A.
Purpose. The Senior Housing Overlay Zone is intended to facilitate the construction of affordable rental housing units that will serve the current and long-term city need for affordable senior citizen-oriented dwelling units while maintaining a high degree of quality in project design and construction. The zone is further intended, by offering various development incentives, to make the development of senior citizen-oriented affordable units attractive to potential developers while at the same time providing assurances to the city that units developed by use of the incentives offered as part of the overlay zone remain available and affordable to the target group intended—senior citizens of low and moderate incomes.
B.
Applicability. The Senior Housing Overlay Zone may be applied in combination with residential zones. A Senior Housing Overlay Zone shall be indicated on the zoning map by the reference letters "SH" after the reference letter(s) identifying the base zone.
C.
Target population. The primary resident population group that is intended to be served by the units constructed through use of incentives offered as part of the Senior Housing Overlay Zone are senior citizens who meet the following criteria:
D.
Income restriction. In addition to the age restrictions set forth in subsection (C)(1) and (2) of this section, any individual or married couple who wish to occupy or reside in the project shall have and maintain an annual income from all sources equal to or less than 80 percent of the median income for persons or families within the County of San Bernardino as currently defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
E.
Qualifications. The Senior Housing Overlay Zone requires the presence of certain conditions before it can be applied for or attached to a specific parcel of land. In order to adequately and satisfactorily serve the target population that this zone has been created to serve, any proposed project site must demonstrate the following conditions and features:
1.
Appropriate base zone.
2.
Land uses in the immediate and surrounding area, current and projected, must be compatible with the living environment required by senior citizens and must be free of health, safety, or noise problems (e.g., area generally quiet).
4.
Proposed site topography must be fairly level and easily traversed by persons of limited mobility.
F.
Development incentives. In order to reduce development costs associated with the construction of housing oriented toward senior citizens of low and moderate income, the city is prepared to offer a developer some or all of the following incentives, depending upon the quality, size, nature, and scope of the project proposed.
1.
Reduction in required on-site parking. The city will grant a reduction in required on-site parking down to a minimum ratio of 0.7 non-covered parking spaces per unit.
2.
Dwelling unit density bonus. In order to maximize net yield per acre, the city will consider increasing the allowable project density by either granting a 25 percent density bonus to the project site's existing density category (per Government Code § 65915), or by granting a request for a change in density range (per the city's general plan), or both depending on the quality, size, nature, and scope of the project.
3.
Fee waivers/reductions. Projects submitted under the Senior Housing Overlay Zone may receive, depending upon their size, nature, and scope, a reduction or waiver of some or all city-imposed development submittal and processing fees. Such reductions of waivers may affect the following fee schedules:
4.
Fee reductions or waivers are subject to negotiation between the city and the project developer and will be granted based upon that amount of reduction or waiver necessary to place per unit monthly rental costs in the range affordable to the target population.
G.
City/developer agreement. Development incentives granted by the city to a developer using the Senior Housing Overlay Zone are predicated upon the long-term availability and affordability of the units for the target population previously defined. In order to ensure that the units remain available and affordable to this group, the developer will be required to enter into a development agreement with the city per Government Code §§ 65864 through 65869.5.
H.
Administrative guidelines. The city shall establish a process and such administrative guidelines as it shall deem necessary in order to implement the provisions of the Senior Housing Overlay Zone.
(Ord. No. 1000 § 4, 2022)