CC 03-16-2021 Item No. 16 2020 General Plan Annual Report and Annual Housing Element Progress Report_Staff PresentationCity Council
March 16, 2021
General Plan Annual Review
Report
CC 03-16-2021 Item No. 16
General Plan Annual Update
•Required by State Law
•Two parts
•Progress on the General Plan
policies
•Housing Element APR on forms
from CA HCD
Elements of General Plan
Mandatory Elements Optional Elements
Land Use (Chapter 3)Infrastructure (Chapter 8)
Circulation (Chapter 5)
Housing (Chapter 4)
Conservation (Chapter 6)
Open-space (Chapter 9)
Health and Safety (Chapter 7)
•Noise
•Safety
Environmental Justice (new)
•“Disadvantaged Communities”
•May need policies in future
Why Annual Report?
●Identify Work Program items based on
action items in the General plan
●Ensure appropriate funding is made
available for these action items
2020 Annual Report
●Reviewed by Planning Commission over 3
meetings in 2019/2020
Draft 2020 Annual Report
●No changes to past format
●Green action items that City has acted on.
●Yellow items currently in progress.
●Orange identified as action items, but no
action has been initiated.
●Grey ongoing implementation of
policies/strategies through Municipal Code,
daily activities of staff or City programs.
●Time frame identified –Long Range, Immediate
etc. for policies and strategies
●Updates for 2020 are identified in bold text
PC suggestions
●Generic pandemic policies related to
employee density and common areas (not
COVID specific)
●Require ground floor retail along Vallco
Parkway (at Vallco Special Area) (Fung –no)
●Re-evaluate mix of uses in N. De Anza, S. De
Anza and Bubb Road Special Areas
●Amend LU-27.1 to specify which massing and
form would apply in the event of densification
required by state law in neighborhoods
PC suggestions
●Revise LOS standards for consistency with VMT
thresholds
●Establish consistent aesthetic standards for 5G
infrastructure for all carriers.
General Plan Allocations
Balances
General Plan Annual Housing
Element Progress Report
Background
State law requires CA cities to have an
adopted General Plan with a Housing Element
•Cities must adequately plan to meet existing
and projected housing needs of people at
all income levels
•Cupertino Housing Element 2014-2022
•Certified by HCD on February 5, 2015
•Adopted by City Council on May 19,
2015
Background
●Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA) is
the state-mandated process to identify the
total number of housing units (by affordability
level) that each jurisdiction must
accommodate in its Housing Element
●Each jurisdiction must prepare an annual
progress report on the status and progress in
implementing its Housing Element
RHNA Entitlements By City
Extremely
Low/Very Low
(0-50% of
AMI)
Low Moderate Above
Moderate Total Units (51-80% of
AMI)
(81-120% of
AMI)
(over 120%
AMI)
Projected Need (RHNA)356 207 231 270 1,064
Total RHNA Entitled &
Produced* (2014 -2020)19 -93 216 328
Projects
Entitled by
City
(Not Yet
Produced)
Hamptons -7 30 563 600
Marina 16 -2 170 188
Vallco (SB35)361 840 -1,201 2402
Total Projects Entitled by
City (Not Yet Produced)377 847 32 1934 3190
Balance --106 -106
*Produced means building permits issued
RHNA Generation by Developers
Extremely
Low/Very Low
(0-50% of AMI)
Low Moderate Above
Moderate Total Units
(51-80% of
AMI)
(81-120%
of AMI)
(over 120%
AMI)
Projected Need (RHNA)356 207 231 270 1,064
Total Projects Entitled by
City (Not Yet Produced)377 847 32 1934 3190
Building Permits Applied
for By Developers and
Issued
2015 APR*--14 164 178
2016 APR --18 9 27
2017 APR --12 16 28
2018 APR 19 -15 2 36
2019 APR --15 24 39
2020 APR --19 1 20
Total RHNA Production
(2014-2020)19 -93 216 328
Balance 337 207 138 54 736
* Includes 2014 production
2020 Report
●Reporting Year: Jan. 1 –Dec. 31, 2020
●Must report building permits issued
towards RHNA
●Due April 1, 2021
Table A-
Housing Development Applications Submitted
●Data on housing units and developments for
applications submitted and deemed complete
●“Application” is formal submittal of project for
approval, either for:
●Discretionary entitlement, or
●If only ministerial process required (e.g.,
zoned by right), building permit application
●The Bateh Brothers Property application was
submitted in 2020.
Applications in Review
•Canyon Crossing: 18 units
•13 townhomes (for-sale)
•5 apartments (rental)
Table A2-Annual Building Activity Report Summary -New Construction, Entitled, Permits and Completed Units
●Requires information for very-low, low,
moderate and above moderate-income
housing and for mixed-income projects
●Data on net new housing units and
developments that have received an
entitlement, a building permit or a
certificate of occupancy or other form of
readiness
Table B-RHNA Progress –Permitted Units by Affordability
●Summary of prior permitting activity in
current planning cycle, including
permitting activity for 2020
●Auto-populated
Table C-Sites Identified or Rezoned to
Accommodate Shortfall Housing Need
•Required when a city or county
identified an unaccommodated need of
sites from the previous planning period
•N/A. Cupertino has more than sufficient
sites zoned to accommodate RHNA
numbers.
Table D-Program Implementation Status
•Status/Progress of housing element
program and policy implementation
for all programs described in the
housing element
•Cupertino is currently implementing all
26 programs and policies in the
Housing Element
Table E-Commercial
Development Bonus Approved
●Required if jurisdiction has approved
any commercial development bonuses
during the reporting year
●N/A
Table F-Units Rehabilitated, Preserved and
Acquired for Alternate Adequate Sites
●Report units that have been substantially
rehabilitated, converted from non-affordable to
affordable by acquisition, and preserved
●Projects must be mentioned in Housing Element as
a program specific site to be listed
●N/A. But City has gone beyond Housing Element
and provided $1,400,000 in loans/grants for
rehabilitation projects from 2014 –2020
Table G-Locally Owned Lands included
in Housing Element Sites Inventory
●Report sites that are owned by the
reporting jurisdiction and have been sold,
leased, or otherwise disposed of during
the reporting year
●Sites must be included in the Housing
Element Sites Inventory
●N/A
Questions?