Housing Element
The Mountain View YIMBY Housing Element Working Group meets monthly during this process to identify sites and policies to enable those homes. This process is complicated, even for the most adept housing advocates. That’s why we’re committing to breaking down the content and making it more accessible for all. Join us at contact@mvyimby.com
Housing Element Upcoming Schedule
- Initial Site Inventory and Policies Study Sessions
- Environmental Planning Commission: Wednesday, February 16, 7-8pm
- City Council: Tuesday, March 8, 5-6pm
- Public Review Draft Housing Element Study Sessions
- HCD Review Period (Maximum 90 Days)
- Housing Element [Second Draft December 2022]
- HCD Submission
YIMBY’s Requests for the Housing Element
Programs
- Use data-driven approaches for designing city programs targeted at meeting our housing needs allocation such that their efficacy can be objectively measured.
- Commit to specific recommendations from the Development Review Study (Matrix)
- Addition of the Displacement Response Strategy
Production
- Drastically upzone within a half mile of our two Caltrain stations. No unit density limits.
- Upzone within a half mile of our highest opportunity schools.
- Policies to address production south of ECR
- Increase Base FAR and height limit (allowed without Council review) in Precise Plans
Constraints
- Streamline new home approval by eliminating discretionary reviews for housing.
- Address Constraints found during the R3 Update (refer to Opticos presentation)
