2031 is totally unreasonable. There simply is not enough buildable land or space for parking additional vehicles. Much of the land is vertical, and our roads are narrow and winding with many dangerous blind intersections. It is very difficult to navigate our roads in 2022, and every day I witness situations where emergency vehicles would not be able to fit through the tight spaces created by parked cars and service vehicles. Adding 160 new units would create a threat to the safety of the population of Belvedere.
Carol Anderson
almost 2 years ago
When it approved the Housing Element's prior iteration in 2015, the City adopted express findings that all new development under the Element would be fully consistent with then-current General Plan and Zoning requirements. To avoid any potential confusion or uncertainty going forward, the City should likewise take care to ensure that the new Housing Element remains fully consistent with the current General Plan and Zoning Code, including the recently adopted Objective Design and Development Standards (ODDS), and then reaffirm this fact in new express findings when it adopts the new Element. Thank you, John Hansen, Chair, Belvedere Residents for Intelligent Growth.
It makes no sense to demolish existing housing units to make more expensive ones that the community cannot afford. I think that adding ADU can make sense providing adequate parking can be found, increasing transportation and services for the elderly. Priority should be given to local workers to reduce their commute.
**See Figure D-1, Sites Maps 1,2,3,4. This proposal would add aprox. 150 new homes into this already hazardous Flood Zone next to our City park displacing all those long term tenants who would, likely, not be able to afford to live in the new high-priced "low cost" housing proposed to be built units/homes. Existing health and safety issues in this particular area already include overcrowded exit plan (fire,flood,earthquake,first responders), traffic, parking, utilities, etc.
IMHO-
•Belvedere should be exempt as an island, with limited resources such as water, land & emergency roads.
•Residents could offer their homes as having a “potential ADU” to get to the 160 mandate.
•These additional homes added should go first & foremost to the existing local Belvedere residents & local workers that keep our Belvedere community alive! I.E. Teachers, policeman, firemen, nurses & local business owners.
•Please do not knock down existing rental units, that are actually “affordable in Belvedere” for their tenants of decades(many seniors!), to build new units. I.E. Mallard Point or Belvedere Land Co.
The request by the state to add 160 new housing units to Belvedere between 2023-2031 is totally unreasonable. There simply is not enough buildable land or space for parking additional vehicles. Much of the land is vertical, and our roads are narrow and winding with many dangerous blind intersections. It is very difficult to navigate our roads in 2022, and every day I witness situations where emergency vehicles would not be able to fit through the tight spaces created by parked cars and service vehicles. Adding 160 new units would create a threat to the safety of the population of Belvedere.
When it approved the Housing Element's prior iteration in 2015, the City adopted express findings that all new development under the Element would be fully consistent with then-current General Plan and Zoning requirements. To avoid any potential confusion or uncertainty going forward, the City should likewise take care to ensure that the new Housing Element remains fully consistent with the current General Plan and Zoning Code, including the recently adopted Objective Design and Development Standards (ODDS), and then reaffirm this fact in new express findings when it adopts the new Element. Thank you, John Hansen, Chair, Belvedere Residents for Intelligent Growth.
This is an example comment sentence.