Planning Commission 03/13/2024 - Mar 13, 2024
meeting
Prince William County Planning Commission
4h 45m
5 speakers
8 agenda items
transcribed 7 days ago
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Mark McCaskill from our office and I will be tag-teaming this presentation and we will start off with Mark. Thank you, Chair and Planning Commissioners. Let's see, is this adjusted properly to where you can hear me? Okay, I'll be starting off with some of the background of affordable housing and why we need affordable housing and then I'll turn it over to David when we get to the parts that I wasn't at the county for yet when the last conference of plan was being constructed and the housing chapter and all of that. So the agenda for today is like I said is the background and then I'll turn it over to David for the conference of plan chapter and then he'll talk about next steps. But I'll give you a little preview of next steps.
This work session is just a background because you will have another work session that'll be two hours long that'll get into like the deep dive into the meat of the draft ordinance and other things. And then you will have a public hearing as well. So this is not the only opportunity. This is just kind of the tee up and the framing of the background and then you'll have those other two opportunities. plus your regular meetings and so on and so forth.
How is affordable housing defined and why is it needed?
So what is affordable housing? These definitions of affordable housing have been around for decades. They're used in federal and state programs from housing and urban development, state programs from both Virginia Housing and DHCD, Department of Housing and Community Development. We've got two state agencies both that have different roles within housing. And the general consensus on all of those programs and all of those funding sources is that people should, if possible, pay no more than 30% of their gross incomes on housing costs. And affordable housing are those below the area median income who can find housing at no more than 30%. of their gross incomes. So the area median income for the Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area is updated yearly and we get charts based on household size and other factors of what not only the median income is but what 80% of the median income, what 60% of the median income, what 50% of the median income, it all comes on these charts that are
Department of Housing and Community Development gets as the housing agency. And it's not, we get those charts because it's not as simple as like multiplying .8 times the median because that would be a uniform distribution. That would be everybody's equally likely to have the same, you know, an equal likely number of ranges of incomes. So a real distribution is probably more like, and I don't know what the distribution is, more like at least a bell curve, like you saw in school, or maybe some sort of skewed tail distribution of some other sort, like a Poisson or some form of a binomial or something like that. So that's the reason we get these tables, because it's not just as simple as saying 80% times the median, or 60% times the median.
The tables tell you where where that income is and 80% of the people at that are below, you know, type of thing. And then, so housing costs not to exceed 30% of the gross income. Why is this important? And Prince William County, we get these questions a lot. Well, there are many reasons, but here are some of the most recurring reasons. One is aging in place. Demographics, baby boomers, I think the baby boom cohort hit peak retirement either last year or this year, but it was one of these years that the most retirees are coming on. Affordable housing is important for aging in place for those who want to be in their same communities as they've always been. It's important for quality of life, and this isn't just something we have up here as a nice to say.
Our colleagues in the economic development industry, not just PwC's economic development, but economic development in general, they tell us all the time that housing has become such a quality of life issue that it's edged out all of these other, you know, recreation and activities and all of these other things that used to define quality of life.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
1:15–2:46
2
How is affordable housing defined and why is it needed?
2:46–1:03:58
3
What regional planning and housing goals are presented?
1:03:58–2:05:41
4
What is the proposed solar energy facility and its key details?
2:05:41–2:36:33
5
What are the tax, depreciation, and easement issues being discussed for the solar project?
2:36:33–2:59:07
6
How does the conversation shift to family subdivision plans, land ownership, and access easements?
2:59:07–3:55:06
7
Why are commissioners requesting input from the Sustainability Commission and what are the public‑comment motions?
3:55:06–4:43:12
8
What bylaws, procedural changes, and efficiency measures are being proposed before adjournment?
4:43:12–4:44:42
Speakers
5 identified
Dale Polen Myers 14 min
Christopher Carroll 10 min
Karla Justice 5 min
Mark Scheufler 5 min
Raheel Sheikh 1 min
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