Planning Commission Work Session - Apr 17, 2024

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What is the purpose of the Affordable Dwelling Unit Ordinance work session?

David McGettigan 5:54

and Director Washington. Thank you for coming for this work session on the affordable dwelling unit ordinance. We're hoping to get all the citizen engagement wrapped up by the end of the month. and bring this to you, uh, as a, uh, for public hearing on May 22nd.

Qwendolyn N. Brown 6:28

Can I just jump in really briefly before we

David McGettigan 6:31

proceed

Qwendolyn N. Brown 6:31

Tanya Washington, a planning director with the planning office, excuse me, as Mr. McGettigan noted, uh, we've just completed, uh, three earlier this month, we completed three, uh, public meetings to get community feedback on a draft. affordable dwelling unit ordinance. We held two meetings in person at the Prolozzo building and then at George Mason University so we made sure we were covered in different parts of the county and we also held a virtual meeting as well that got quite a bit of attendance and participation. We've also been doing stakeholder meetings with various stakeholders in the development industry with affordable housing advocates and I also want to acknowledge in the audience We have Deputy County Executive Wade Hugh, Deputy County Executive Elijah Johnson, and Housing Office Director Joan Duckett.

Qwendolyn N. Brown 7:25

We've all been working as a team on this initiative and have all played a role in helping to draft the language as well as working with the county attorney's office as well as doing the stakeholder and community engagement. So want to acknowledge that this is very much a team effort. And as David noted, we also have an online comment form for anyone in the community to provide comments on the draft ordinance, and that is still available through April 30th, so there's still time, if anyone's watching, to fill out that form. And at the end of our presentation, we have the links as well as a QR code where someone can pull that up to take a look at it. And we also have meeting materials on our website and the recording of the virtual meeting that we held on April 3rd, or April 4th.

Unknown 8:16

Thank you very much, ma'am. Is Commissioner Shifer online? Okay.

8:22

I'm Carol.

Unknown 8:23

I'm sorry. Commissioner Carol. My fault. All right, Mr. McGinney. The floor is yours.

David McGettigan 8:29

All right.

Unknown 8:30

Thank you.

David McGettigan 8:31

So, I'll leave my presentation on the way. There we go. All right, thank you, I'm back. Again, I'm David McGettigan from the Planning Office. So just what we're going to be going over tonight, we're going to talk about the types of development likely to result from the Affordable Dwelling Unit Ordinance, the economic situation affecting housing right now, recent stakeholder questions and feedback to keep in mind during our discussion. And then we're going to do a deep dive into the draft ordinance and all the components of it. Then we'll talk a little bit about the timeline and next steps. and then have time at the end for discussion and questions. So the type of housing we're likely to get is a wide variety.

David McGettigan 9:30

We can get everything from townhouses to mid-rise apartments, multifamily. We're unlikely to get skyscrapers or high-rise towers. Through this this ordinance. It's just not the type of development that is is likely to be built in Prince William County So we're thinking that this low to mid scale multifamily and some duplex triplex Maybe some single-family detached. That's that's a small lot And the reason we're here is because we have a shortfall of housing, not only that's been built in the last 10 years, 15 years. It's not conducive, one, to our economic development goals because employers want to have places that are affordable where their employees can live. And it's causing reduced quality of life for county residents because of the high cost of housing, both rental and for purchase.

David McGettigan 10:45

We have regional housing targets developed by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, which we participate in, of 320,000 housing units between 2020 and 2030. And this is... 75,000 units beyond the forecast units in the area. And this is just to accommodate all the expected job growth that is expected in the region that is going to require housing. So this translate into Prince William County's housing targets of about 26,000 housing units by the year 2030.