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M COUNTY SURPLUS LANDS The Board reviewed the following memo dated 1/4/94: TO: James,E. Chandler County Administrator DEP TME NT HEAD CONCURRENCE: Robert M. ea ng, AfCP Community Deve opm t Director FROM: Sasan Rohani, AICP 19,02• Chief, Long -Range Planning DATE: January 4, 1994 RE: County Surplus Lands It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of January 11, 1994. DESCRIPTIONS & CONDITIONS One requirement of the State Housing Initiatives Partnership -(SHIP) program, through which the county receives $250,000 per year in affordable housing funds, is that the county prepare and adopt a housing incentive plan. Among the items which must be addressed in that plan is the possibility of using county surplus property for affordable housing purposes. Surplus properties are those lots or parcels owned by the county, but no longer needed for county purposes. Typically, the properties were purchased by the county in order to provide sites for constructing county facilities such as parks, offices, or utility facilities. Some properties, however, were acquired by default, usually by foreclosures for non-payment of taxes. Even before the housing incentive plan requirement was established, the issue of surplus property was addressed in the county's comprehensive plan. Housing Element Policy 2.4 states: "The county shall inventory all surplus county -owned land and foreclosed properties that could be used for affordable housing and will coordinate the identification of such lands with municipalities, the School Board, the SJRWMD and other public land owners in the county. The county will cooperate with the State Department of Community Affairs in its annual inventory of state-owned land available for affordable housing development. The county shall make these lands.available for affordable housing development using a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, seeking proposals from the private sector. The county shall also provide direct land grants to private non- profit agencies. To ensure that these units will meet affordable housing needs, the RFP process shall require units produced average less than 85% of county median home price and 90%.of all units be less than median price. Where surplus county land is available but not appropriate for affordable housing, the county shall make that land available 43 L_ J A N 111994 BOOK 91 F,AGE 486