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AFFORDABLE HOUSING WORKSHOP The Board reviewed memo from Community Development Director Bob Keating dated February 23, 1994: TO: James Chandler County Administrator FROM: Robert M. Keating, AICP 4MK Community Development Director DATE: February 23,. 1994 SUBJECT: AFFORDABLE HOUSING WORKSHOP It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of March 1, 1994. DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: At a recent meeting, the Board of County commissioners decided to have a workshop on affordable housing issues. The purpose of the workshop is to consider at one time affordable housing issues which have come before the Board incrementally, as well as to review the County's draft Housing Incentive Plan in a workshop type setting. Several factors have combined to warrant the Board's consideration of affordable housing issues at this time. These include the County's adopted comprehensive plan and its implementation; the. County's current Local Housing Assistance Program; and the County's draft Housing Incentive Plan. • Comprehensive Plan As required by Chapter 163.31611F.S., the Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act of 1985, the County's comprehensive plan had to include a housing element. Consistent with this requirement, a housing analysis was undertaken, and a housing element was prepared. When the County's comprehensive plan was adopted in February, 1990, the housing component was one of the thirteen elements making up the plan. Besides a needs assessment, the housing element includes a set of goals, objectives, and policies. Among these policies are provisions for establishing an affordable housing advisory committee, creating a housing trust fund, and providing county surplus property for affordable housing development. A copy of the housing element goals, objectives, and policies is attached to this staff report. Once the comprehensive plan was adopted, the County was required to implement the plan. Among its various housing element implementation activities, the County formed the original Affordable Housing Advisory committee. That committee focussed on the housing trust fund and other housing element policies. •Local Housing Assistance Program As the County's Affordable Housing Advisory Committee was addressing implementation of the comprehensive plan's housing policies, the 1992 Legislature passed the Sadowski Affordable 23 MAR ® 11994 BOOK 91 WAGE 87®