§ 17.40.800. Standards for construction and occupancy of affordable and/or workforce housing.

A.

With the building permit application, the owner/developer shall submit an inclusionary housing plan, which documents the following:

1.

Number of total residential units provided under the site plan.

2.

Whether the development uses public resources or public property.

3.

Number of affordable or workforce housing units provided.

4.

Income levels of targeted families for affordable or workforce housing units.

5.

The proposed rents or sales prices and guarantee of limits on future rent increases or sales prices.

6.

Location of affordable or workforce housing units.

7.

Sizes of affordable or workforce housing units.

8.

Bedroom counts of affordable or workforce housing units.

9.

Market rate pricing or rental rates for comparable units within the census tract for the project site and, if applicable, the in lieu site.

10.

The party responsible for compliance reports, with approval from the office of economic opportunity and empowerment with assistance from the finance department.

B.

To ensure livability, inclusionary housing units shall be at least eighty percent of the average size of market rate units and the breakdown of bedroom counts of inclusionary housing units shall be similar to the breakdown of bedroom counts for the market rate units in the project. After the inclusionary housing square footage is allocated according to the distribution of market rate units, any remaining square footage too small for construction of a unit shall utilize the in lieu contribution option.

C.

Exteriors of inclusionary housing units shall closely resemble the exteriors of other units in a project.

D.

The owner shall ensure to the satisfaction of the metropolitan government that the inclusionary housing units will:

1.

Be occupied by eligible households.

2.

Be maintained as rental inclusionary housing units for a minimum of fifteen years from the date of initial occupancy and/or be maintained as for-sale inclusionary housing unit for thirty years from the date of initial occupancy.

(Ord. BL2016-133 § 1, 2016)