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drawings and necessary studies to develop the site, 2) providing 1 64 acres of the site dedicated for multi-family affordable housing to the City with utility connections constructed to the site and the site graded, and 3) providing $1,000,000 to the City to support the development of affordable housing on the subject site Please see the attached Housing Commission staff report (Exhibit E in Attachment 9) and Affordable Housing Agreement (Attachment 6) for additional details and discussion Under the terms of the proposed agreements, the applicant would retain ownership and maintenance responsibilities for the 1 64 acre affordable housing site until such time as the property is needed for the Sunflower Hill development However, the land will need to be transferred to the City before the Certificate of Occupancy for the final home in the single-family portion of the project Growth Management Agreement and Timing The City's Growth Management Ordinance (GMO) regulates the number of residential building permits that can be issued each year in order to assure a predictable growth rate while providing housing and currently allows a total of 235 Growth Management Unit Allocations (GMUAs) per year To date for 2017, a total of 37 GMUAs have been issued which were deferred from the CenterPointe project (PUD-111) and Lund Ranch project (PUD-25) The proposed development would require 87 GMUAs Staff is recommending that growth management allocations be extended out over the next three years to allow for allocations of 19 units in 2017, 59 units in 2018, and 9 units in 2019 If the Council approves the requested GMUAs, a total of 56 GMUAs would be issued to-date for this calendar year, below the allocation limit The Growth Management Agreement for the project is included as Attachment 7 Although the Growth Management Agreement does not directly tie the single-family home development to the Sunflower Hill development, staff believes that the timing of the agreement is consistent with the expressed commitment of Sunflower Hill to move forward diligently with their portion of the project Open Space Connectivity The Planning Commission raised concerns regarding the open space within the center of the project and requested that the open space be increased to allow better visual and pedestrian connectivity between the various parks within the development To do this, the applicant revised the plans by closing off J Street to loop into I Street to create additional open space connectivity (see Figure 3 below) This enlarged the Tree Park area by allowing for a better pedestrian and visual connection between the Central Park and the Tree Park and provided better overall connectivity throughout the site The project would include additional open space areas and amenities throughout the interior of the development as well as a proposed park along the south side of Nevada Street that will include the Zia house All open space areas, including the public trail will be association-owned and maintained, with the parks to be publically accessible from sun-up to sun-down Page 13 of 20