314 Jessie Street
314 Jessie Street is a City of Santa Cruz significant housing project described as follows:
“The Planning & Community Development Department received an application for a pre-application review of a fifty-unit 100% affordable multi-family development on a parcel located in the R-L/CZ-O (Multiple Residence-Low Density/Coastal Exclusion Zone A) zone districts at 314 Jessie Street. The project site is currently developed with a fourteen-unit multi-family development and one accessory building. The proposal includes demolition of the existing buildings and construction of forty studio and ten one-bedroom low-level affordable rental apartments ranging from 316 to 459 square feet in size. The development currently includes a five story design, with a community room, offices for resident services, parking, and property management on the bottom two stories and residential units on the top three stories.
The applicant is proposing to utilize two state bills to achieve the proposed development: AB 1763 and AB 2162. AB 1763 allows for up to an 80% density bonus for 100% affordable housing projects if the proposed units are restricted for lower income households. Furthermore, AB 1763 projects that are located within a half mile of a major transit stop are not subject to maximum density controls and are allowed a height increase of up to three stories or thirty-three feet. Under this bill, a developer receives four incentives or concessions pursuant to the Density Bonus Law and parking requirements are eliminated. AB 2162 streamlines affordable housing projects that include supportive housing units and onsite supportive services in that it allows for supportive housing projects of fifty units or fewer to be allowed by right in residential and mixed-use zoning districts, it prohibits local jurisdictions from imposing minimum parking requirements for units occupied by supportive housing residents if the development is located within ½ mile of a public transit stop, and it removes the need for environmental documentation through the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for all qualifying projects.
It is estimated that the formal application will require a Coastal Permit and administrative-level approval of a Design Permit.”
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