For City Council Meeting July 25, 2023
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Arron Brown, Acting City Manager
FROM: Colby Cataldi, Director of Community Development
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Request City Council to Conduct a Public Hearing to Adopt Resolution No. 8116 (Attachment A) Ratifying Adoption of the City of Rialto 2021-2029 (Sixth Cycle) General Plan Housing Element Update (General Plan Amendment No. 2021-0002).
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BACKGROUND
The California State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) requires that all California cities adopt and periodically submit an updated Housing Element as part of their General Plans for review and determination of compliance with State law. In 2021 and 2022, the City conducted a planning process resulting in a draft 2021-2029 (Sixth Cycle) Housing Element Update (Housing Element), which was reviewed by the Planning Commission at a regularly scheduled Public Hearing on February 9, 2022. Thereafter, on March 8, 2022, the City Council adopted the Housing Element and staff submitted it to HCD for their review for compliance with State law. HCD found it to not be compliant and, as a result, the City prepared revisions to the adopted Housing Element. The amended Housing Element was conditionally approved by HCD on February 28, 2023 and was adopted as amended by the City Council on the same day.
Following adoption, the City received a letter from Inland Counties Legal Services and the Public Interest Law Project claiming that the amended Housing Element should have gone back to the Planning Commission for their review and recommendation to the City Council. Out of an abundance of caution, the Planning Division returned the Planning Commission on May 31, 2023. The Planning Commission conducted a Public Hearing, considered testimony, and adopted a resolution recommending that the City Council ratify adoption of the Housing Element.
The Housing Element is available at:
https://www.yourrialto.com/DocumentCenter/View/40...
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