At the October 14 City Council Meeting, the Council will receive an update on the status and next steps of Concord’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rezoning Project. The AFFH Rezoning Project involves the selection of properties in higher resource neighborhoods to be included in a new zoning overlay district that will make the properties eligible to be developed with multi-family housing.
The update will focus on changes in law and will not include a site selection discussion. One important change in law is that local rezoning actions that implement an approved Housing Element no longer require environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act. Because Concord’s AFFH zoning overlay project is a program within their certified Housing Element, the City does not need to prepare an EIR or other environmental review for this rezoning.
Due to limited seating, residents are strongly encouraged to stream the City Council meeting online via the City’s website or watch on Concord TV; however, please note that public comment will not be taken via remote viewing. You can view the meeting online at www.Cityofconcord.org/TV. If you would like to submit a comment before the meeting, you may do so by emailing the City Clerk at cityclerk@cityofconcord.org.
What problem are we trying to fix? The current housing is unfair? Some unintended consequences will be houses getting grabbed by investment groups/out of country buyers who will bulldoze the property and put the maximum amount of units on the property. People in nearby single family homes will be in the shadows of the new buildings. The remaining properties value will be reduced making it more lucrative for the investment groups/out of country buyers. The rent prices will allow a steady return for the investors who will never live within 100 miles of this area which will deteriorate quickly.
just keep letting all the filth and trash spill over from Antioch and Pittsburg and then wonder why concord is going and already is in the Sh!tter
USA JIM,
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Some Concord City Councilmembers have admitted that Concord is attracting new residents from Oakland, while longterm Concord residents are being pushed out of Concord to Pittsburg, Antioch, and further out to east county.
The wording in the proposal itself literally mentions “affluent” and “mostly white” neighborhoods being targeted.
My son who works fulltime for the government delivering mail and is married, has a 2 year old daughter and doesn’t qaulify for the brand new 4-1 bedroom units in the middle of downtown Concord because you can only make a maximum of $24,000.00 a year. He and his family should be exactly who these units are intended for but we all know with that low of a threshold who exactly these brand new state of the art accomodations are for. Fix that instead artificially raising the income for people up to 20/hour to push a button…feckless worthless leaders like Mark DeSalnier that do SQUAT for their constituents keep holding idiotic town hall meetings to cry about an administration that at least is doing something for the everyday citizen.
Dude don’t you know better? Those units are for the connected, not Pleebs like you ,me, and our families. I know of one guy that tried to get into low income housing in Walnut Creek, but he did not qualify because he didn’t make enough money. Go Figure.
That is not what it says on the city of concord website. The lowest income limit is $33,600 and that is for only 1 person.
Look again and get your glasses prescription changed because that is exactly what my wife and I read.
Driving down house prices . . . . . .
The fair housing fiasco is the second-worst insult the (expletive deleted) city council has done to Concord.
The first being the Navel Weapons station money pit.
But when most of the voters vote for the candidate with the best-looking signs, what else would one expect?
Voters have no one to blame but themselves.
Abe,
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The Concord City Council hasn’t done this to the City of Concord, this was mandated by the State of California, and it was the state that defined the areas of Concord where rezoning is to take place. The only city willing to put up a fight against the State of California having to do with the state mandated housing requirements has been the City of Huntington Beach, all other city councils just fall in line to the demands of their State Overlords because they all have dreams of higher office. You can also thank the lying, cheating, corrupt, preacher, and State Senator Tim Grayson and his YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) Overlord Campaign Contributors who control him for forcing more high-density housing upon us.
whenwilltheylearn,
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It was the State of California who defined the areas of Concord where rezoning is to take place. The Concord City Council has repeatedly said that the only properties that will receive the additional layover high-density zoning in addition to current zoning will be the properties where the owners have expressed an interest in having their properties receive the additional layover zoning.
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.
Did Kamola Hairus come up with that title?
Cautiously Informed,
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AFFH is part of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, so it was likely titled by the Lyndon Johnson Administration or the Democratic Party led House and/or Senate.
They.re just doing lip service to the public so they can say they kept the public informed and allowed for citizen input… they’re going to do whatever they want just like the surrounding communities – Concord isn’t alone doing it