City Council on 2024-03-19 5:00 PM - SPECIAL MEETING

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What is covered in the opening roll call and meeting introduction?

Wayne Chen 4:06

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the study session of the Mountain View City Council for March 19th, 1924. Roll call, please.

Unknown 4:18

Council Member Abacoga? Here. Council Member Hicks? Here. Council Member Ramirez?

Pat Showalter 4:22

Here.

Unknown 4:23

Council Member Ramos? Here. Vice Mayor Matichak? Here.

Pat Showalter 4:27

Mayor Showalter?

Unknown 4:29

Here. You have a quorum with Council Member Kamei

Wayne Chen 4:30

absent.

Unknown 4:31

Thank

Wayne Chen 4:32

you. All right, well, item three is study session, and it's 3.1, the Displacement Response Strategy Acquisition Preservation of Community Ownership Action Plan and Other Efforts. There's going to be Chinese and Spanish translation services available for this item, so we will now hear from our Chinese interpreter.

Unknown 4:55

Thank you. Now we'll hear

Wayne Chen 5:18

from our Spanish interpreter.

Unknown 5:22

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Wayne Chen 5:36

Thank you. The purpose of this study session is to receive council feedback on the approach to advance the acquisition and preservation efforts, community ownership action plan, and other efforts to address tenant displacement. Housing Director Wayne Chen will present the item. And he's joined on the dais by community development director Don Cameron, thank you. Good evening, thank you, Mayor and Council. Again, Wayne Chen, your Housing Director, thank you for this item and also would like to thank the community and stakeholders who have been part of this process for the wide range of input and perspectives and your time and energy in your participation. Tonight's study session focuses on the next phase of the tenant displacement response strategy.

Wayne Chen 6:39

This slide shows all of the actions that have occurred prior to date, including the October 2023 study session focused on local replacement requirements.

Wayne Chen 6:56

This next phase includes the three focus areas that are listed in the city's housing element related to displacement response programs. They are reorganized in these three focus areas for ease of review. The first focus area is acquisition preservation, which includes unit and project goals as well as funding goals. The second focus area is the community ownership action plan. And the third focus area is a collection of other efforts. Just a quick note that the items related to tenant relocation assistance ordinance, evaluating the allowable rent increases for the mobile home rent stabilization ordinance and monitoring SB 330 and legislation are ongoing items. They will begin shortly and they will be coordinated with the rent stabilization division.

Wayne Chen 7:52

The presentation tonight will focus on alternatives to displacement. These are the three focus areas, as mentioned, and we'll start with acquisition preservation. Just to reiterate, the strategy is really focused on CSFRA units because the issue of tenant displacement has been primarily a result of the demolition and redevelopment of such buildings and units. The goal is for mission-oriented organizations, and as illustrative examples, nonprofit developers, community land trusts, tenant groups, et cetera, to be able to acquire CSFRA units and buildings to essentially restrict them to affordable levels and to operate the units. There can be a wide variety of scenarios, but the three general scenarios are really to acquire the units and operate them as income-restricted units,

Wayne Chen 8:47

A version of that is to operate those units for a period of time, but to redevelop them into brand new affordable units that could get more units onto the site later on. Both of these scenarios are likely to include some level of renovations or rehab because these properties tend to be older and some are a lot older than others. So the funding and the feasibility that is required for these projects, that would need to be factored in. The third general scenario is to preserve the units and then convert them into ownership units. Back in 2019 and 2020, we noted for Council that there were at least three major areas to evaluate a high impact acquisition preservation program. The first item is evaluating feasibility and funding sources.