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<br />Housing Tools and Strategies Action Inventory 19 Recommended Actions <br />B. Reduce Cost and Time Burden <br />Action Explanation <br />Level of <br />Support <br />Impact <br />Does this action increase housing affordability, <br />availability, and/or diversity <br />was not reached about acceptable process and <br />incentives. <br />Cost- <br />17 <br />Create process to provide <br />placeholders for <br />infrastructure <br />connections at <br />developable sites. <br />For land designated as ‘buildable’ in the Buildable <br />Lands Inventory, the City should leave stubbed- <br />out infrastructure connections when building <br />new roads so that subsequent development can <br />access underground utilities without tearing out <br />the newly built road. <br />From BHT. Maybe – For some areas, stubbed-out infrastructure <br />could decrease costs for builders. <br />Cost- <br />18 <br />Review infrastructure <br />standards. <br />The City’s established standards for new <br />infrastructure are designed to meet regulatory <br />requirements, ensure improvements are <br />compatible and consistent with the systems they <br />integrate with, and meet City goals for health, <br />safety and service. There may be opportunities <br />for some standards to be changed to better define <br />when full improvements are required to benefit <br />long-term system goals and when a lesser <br />standard could be applied, given the context of <br />the improvement. (E.g., requiring <br />undergrounding of utilities to an infill lot that is <br />on a corridor with existing overhead utilities may <br />not be in alignment with the system level design <br />for undergrounding utilities on that corridor). <br />From staff review. Unknown – City review of some standards could lead <br />to changes that reduce infrastructure costs and still <br />meet the intention of the standard. <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-7 Help low and moderate- <br />income households <br />purchase a home, such as <br />navigators to support the <br />purchase process and <br />The City could allocate funding to assist with <br />down-payment assistance or to fund staffing to <br />serve as housing navigators. <br /> <br />HTS working <br />group strongly <br />supported this <br />option (86%) in <br />Yes – Such a program could have an impact, if <br />funding were available. <br />March 13, 2019, Work Session - Item 2