Resolution 13722d'1
CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO, 13 7 2 2
ESTABLISHING AFFORDABLE HOUSING GUIDELINES FOR
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council adopts the following standards for the development of
Inclusionary Units, as required by the City's Housing Element, City of Alameda Municipal Code
Section 30 -16 and Community Improvement Commission Resolution No. 04 -128 Establishing
an Inclusionary Housing Policy for the Alameda Point Improvement Project, and Community
Improvement Commission Resolution No. 04 -127 Establishing an Inclusionary Housing Policy
for the Business and Waterfront and West End Community Improvement Projects.
• Inclusionary Units shall be reasonably dispersed throughout the residential
development unless concentration of units furthers some affordable housing purpose.
• Inclusionary Units shall be comparable in overall number of bedrooms, proportion of
units in each bedroom category, quality of exterior appearance and overall quality of
construction to market rate units in the same residential development.
• Inclusionary Units and associated lot improvements shall blend with the market rate
units, so it is not readily apparent from the exterior which are the Inclusionary Units
and which are market rate.
• The City encourages developers to offer equivalent market rate products to any
inclusionary product.
• Interior features and finishes in Inclusionary Units shall be durable, of good quality
and consistent with contemporary standards for new housing.
• The City encourages developers to make Inclusionary Units accessible to or adaptable
for persons with physical limitations of all types.
• The City encourages developers to use a lottery to select buyers for the Inclusionary
Units. If a different selection process is proposed, this process shall be described in
the Affordable Housing Plan.
Section 2. This resolution shall become effective (a) as to the Alameda Point
Improvement Project on the effective date of that resolution adopted on June 1, 2004 entitled A
Resolution of the Community Improvement Commission of the City of Alameda Establishing an
Inclusionary Housing Policy for the Alameda Point Improvement Project, (b) as to the Business
and Waterfront and West End Community Improvement Projects on the effective date of that
resolution adopted on June 1, 2004 entitled A Resolution of the Community Improvement
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Commission of the City of Alameda Establishing an Inclusionary Housing Policy for the
Business and Waterfront and West End Community Improvement Projects, and (c) as to the
remainder of the City, as of the effective date of that ordinance introduced on June 1, 2004 and
entitled An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Alameda Adding Section 30 -16,
Inclusionary Housing Requirement for Residential Projects, to the City of Alameda Municipal
Code.
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting of the City Council
on the 1 g day of June, 2004, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Gilmore, Kerr, Matarrese, and
Mayor Johnson - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this
2 °a day of June, 2004.
/AVD, (I/ :/
Lara Weisiger, City
City of Alameda