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AFFORDABLE HOUSINCj ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS DETAILED DISCUSSION 1. Establish an objective for 1,500 new affordable housing units in the County by 2025 and a total of 4,000 new affordable housing units in the County by 2030. Per the AHAC, the County and its municipal representatives determined that they could work together on that objective through advocating for full funding of the State's Affordable Housing Trust Fund, including the State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL) Program and the County's State Housing Initiative Partnership (SHIP) Program, advocating for allocation of other state and federal affordable housing incentives to projects in the County (such as Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC)), and from implementation of various AHAC recommendations that include ordinance revisions and development review process improvements, support of public-private partnerships, and implementation of educational programs for obtaining and maintaining housing. 2. Revise the expedited permitting process to identify and correct specific points where affordable housing projects and permit reviews get slowed down. In this case, staff has already reviewed the issue and has made internal changes to help to resolve. This included developing a new bright colored form specific for affordable housing and sharing and coordinating with various reviewers from multiple departments. A liaison was also established and it was requested that the departments and affordable housing developers reach out to the liaison so that the liaison could help facilitate reviews and approvals and address any slow -downs in the review process. 3 & 4. Revise the County's small lot subdivision regulations to allow even smaller lots to provide for "shotgun" style homes and (4.) revise county planned development regulations and plat over -site -plan regulations to restrict the ability of developers to build market rate housing on small lots intended for affordable housing. These recommendations will require evaluation of and revision to several sections of the County's Land Development Regulations and will require a feasibility analysis and coordination with various departments (at least in the case of reducing lot sizes to less than the already small 50 -foot -wide lots). Lots of less than 50 feet wide are not unheard of and have been developed in other communities in the state. Those communities and their regulations could also be evaluated and government staff interviewed to identify challenges that may be associated with the smaller lots to determine if they are a good option for Indian River County. S. Prepare information sheets and packets that review the local feasibility of developing tiny and modular homes. The informational packets would be intended to explain what can and cannot be done in Indian River County based on existing codes. The information could also help to facilitate development of these affordable home options by providing resources and steps involved. As proposed, this recommendation would involve some initial up -front staff time to develop and then very limited staff time thereafter other than for permit review that already takes place for more traditionally built single family homes. 6. Modify the County's existing accessory dwelling regulations to allow larger units. Currently, the County's accessory dwelling regulations allow for accessory housing units in agricultural, single-family, and multi -family zoning districts throughout the County. Staff has found that the accessory dwelling regulations have rarely been utilized by homeowners. Feedback on this issue has in part been attributed to the fact that accessory dwellings are limited in size to no more than 33% of the heated/cooled gross floor area of the primary Attachment 2