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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND In August 2005, the City Council directed staffto review the existing Residential Condominium Conversions Ordinance (Condominium Ordinance) that has been in place since the late 1980's, to reflect changes in State law and to address the potential community and regional impact of losing affordable rental units. The Council encouraged involvement with apartment owners considering conversion and directed revisions be reviewed by the Housing and Planning Commissions. In establishing the process for reviewing revisions, staff assembled a committee from the Law and Planning departments, the Housing Division and the City Manager's Office, and decided to have the Housing Commission provide much of the work related to reviewing the existing and amended ordinances and conducting public meetings. To that end, the Housing Commission established a review process that included a public workshop to receive comment on the proposed changes. Based on comments from the workshop and its deliberations on the matter, the Commission approved the draft ordinance at its meeting of August 17, 2006. Following the August 17 meeting, the draft ordinance was reviewed by the Planning Commission at its meeting of October 18, 2006. The Planning Commission recommended a number of changes to the ordinances as recommended by the Housing Commission, including removal of the option for moderate income units to qualify as affordable units. The Planning Commission's changes are redlined in the Condominium Ordinance. At this time, the Condominium Ordinance is in final draft form, meaning it incorporates comments received to date from the public, staff, (including the City Attorney and Planning staff), and the Housing and Planning Commissions. Because of the many changes made to this Ordinance, staff did not provide a redlined version showing staff and Housing Commission changes. Rather, for reference, the existing Condominium Ordinance is included as Attachment C. Notwithstanding the above, the redline markings on the final draft of the Ordinance (Attachment A) represents changes recommended by the Planning Commission. As part of the review of the Condominium Ordinance, it became apparent that the City's Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (IZO) would also need to be revised to incorporate the affordable housing requirements included in the revised Condominium Ordinance. As a result, in addition to a review of the revised Condominium Ordinance, staff is requesting review of the changes to the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance. The only amendments recommended to the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance are those that are redlined on Attachment B. The Housing and Planning Commissions have recommended all changes reflected in red. The Planning Commission also recommended removal of the option to meet affordable housing requirements with moderate income housing and this change is reflected with blue markings. These changes are reflected in Exhibit B. SR 06:263 Page 2