On Tuesday, March 10, the Concord City Council approved the City’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Program, a key initiative designed to expand equitable housing opportunities and support Concord’s long-term housing strategy.
The AFFH Program fulfills requirements under California state law, which directs jurisdictions to proactively plan for a diverse range of housing opportunities, particularly in higher-resource areas with strong access to employment, education, transit, and community services. Implementation of the program was identified as a commitment in the City’s state-certified 2023–2031 Housing Element.
In Concord, the AFFH program is being implemented through an overlay zoning approach, allowing up to 60 dwelling units per acre on approximately 20 acres of land. The overlay zoning district allows higher-density residential uses in addition to the uses already permitted. This approach enables residential development consistent with the AFFH Program while preserving the underlying zoning regulations and currently permitted uses.
As part of the approval, the City Council amended the Concord Municipal Code to apply the AFFH overlay zoning district to five sites: the former Kmart property; Clayton Faire (near Centre Concord, along Clayton Road); Palm Lake Apartments (780 Oak Grove Road); 5390 Myrtle Drive; and 1539 Kirker Pass Road. In total, the program allows for the potential development of up to 1,000 new housing units across these five sites.
“The AFFH Program represents an important milestone in Concord’s efforts to expand housing opportunities throughout the community,” said Mayor Nakamura. “This program, shaped through robust public engagement, supports the City’s commitment to fair and equitable housing while maintaining flexibility for property owners and ensuring thoughtful growth in areas with strong access to jobs, transportation, and services.”
For more information, please visit www.cityofconcord.org/AFFH.
I think its great thing for that shopping center, it would bring a lot of business to luckys and the surrounding businesses and get some homeless off the street. Go ahead!!!
Indeed it will. Business for PD and store security officers.
stove,
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No evidence or documentation was provided to the City of Concord that building high-density housing on this site would “bring a lot of business to Luckys and surrounding businesses and get some homeless off the streets.” However, Dollar Tree would likely see an increase in business.
Pull Police calls for service from 2021 forward and put together a
report using NIBRS Crime Categories and Offenses for area
bounded by Treat Blvd, Clayton Road, Alberta Way, Ygnacio
Valley Road. and Cowell Road. Furnish that report to Concord
City Council so they might realize the amount of additional
crime they might be be creating. They might also want to
increase Police budget, so that additional sworn positions
might be budgeted for other additional high density in
going forward. An just for fun calculate crime versus
single family lot size.
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Unfortunately, some city councils develop tunnel vision
buying into the almost ponzi like thinking when contemplating
additional high density housing seeing only dollar signs
of additional revenue. Forgetting they are required to
provide city services to each housing unit.
Those services are at an ever increasing cost due to
increasing cost of labor and materials.
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antioch is a prime example of an attempt to build
out of budget problems. Sycamore corridor is
prime example of high density crime creation.
High crime areas do wonders for property values.
Original G,
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Crime statistics for these areas in southeast Concord are irrelevant. This is mandated by the State of California, not the City of Concord, and the State of California doesn’t care about crime, especially when it comes to increasing the housing supply, whether that be high-density, mid-density, low-density, or single family housing.
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This was mandated by the State of California. If the Concord City Council didn’t do this, then the State of California could come in and do it for the City of Concord, and it would likely be much worse.
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The City of Concord doesn’t need to increase the Concord Police Department budget to hire more peace officers, as they’ve been operating with a budget for more peace officers that they haven’t yet hired.
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Almost all, if not all, of these sites are also zoned for single family housing.
How will this make things affordable?
Oh, everything around there is about to get more affordable.
Ouch!
BINGO! It works every time.
WC—Creeker,
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It’ll make things more affordable if high-density housing is built because the City of Concord will mandate a certain percentage, likely 20%, of the units built be designated as “affordable housing,” unless an affordable housing non-profit developer comes in and makes the entire project “affordable housing.”
WC—Creeker,
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A secondary goal of the State of California is to lower average income levels in southeast Concord, as they currently deem them to be too high. The State of California wants no poor areas of a city, no middle-class areas of a city, and no wealthy areas of a city, they want all areas of a city to have the same average income, no poor and no wealthy, but every area equally the same.
Or all poor and ruled over by a Judge Dredd. Stallone’s version was fun but Karl Urban’s “Dredd” reflects the predictions of the original graphic novel authors. We may well be headed that way. I would take a miracle to save not only the Bay Area but the country (or the world) as a whole.
Well, not actually “equally the same” for everyone.
That’s why the Governor works 80% remotely …90 miles from his Sacramento office…
and now LIVES in his (rent-controlled-zone) MANSION in Marin Co. and has taxpayers
subsidize his home office and gardening expenses!
“Affirmatively Fair” … is not the same “Fair” for everyone.
No Excuses,
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I didn’t say, “equally the same for everyone.” I said, “every area equally the same.”
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At least Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted for 3-hours on his Gulfstream III most days, flying between Sacramento and Los Angeles.
Are they doing a EIR. Are they going to put in a new fire house. Have they figure would this will do to traffic on Clayton Rd and Treat bl. Are they hiring new police officer.
.. any EIR will always come back as as minimal impact to existing infrastructure and traffic patterns – have seen it for many years… any bets??
domo,
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You’ve got that right!
No new fire stations. Station 8 is just over a
mile away.
No new police. Defund the blue.
Hugs not guns
Snickerdad,
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The parcels granted this additional zoning are exempt from some of the requirements a normal project would have, thanks to the State of California.
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No, no new firehouse.
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The Concord Police Department already has a budget for more peace officers that they haven’t yet hired.
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The State of California doesn’t care what this does to traffic on Clayton Road, Treat Boulevard, or anywhere else. The State of California has declared a War on Cars, with the express purpose of increasing traffic and decreasing parking in order to make the population so miserable that they’ll give up their cars for walking, biking, and public transportation. It’s the State of California attempting to engage in behavior modification and social engineering.
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As an example, there are currently 884 housing units, consisting of 3 and 4 bedrooms, proposed for the former USN/USCG military housing property on East Olivera Road, which will add thousands of daily car trips to East Olivera Road, Olivera Road, Port Chicago Highway, and Esperanza Drive, all of which are roadways with one lane in each direction, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTION OF EXPANDING THESE ROADWAYS TO HANDLE THOUSANDS OF ADDITIONAL VEHICLE TRIPS EACH DAY. The difference is that this isn’t being mandated by the State of California, this is all the doing of the City of Concord and the Concord City Council.
Come on, sing along! Pack and stack, pack and stack, aint gonna get your city back…
TPC,
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The City of Concord has been gone for a long time, it’s just catching up to southeast Concord now!
I grew up here. I used to go with friends to collect lady bugs in the grassy fields by Clayton Road when it was one lane in each direction. I know how long this City has been changing and growing. There are pros and cons to every decision made, but ultimately, I will never get my city back.
Call me nostalgic, but my Dad used to take me and my sister to the A&W drive in for burgers and root beer and then to Miniature Golf next door.
Memories and bygone years aside, it still feels like things are becoming more profit oriented and less community based.
TPC,
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I have some of those same memories. The City of Concord never properly planned for its post-WW2 growth, now 80 years later the city keeps expanding without properly planning for future growth. The City of Concord and the Concord City Council haven’t yet learned from past mistakes.
The appropriate amount of silver has crossed the appropriate palms on the council.
To the devil with what the people want.
It’s what the council want$.
Abe,
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It’s what the state wants. If the city didn’t abide by the state mandates, then the state could come in and do the rezoning for the city, and would likely make it much worse.
Abe,
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You should put blame on our lying, cheating, corrupt, preacher, State Senator Tim Grayson and all of his Yes In My Back Yard (YIMBY) friends, allies, supporters, and donors!!!
Grayson is the lowest of the low when it comes to politicians.
I wouldn’t trust that scum bag with a dead fish.
That area couldn’t even handle one little Popeye’s establishment. Where is the fresh air supposed to be generated from now the moon shadows?
All 5 proposed sites should indeed be upgraded for aged infrastructure improvements. However, we, the residents do not need another Monument Blvd. corridor, an overrun Antioch Frontier Village, nor another Jewelry store with costume trinkets. BB