Palo Alto City Council is reviewing our housing work plan tonight at 7:45. The plan was tabled all last year and staff has a backlog of 25+ housing assignments. The NIMBY interpretation of this data: we're doing fine on market-rate housing, so no more! cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/f…
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Replying to @PaloAltoYimby @penforeveryone @paloaltoforward @SouthBayYIMBY @HousingValley @SVatHome @bufordsharkley @cynthiablee
Fun fact: for 2015-2017, city counted some non-deed-restricted moderate-income homes. 2018-present, city counted all market-rate as above-moderate. This change kept Palo Alto from being subject to 10%-affordable SB35 streamlining. (screenshot from link in tweet I'm replying to)

Feb 4, 2020 · 1:35 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @PaloAltoYimby @penforeveryone @paloaltoforward @SouthBayYIMBY @HousingValley @SVatHome @bufordsharkley @cynthiablee
I think the difference was in how ADUs were counted, although I can't find enough detail in the 2015-2017 reports to be sure. (And ADUs were a majority of above-moderate in 2018, and I suspect in 2019 too.)
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Yeah I vaguely remember discussion of ADUs being counted as moderate income. Would be interested to see a breakdown by unit type (how many non-ADU or SFH?)
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Replying to @davidbaron @penforeveryone @paloaltoforward @SouthBayYIMBY @HousingValley @SVatHome @bufordsharkley @cynthiablee
This is an extremely unfun fact David. I wonder what @California_HCD thinks about these kinds of shenanigans.
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I've tried to parse the text in SB35, etc., to figure out how a city should determine whether a non-deed-restricted home is affordable to those with moderate incomes. It's... not especially clear?
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