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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Workforce Housing Development, First District, as follows: (EST. TIME: 30 MIN.)
a) Receive a presentation and direct staff to publish a RFP, as revised by direction provided by the Board during the hearing, to solicit proposals from experienced development teams to partner with the County to plan, finance, design, construct, operate and maintain a new affordable housing development at 117 East Carrillo Street (APN 029-211-025) in the City of Santa Barbara;
b) Provide staff direction regarding the following for inclusion in the RFP:
i) Whether the County should voluntarily subject the Project to the County’s zero net policy regarding construction of public buildings; and
ii) Tenant income levels for this Project; and
c) Determine that the proposed actions do not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it consists of an organizational or administrative activity of government which will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY