Housing Element Update

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Housing Element Survey available now! We want to hear from you!

The City is conducting a survey to receive community feedback that will help to create policies and programs that appropriately address the housing needs of current and future Dublin residents. This is a key step in the community outreach process associated with updating Dublin's Housing Element. Take the survey.  The survey is available in English and Mandarin and is open through February 28, 2022.


Join the City at the Second Housing Element Update Workshop on February 17!

The City is also conducting two workshops to receive community feedback on the Housing Element Update to help create policies and programs that appropriately address the housing needs of current and future Dublin residents.  The second workshop will be held on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom.


Please click the link below to join the Workshop via computer audio:

https://dublinca.zoom.us/j/82382805239?pwd=c2taeG41WlhydEVGaEN4c1lKanNxZz09
Passcode: ES0vdg89

 
or join by phone:

(669) 900-9128 (San Jose)

Webinar ID: 823 8280 5239
Passcode: 05005976

The first housing Element Workshop was held on January 19, 2022. A recording of the workshop is available on the City's YouTube channel. 

Background


The State of California requires that the City Council adopt a comprehensive, long-term General Plan for the physical development of the City.  The Housing Element is one of seven mandated elements of the General Plan and must be updated every eight years to address existing and projected housing needs for all economic segments of the City.  Housing need is determined through the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process as further described below.

The City's current Housing Element was adopted by the City Council on November 18, 2014, and was certified by the State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) on January 21, 2015.  The current Housing Element covers the planning period of 2014-2022.  

The City is currently in the process of updating its General Plan Housing Element for the 2023-2031 planning period.  To comply with State Law, the City's Housing Element must be updated to ensure that Dublin's policies and programs can accommodate estimated housing growth needs, also known as RHNA.


Regional Housing Needs Allocation


The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) determines the Regional Housing Needs Determination (RHND) for the nine-county Bay Area.  The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is tasked with creating a methodology for distributing the RHND across the Bay Area jurisdictions.  The RHND for the Bay Area is 441,176 units.  

Distribution of the RHND results in each jurisdiction's RHNA, which is the total number of housing units by income category (i.e., very-low, low, moderate, and above-moderate income), that the jurisdiction must plan for in the next Housing Element.  

On December 16, 2021, the ABAG Executive Board adopted the Final Regional Housing Needs Allocation Plan: San Francisco Bay Area, 2023-2031, which is the final step in ABAG's RHNA process that began in October 2019. The plan allocates 3,719 units of housing to the City of Dublin.  The table below shows the final distribution of housing units to Dublin by household income category. 

FINAL RHNA 
Very
Low
Income
 Low
Income		 Moderate
Income		 Above
Moderate
Income 		 Total
Units
 1,085  625  560 1,449 3,719

Each local government in the Bay Area, including the City of Dublin, must now update the Housing Element of its General Plan to demonstrate how it can accommodate its RHNA. The Housing Element Updates must be adopted by the City Council and submitted to HCD for certification by January 31, 2023.  

Next Steps


Following are the City's next steps of the Housing Element Update: 

   Next Steps  Date
 1 Community Outreach (Survey and workshops)   December 2021-February 2022
 2 City Council Review Draft Housing Element  and Submit to HCD for Review   May - June 2022
 3 Environmental Review   June - November 2022
 4 Revise Housing Element in Response to HCD's comments   August - November 2022
 5 Adopt Housing Element Update   November 2022-January 2023


Resources


Subscribe to email notifications for upcoming City meetings and workshops for the Housing Element Update.  

Please check back to this webpage periodically for updates on progress on updating the City's Housing Element, and ways to get involved.  

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