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Appoint eleven members to the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee and adopt Resolution 14-26.
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SUMMARY:
Florida Statute Section 420.9076 states that counties and cities receiving State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program funds are required to re-establish an Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC) and prepare a Local Housing Incentive Strategy (LHIS). The statute further provides that the committee be made up of eleven members and that the City appoint the eleven members by resolution. The eleven members must represent a specific industry or a specific group.
The required groups and recommended individuals are listed below:
· Residential home building: Michael Potts
· Banking industry/mortgage: Linda Kemp
· Area of labor engaged in home building: Ronald Spoor
· Advocate for low-income person: Lisa Hughes
· For-profit provider of affordable housing: Peter Leach
· Not-for-profit provider of affordable housing: Jacqueline Rivera
· Real estate professional engaged in affordable housing: Peggy Cutcomb
· Member of the local planning agency: Michael Boutzoukas
· Clearwater resident: Vicki Adelson
· Employers representative: Kristin Dailey
· Essential Services representative: Bob Clifford
The duties of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee shall include reviewing policies and procedures, ordinances, land development regulations and the City's adopted comprehensive plan and shall recommend specific actions or initiatives to encourage or facilitate affordable housing while protecting the ability of the property to appreciate in value. The recommendations may include the modification or repeal of existing policies, procedures, ordinances, regulations, or plan provisions; the creation of exceptions applicable to affordable housing, or the adoption of the new policies, procedures, regulations, ordinances, or plan provisions, including recommendations to amend local government comprehensive plan and corresponding regulations, ordinances, and other policies. The report must be submitted to the City Council by December 31, 2014. The reports are due triennially on December 31 of the year preceding the submission of the Local Housing Assistance Plan. The report shall evaluate the implementation of affordable housing incentives in several areas including the processing of approvals of development orders or permits, as defined in s. 163.3164(7) and (8), for affordable housing projects is expedited to a greater degree than other projects and the modification of impact-fee requirements, including reduction or waiver of fees and alternative methods of fee payment for affordable housing.
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