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Clarifying the proposed BSA role in affordable housing approvals
1:14:18
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Commissioners Carl Weisbrod and another unknown commissioner ask Howard Slatkin for clarification on the Citizens Housing and Planning Council's proposal regarding the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA).
Slatkin confirms the proposal is for the BSA to grant project-specific zoning waivers instead of ULURP for certain affordable housing projects (e.g., HDFC-owned with regulatory agreements).
This mechanism would be targeted to geographies identified as having insufficient affordable housing production, based on metrics like the city's fair housing framework.
Carl Weisbrod
1:14:18
then It's just like in the proposal to allow the BSA to, for certain kinds of projects to, in effect, modify the zoning for that project.
1:14:32
How would that would that be after the EULA process?
1:14:35
Would that be instead of the EULA process?
1:14:38
How would that work?
1:15:05
Thank you.
Howard Slatkin
1:14:39
Right.
1:14:39
The idea is it would be instead of the EULA process and strictly for a category of affordable housing projects, essentially, projects that are are going to be subject to a regulatory agreement owned by an HDFC, and can be targeted toward geographies where there has been an insufficient number of affordable housing units provided in order to to counterbalance that.
1:15:11
The threshold and this is building on things like the fair housing framework that the city council has has laid out.
1:15:17
The idea is that there are clearly geographies that fall below a threshold, but you can you can that threshold can be set.
1:15:24
But there are clearly geographies that fall below that threshold in which there has been insufficient production of affordable housing, and this sort of streamlined process would be available in those places.
UNKNOWN
1:15:06
That's the trigger then?
1:15:08
You allow that?
1:15:09
Sure.