17.500.030 General provisions.
A. The Planning Director shall submit an annual report to the City Council at the end of each year to give the status on the level of service standards and guidelines for City services to include water, wastewater, parks, fire, police, drainage, schools, and traffic as set forth in the Sebastopol General Plan. If any of the standards or guidelines are determined to be exceeded, mitigation measures or actions necessary to bring compliance shall be included for City Council review and approval. If the City Council determines that it is not possible within the fiscal resources or regulatory authority of the City to meet the standards or guidelines, then additional allocations for the next calendar year shall be suspended for a period of 60 days to give the City Council time to adopt an urgency ordinance to restrict further dwelling allocation issuance, to remain in effect until the level of service(s) can be improved to meet the standards or guidelines contained in the General Plan.
B. Dwelling allocations shall be limited to 750 dwelling units through 2035, or the remaining wastewater treatment capacity for new residential dwellings as determined by the City Council under the existing contract for services with the City of Santa Rosa, whichever is less. Annual allocations shall be limited to 50 units.
C. Units in senior housing and single room occupancy projects, and units of less than 500 square feet shall count as one-half of a dwelling unit. Community care or health care facilities and homeless shelters shall be counted as zero dwelling units.
D. The following are exempt from the yearly dwelling allocation limitation in subsection B of this section:
1. Affordable housing units.
3. Replacement residential structures.
4. Single-family homes on an existing lot of record as of November 1994.
5. Homeless shelters, single room occupancy residences, and community care or health care facilities.
6. Residential units in the Central Core.
Nonreplacement affordable housing dwelling units, and nonreplacement new single-family homes on an existing lot of record as of November 1994 still shall be charged against the total number of allocations that can be issued.
E. No residential building permit for a new dwelling unit shall be issued by the Building Official unless the Planning Director has issued a dwelling allocation under the provisions of this chapter or determined that the proposed dwelling unit is exempt as provided in subsection D of this section.
F. A growth management program allocation availability table shall be updated on an annual basis, or as determined appropriate by the Planning Director or City Council.
G. In December of each year, the Planning Department shall prepare an annual report on the growth management program which shall include the following:
1. The number of new dwelling unit allocations issued during the prior year to nonexempt residential units.
2. The number of new residential building permits issued during the prior year to exempt residential units.
3. The total number of new dwelling units issued to date for exempt and nonexempt residential units.
4. The number of dwelling allocations reserved.
5. The number of removed dwelling units during the prior year.
6. The number of Category C units annexed into the City, and the number of Category D units subject to out-of-service-area agreements.
7. A listing of any significant problems which arose during the prior year in administering the growth management ordinance and program.
8. A listing of any staff recommendations, with regard to changes or revisions to the ordinance to improve its effectiveness and/or administration.
9. A recommendation, if any, together with factual supporting data, as to whether the level of service program or growth management program policies and programs of the General Plan or the growth management ordinance itself should be substantially revised or discontinued.
10. A discussion of the findings of the annual level of service report and any adjustment to the growth management ordinance and annual dwelling allocation limitation as a result of changes in levels of service. (Ord. 1111, 2018)