Resolution No. 05-06 CITY OF TIGARD, OREGON
RESOLUTION NO. 05-OL
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SUBMITTAL TO METRO OF THE CITY'S THIRD YEAR
TITLE 7,AFFORDABLE HOUSING, COMPLIANCE REPORT.
WHEREAS, in 2001, Metro adopted Title 7, "Housing and Affordable Housing," as an amendment to the
Urban Growth Management Functional Plan; and
WHEREAS, this title requires Metro-area jurisdictions to adopt comprehensive plan amendments aimed at
encouraging the provision of affordable housing and to consider a variety of techniques to meet regional
and local affordable housing needs; and
WHEREAS, Title 7 also requires affected jurisdictions to submit to Metro three annual progress reports;
and
WHEREAS, the third-year report requires local government to report amendments to their comprehensive
plans, the outcomes of affordable housing tools implemented, and affordable housing developed and
expected; and
WHEREAS,this report is untended to serve as a complete and accurate statement of the City's progress in
implementing Title 7;
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED by the Tigard City Council that:
SECTION 1: The City of Tigard City Council does hereby find and declare that the report entitled
"Title 7 Third Year Functional Plan Compliance Report," attached as "Exhibit A," is a
detailed and factual statement of how the City is addressing Metro's Third Year Title 7
requirements.
SECTION 2: This resolution is effective immediately upon passage.
PASSED: This day of 005.
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Mayor- ity of Tigard
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EXHIBIT "A"
City of Tigard
Third Year Title 7 Functional Plan Compliance Report
This report is intended to fulfill the requirements of the Third Report of Title 7,
Affordable Housing, of the Urban Growth Functional Plan. These requirements
include providing information on outcomes and pubic responses to the
jurisdiction's Title 7 compliance efforts, as well as on any outstanding issues
identified in prior Metro assessments of earlier progress reports.
With regard to outstanding issues identified in the previous Metro Title 7
compliance reports, the City sent a letter to the Council President's attention,
dated January 27th, 2004, that comments on Metro's evaluation of Tigard's
Second Year progress report. Within the letter, the City questions two of the
three ordinance amendments listed as Outstanding Items for the jurisdiction.
The two items were (1.) consideration of density bonus and transfer of
development rights and (2.) consideration of replacement housing and
inclusionary housing in urban renewal areas. Since the City has not received a
reply to this letter as yet, a copy is included here as part of Tigard's Third Year
report (Attachment#1). Further, the City has no Urban Renewal Areas at this
time.
In response to the Metro-identified outstanding item related to affordable housing
maintenance and dispersion, the City has adopted Comprehensive Plan
amendments and implementing ordinances designed to address each of the two
issues included in this item. Complete copies of the adopting ordinance and text
amendments are attached (Attachments#2 and #3). The Tigard Planning
Commission and City Council conducted public hearings on the amendments on
July 19, 2004 and August 24, 2004, respectively (Attachments #4 and #5). The
amendments are intended to further facilitate the provision of affordable housing
within the community and to provide additional evidence of Title 7 compliance.
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The amendments promote affordable housing dispersal by:
• explicitly recognizing the state statue requiring local jurisdictions to allow
manufactured homes in all residential zoning districts;
• requiring the City to maintain its long standing intergovernmental
agreement with the Washington County Housing Authority that, among
other provisions; emphasizes the placement of new Authority-owned
affordable housing at dispersed sites within the community; and
• requiring the City to establish a fee subsidy program for affordable
housing development that includes guidelines giving preferential treatment
to projects that facilitate the dispersal of affordable housing within the City.
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(A copy of the revised guidelines themselves is included as attachment
#6).
The amendments promote the maintenance of existing housing stock in two
ways: by requiring the City to develop a Residential Property Maintenance Code
and assign a Housing Inspector to administer it and by requiring the City to
encourage residents to utilize the various low interest loan and grant home repair
programs offered by the Washington County Office of Community Development
through its Housing Rehabilitation Program. Some of the means that have been
and will continue to be used to publicize and encourage use of the program
include informational fliers and City webpage, newsletter, and cable program
announcements and contact information.
As for the "outcomes" of the tools and strategies adopted by the City to promote
affordable housing, in the three years since Title 7 took effect, Washington
County Housing Services has added 192 apartment units within Tigard and the
non-profit affordable housing provider Community Partners for Affordable
Housing (CPAH) has added 26 new units.
Of these 218 additional units, Tigard has provided various forms of assistance
(see below) to two multi-family projects that together account for 124 of the new
units. However, it would be a stretch to claim a direct link between these local
incentives and off-site capital improvements, on the one hand, and the "initiation
or completion" of the two apartment projects involved, on the other. Simply
stated, this is because the City's direct contributions to the financing and
operation of the two projects were comparatively small relative to the projects'
development costs of$1.2 and $5 million dollars each.
Washington Square Estates (28 units)
25% reduction in required parking spaces
SDC fee reimbursement, $8,000
Tax abatement, $20,700 (FY 03/04)
Sidewalk in-fill between Highway 99 and apartment complex, $102,000
Bonita Villa (96 units)
Permit fee reimbursement, $90,000
Development of park serving Bonita Villa and two nearby low-rent
apartments, $250,000
Installation of pedestrian crossing with flashing lights, $56,000
Worked with TriMet to facilitate new service on Bonita Road
In both cases, these projects would have been built without the City assistance.
At the same time, according to the two housing providers, the City's assistance
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did enable the providers to target rent levels slightly lower than otherwise would
have been feasible. In the case of the Washington County Housing Authority
project, the saving was spread over various rent levels. Three of the units are
targeted at households earning 50% of median income. The remaining units are
targeted to the 60% group. In the case of the new CPAH-owned units, the City's
pre-construction assistance enabled the nonprofit to provide two additional 30%
units. The on-going tax rebate enables CPAH to reduce rents across the board
on a dollar for dollar basis.
During the various meetings and hearings dealing with the subject of affordable
housing held since 2001, the primary individuals or organization representatives
who have participated in these meeting and hearing were CPAH and Washington
County Housing Services staff. CPAH is based in Tigard and has been the City's
partner in the provision of affordable housing in the community. Although a
formal partnership agreement does not exist between the City and CPAH, since
CPAH's establishment in the mid-1990s, the City has been active in its support of
the organization in the accomplishment of its mission. The primary forms of
support have included tax abatement on CPAH's portfolio of properties in Tigard,
reduced parking requirements on new affordable housing developments, a
reimbursement fund for development fees on affordable housing, several years
of rent-free office space, the construction of off-site capital improvements (storm
drainage, sidewalks, streets) serving CPAH-owned projects, and CPAH z
participation in the City's Enhanced Safety Program designed to reduce crime
and improve the safety of rental properties. In recent years, CPAH also has
made informational presentations to City Council and participated with City staff
in a cable broadcast focusing on affordable housing needs in Tigard.
Attachments
1. Letter dated January 27, 2004 from James N,P. Hendryx, Director of
Community Development, to David Bragdon, Council President
2. Tigard Ordinance No. 04-09, Amending Chapter 6, Housing, Volume [I of
the Tigard Comprehensive Plan
3. Tigard Comprehensive Plan: Findings, Policies & Implementation
Strategies, Volume II
4. City of Tigard Planning Commission Minutes, July 19, 2004
5. City of Tigard Council Minutes, August 24, 2004
6. City of Tigard Affordable Housing Set-Aside Guidelines
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