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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda - Affordable Housing Committee - 07/20/2022South Burlington Affordable Housing Committee Room #310 at 180 Market St South Burlington, VT 05403 AGENDA Participation Options In Person: Room #310 – 3rd Floor – 180 Market St Assistive Listening Service Devices Available upon request Electronically: https://meet.goto.com/SouthBurlingtonVT/affordable-housing07-20-2022 You can also dial in using your phone. +1 (408) 650-3123 Access Code: 532-541-205 Wednesday July 20, 2022 6:00 PM 1.***Call to order, Agenda review and approval, Approve meeting minutes from June 15, 2022, Public comment on items not on the agenda (10m) 2.Member introductions (30m) 3.Elect a Chair, Vice-Chair, and Clerk. Current chair will preside until this point. (10m) 4.City Manager update (10m) 5.Review of relevant City Policies (30m)a.Bylaws for Committees Established by the South Burlington City Councilb.Conflict of Interest and Ethics Policy for Elected and Appointed Officials 6.***FY2023 Policies and Priorities Discussion and subcommittee assignments (30m) 7.Adjourn June 15, 2022, SoBu Affordable Housing Committee Minutes – DRAFT Page 1 Prepared on July 13, 2022 Next meeting: Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 6:00 p.m. City Hall or online AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE June 15, 2022, 6:00 p.m., meeting held online and at City Hall Members attending: Janet Bellavance, Leslie Black-Plumeau, Sandy Dooley, Ariel Jensen-Vargas (left at 7:30), Darrilyn Peters, Minelle Sarfo-Ado, and Chris Trombly; members absent: Vince Bolduc Patrick O’Brien, and John Simson; Also present: Jessie Baker, City Manager;; Meaghan Emery, City Councilor AGENDA 1.Call to order, agenda review, approval of 5/18/22 AHC meeting minutes from, announcements, public comment2.City Manager Update3.Discuss and possible action - FY22 Policy and Priorities Update4.Discuss and possible action - FY23 Policy and Priorities5.Planning Session to determine how to accomplish FY23 Priorities6.Adjourn 1.Call to order, agenda review, approval of 3/28/22 AHC meeting minutes, announcements, public comment Call to order: Chris called the meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. Agenda review: Darrilyn moved and Leslie seconded motion to approve agenda as proposed. Approved: 6-0-0 Approval of minutes: Darrilyn moved and Janet seconded motion that the 5/18/22 meeting minutes be approved with the following amendments: correction to Governor’s role vis-à-vis legislation that included a rental registry, and addition of information about Jessie’s provision (in chat) of link to DRB memo re committees’ review of application before DRB. Approved: 6-0-0 Announcements: None Public Comments: None 2.City Manager Update: Jessie’s report included the following:a.one person attended the pre-meeting for the $1 million ARPA fund RFP,b.at its 6/6/22 meeting, the City Council approved the survey for gathering input from the public re how to use the remaining ARPA funds,c.comments of U-Mall representative who attended Economic Development Committee meeting had strong focuson housing,d.she recently attended a Champlain Housing Trust retreat,e. the City Council & City Leadership retreat re FY23 policies and priorities is scheduled for evening of 7/11/22with in-person-only attendance,f.Form-Based Codes height restriction, if not modified, will affect U-Mall developers’ options. Following Jessie’s report, Darrilyn raised subject of committees’ participation in development of the Comprehensive Plan update and expressed disappoint that, based on what she has read so far, committees’ participation will be limited. Jessie indicated that committees will have ample opportunity to participate in update of Comprehensive Plan. . 3.Discuss and possible action - FY22 Policy and Priorities Update: The committee reviewed the latest draft of the column titled “FY22 Update (June 2022)” of the FY22 Policy Priorities & Strategies/Adopted by Council11/15/21 document. Darrilyn then moved and Leslie seconded motion to approve this column of the document aspresented. Approved: 6-0-0 (Minelle had not yet joined the meeting.) 4.Discuss and possible action - FY23 Policy Priorities & Strategies: Sandy reviewed how the subgroup (Chris,Darrilyn, Janet, Leslie, and Sandy) had worked together, including two Zoom meetings, to develop the latest draft of the proposed FY23 priorities and strategies. Ariel noted the absence of anything in this draft related to rentersand shared personal experiences as a renter and how she found no available remedies to address problems. June 15, 2022, SoBu Affordable Housing Committee Minutes – DRAFT Page 2 She advocated for the committee to address safety and security (the fact that a tenant has no assurance of being able to stay in their unit as long as they would like, even if they pay their rent and comply with all the rules) of housing, in addition to affordability. A lengthy discussion of renter and related issues followed, which, among others, included these topics: “Let the buyer beware” situation for prospective home-buyers and renters, where does tenant go with complaints about landlord behavior, need to support folks in adding ADUs to their homes (making them more affordable), consumer protection for prospective renters and home-buyers, mediation service, renter advisory panel, mention that CHT has a renter advisory committee, Winooski’s rental registry handles complaints and visits every four years to determine code compliance, and bad press that at times brings attention to noncompliance and generates corrective action, and gentrification that makes rental situation worse for lower and middle income households. Other subjects mentioned include Winooski’s equity audit and committee’s FY23 recommendation for SoBu to commission similar audit in place of impact assessment audit the committee recommended for FY22 but was not implemented. Committee agreed on the following changes to the draft FY22 Policy Priorities & Strategies/Adopted by Council 11/15/22 document presented: (a)In first box under Recommended FY23 Priorities for Committee column, add “safe, secure, and” before“affordable”(b)In first box under FY23 Proposed Strategies/Projects column, add “Identify renter-related and home-buyerprotection strategies to pursue in FY24.”(c)In second box under FY23 Proposed Strategies/Projects column, delete “in collaboration with the EconomicDevelopment committee.” (d)Include in the Recommended FY23 Priorities for Committee column all strategies stated in the FY23 ProposedStrategies/Projects column that propose additional spending or staff. This change is in response to input fromJessie that the FY23 Proposed Strategies/Projects column would not be included in document provided to CityCouncil and councilors need to be informed of proposals for additional spending of staff. Sandy moved and Arial seconded motion that the draft FY22 Policy Priorities & Strategies/Adopted by Council 11/15/21 document, incorporating the modifications agreed to, be approved for submission to the City Council. Motion approved: 7-0-0. 5.Planning Session to determine how to accomplish FY23 Priorities: Darrilyn reiterated her question of what isrole of committees in development of Comprehensive Plan update? Planning Commission (PC) discussion ofthis subject at 5/24/22 meeting was mentioned. The PC will devote one of its meetings each month to working on the Comprehensive Plan update. Need for a Housing Needs Assessment to be done as part of ComprehensivePlan work was stressed. Jessie reiterated that committees will have ample opportunity to participate in update ofComprehensive Plan. . Members present recognized they did not have enough time to develop a FY23 plan but agreed for need to have subcommittees work between meetings to make progress toward achievement of goals. Sandy and Janet agreed to work with Chris on developing a list of proposed subcommittees linked to committee goals. As accomplishing goals requires people to do the work, attention turned to fact that committee would be losing two valued members, Patrick O’Brien and Minelle Sarfo-Ado. Members thanked Minelle for her important contributions to the committee’s work and for being responsible for the CC’s new policy allowing residents younger than 18 to be appointed to committees. Minelle expressed appreciation to committee for their support of her work and added that she will be attending Antioch College in California in the fall, pursuing a Business/Real Estate major. Members were unable to thank Patrick as he did not attend the meeting. Mention was also made of former committee member Paula DeMichele’s recent passing and the contributions of former committee members to her obituary in Seven Days. 6.Adjourn: (7:58 p.m.) Darrilyn moved and Janet seconded motion to adjourn meeting. Approved: 6-0-0. Proposed Subcommittees For 2022-2023 Subcommittee Goals Members of Subcommittee Timeline Whole Committee at Monthly Meetings 1.Review proposals received in response to ARPA RFP and make recommendation (may requirea subgroup meeting to support work of whole committee) . 2.Provide input regarding how to invest remaining ARPA funds to address housing and climatechange crises, such as weatherization. Policy, Regulations & Legislation Subcommittee 1.Provide input to the Climate Action Task Force on the content and recommendations included in the Task Force’s Report. 2.Jointly with Economic Development Committee, review proposed Short-term Rental ordinanceand make recommendation to the City Council. 3.Advocate for change to SEQ LDR that limits density to 1.8 units per acre on lots smaller than 4acres. Comprehensive Plan Subcommittee 1.Participate in update of City’s Comprehensive Plan, including advocacy for a Housing NeedsAssessment. 2.Propose inclusion of Equity chapter in update of Comprehensive Plan. Renter and Related Issues Subcommittee 1.Research issues related to long term rentals (cost, safety, security) and educate entirecommittee. 2.Identify renter-related and home-buyer protection strategies to pursue in FY24. Redevelopment Subcommittee 1.Joint project of Redevelopment subcommittee and members of Economic DevelopmentCommittee to identify (1) opportunities for and barriers to redevelopment of underutilized andvacant properties; (2) regulations that prevent higher density housing development, especially multifamily housing development; and/or (3) strategies to increase developers’ capacity to exceed the City’s Inclusionary Zoning requirement. Make recommendations as appropriate. Advocacy, Outreach,& Monitoring 1.Propose using ARPA funds for a Housing Needs Assessment. Advocate for additional Citystaff dedicated to community, housing, and economic development. 2.Request that City Council use ARPA funds to commission an Equity Audit, in collaboration withthe School District. 3.Encourage City staff to continue their work toward making City-owned land at 575 Dorset Streetavailable for development as affordable housing and monitor these efforts. 4.Advocate for City-sponsored activities that commemorate Fair Housing Month (April 2023)