Town Council, Planning Commission hold joint study session on Housing Element
As cities across the Bay Area are working to plan for state-mandated affordable housing units, municipalities like Los Gatos are struggling to make the plan work while navigating high land costs, lack of financing and strict state land use laws.
While Los Gatos has until the end of the year to send in its plan for housing growth, called the Housing Element, the town has been working for years to identify areas for development. The town’s strategy for accomplishing the state-mandated housing growth is to focus on higher-density housing near commercial areas rather than building more single family homes. But high land costs, new state laws and a lack of funding make planning these developments a challenge.
The legal penalties for not meeting assigned housing unit goals were not as dramatic in previous cycles as they are now, Kautz said. New state laws can allow a developer to build on certain sites without any kind of public review under SB 35.
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