Alex Nunez
speaker
7,337 appearances
30 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 19 Aug
Alex Nunez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 2.
Appearances
The graduated fee reduction could maximize the use or maximize and incentivize the use of SB9 and achieve incrementally more new housing supply than without the graduated fee reduction.
At the November 2025 City Council meeting, Council passed a motion recommending that staff analyze two actions.
The first action was to analyze adjusting the graduated fee reduction to work proportionally with the maximum number of units physically possible for a project.
In order to determine how to calculate this, staff recommends using the base densities allowed under the general plan and zoning designations as well as the provisions of SB 684 to establish the maximum legally allowed density.
The graduated fee reduction would then be scaled proportional to the number of units that are legally allowed.
This approach retains the original intent of the greater the density, the lesser the fee, but then it customizes the approach to site-specific densities.
This table compares two scenarios, the first being a project with the legally allowable maximum density of six units and the second with four.
As you see here, the graduated fee reduction scales accordingly with the number of units that could have been built.
To illustrate, if the developer has a site with a maximum density of six units and opts to develop only four, they would be required to pay a fee of $8,855 per unit versus paying no fees if they were to maximize the density.
The second action was to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating the graduated fee reduction with maximizing the development potential of small sites up to 10 units and return to council with options.
Council directed staff to review projects of up to 10 units because there are state laws that allow by-right subdivisions of up to 10 units under SB 684.
Staff conducted a preliminary evaluation and have determined that additional analysis is required.
We propose doing this through the low and middle income home ownership strategy, since projects of up to 10 units are often oriented towards ownership models, and also to return with options during the 2028 BMR review.
Our final amendment amends the ordinance to allow BMR program, the updates to the BMR program guidelines to occur administratively rather than requiring a council resolution as currently written.
This is also consistent with other guidelines throughout the city.
Council accepted this recommendation.
As a reminder, these are the seven general topics that the EPC is considering this evening.
EPC's recommendation will be presented in the ordinances first and second readings in May and June, respectively, and this results in an effective date of July 9th, 30 days following the second reading.
You may notice that there's been adjustment in the council calendar since the original EPC report was published.
So staff recommend that the EPC recommend council adopt an ordinance amending chapter 36 of the Mountain View City Code as it relates to the BMR program amendments as discussed in this presentation.
Showing 1581–1600 of 7,337 · page 80 of 367
← Previous
Next →