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<br />Housing Tools and Strategies Action Inventory 6 In-progress Actions <br />B. Reduce Cost and Time Burden <br />Action Explanation Level of <br />Support <br />Impact <br />Does this action increase housing affordability, <br />availability, and/or diversity <br />any species of street tree, even trees not on the <br />approved tree list. <br />fee does not cover the quantity of time needed to <br />assess most applications. <br />Cost- <br />8 <br />Automatically ‘create an <br />account’ for a project <br />with EWEB when a <br />permit is initiated in the <br />City’s e-build system. <br />Builders must file permits and pay fees at both <br />the City’s permitting counter and EWEB’s <br />permitting counter. If the City and EWEB <br />coordinated fee collection, permitting, and <br />inspections, the 2 agencies could create a ‘one- <br />stop shop’ for all construction-based permits and <br />fees. <br /> <br />A substantial effort would be required to create <br />custom computer systems for the automation of <br />City and EWEB permitting processes. <br />From BHT. Yes – Builders must currently manage permit and fee <br />processes at 2 agencies, adding administrative cost. <br />Coordination between the City and Eugene could <br />slightly reduce costs. <br /> <br />C. Increase the Inventory of and Access to Affordable Units <br />Action Explanation <br />Level of <br />Support <br />Impact <br />Does this action increase housing affordability, <br />availability, and/or diversity <br />Aff-1 Identify new Revenue <br />sources for Affordable <br />housing units. <br />Existing federal resources have diminished have <br />many administrative requirements. This action <br />emerged from the HTS working group, and it has <br />multiple sub-options. <br />HTS working <br />group strongly <br />supported this <br />action (93%) with <br />no one opposing. <br />Yes – Additional resources could enable the <br />community to provide more units for very low <br />income households. <br />Aff-2 Charge a construction <br />excise tax (CET) to raise <br />resources for Affordable <br />housing developments. <br />A CET is a tax on new development. Oregon law <br />allows local governments to impose a CET on new <br />development projects to generate funding to <br />support Affordable housing projects. The CET can <br />be up to 1% of the construction value for <br />residential projects and there is no limit for <br />commercial and industrial projects. Funds can be <br />used to pay for incentives for builders to create <br />and preserve Affordable housing, rental <br />HTS working <br />group supported <br />this action (68%) <br />with 14% <br />opposing it. A <br />sliding scale had a <br />higher level of <br />support, at 75%. <br />Yes - A CET would generate revenue that could be <br />used to increase the supply of Affordable housing <br />units. However, the economic analysis conducted by <br />Strategic Economics to support the HTS process <br />found that a 1% CET will negatively impact the <br />financial feasibility of multi-family apartment and <br />cottage clusters. <br />March 13, 2019, Work Session - Item 2