Q&A
Q&A on Universal Affordability Preference incentives and housing diversity
3:10:46
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152 sec
Council Member Rivera inquires about incentives for Universal Affordability Preference (UAP) participation and how the City of Yes plan addresses housing diversity for families. Chair Garodnick explains the zoning and tax incentives for UAP and discusses how the proposal aims to create more housing options for both families and single individuals.
- Garodnick emphasizes that UAP participation is driven by both zoning and tax incentives
- The proposal aims to allow for more flexible building envelopes to encourage family-sized units
- Changes to zoning rules are proposed to permit a wider range of unit sizes, addressing the needs of both families and single individuals
Carlina Rivera
3:10:46
So what has DCP considered to fur at HPD for that matter considered to further incentivize anticipation in UAP to help ensure that more affordable housing is developed.
3:10:56
In what ways does the city of yes, plan address the issue of housing diversity to accommodate the needs of families?
3:11:03
And because as you mentioned, the lack of suitable housing is a driver for growing families to leave our city.
3:11:09
And I just have a question after that about micro units and parking minimums.
Daniel Garodnick
3:11:13
Sure.
3:11:13
Thank you very much, Ricardo, and thank you for the nice words.
3:11:18
Really simply on UAP, the thing which most drives participation in UAP is the zoning incentive plus the tax incentive.
3:11:28
Those two things work directly together.
3:11:33
You might have gotten the development with the tax incentive only, but you get more affordable and permanently affordable as it relates to UAP and the bonus that it provides.
3:11:45
As it relates to creating housing for families, This is an important part of this proposal and something that we are really interested in.
3:11:56
And we know that when applications come through the council and through the commission, there's always a demand for family size units.
3:12:03
The reason that we have introduced the possibility of allowing smaller units in this proposal in ways that are so strictly prescribed by zoning and, you know, and and forbidden in many cases is because those single people who are occupying family size units are creating a disproportionate pressure on our family size units.
3:12:26
We want to take that pressure off.
3:12:28
We need more family size units.
3:12:29
We need more single size units.
3:12:30
We need more of everything.
3:12:31
Yeah.
3:12:32
So we did not want zoning to any longer overprescribe the absolute maximum number of small units that you can include because that was doing harm on large unit opportunities.
3:12:43
Also on design.
3:12:45
We are proposing to change design rules for lot coverage that will allow for more flexible building envelopes and typologies that will get us more family sized units and also more light and air and buildings We did it in the 19 twenties, thirties, and forties.
3:13:03
We just stopped being able to do it in the 19 sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond.
3:13:07
We need to re legalize those sorts of buildings that have more flexibilities, courtyards, and windows, and more rooms, and with those flexible designs, more family sized units.
Carlina Rivera
3:13:18
Well, one just to counter that, and I'd love to hear from Commissioner Kaoyang as well.
