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Support Affordable Housing in Palo Alto

For more than two years Palo Alto Housing, the non-profit agency that builds and manages housing for low-income residents in Palo Alto and the region, has been designing a housing project for low-income residents, including those with special needs on their site at El Camino and Wilton in Palo Alto.

To be feasible and eligible for tax-credit financing, the project will need an increase in the number of units allowed on the site and other cost-reducing measures. To this end the city staff, as part of our adopted Housing Work Plan has drafted an ordinance that gives the city council discretion, if deemed in the public interest, to remove barriers to the feasibility of this and future projects developed for low-income residents.

The staff ordinance was not approved at the last Planning and Transportation Commission meeting and will be heard again on March 14th.

Please join us by signing the letter below so that the ordinance can move forward to the City Council and Palo Alto Housing will be encouraged to bring this wonderful and needed project forward.

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To the Palo Alto Planning Commission, City Council and Planning Department staff,

1) We support the priority for housing for low-income residents in Palo Alto's Housing Element, Comprehensive Plan and Housing Work Plan.

2) We appreciate the interest of our non profit housing organization Palo Alto Housing in developing housing for low-income and special needs residents on the Wilton Court site.

3) We support the staff's affordable housing overlay ordinance to remove barriers and encourage financial feasibility of housing for low-income residents at Wilton Court and other sites.

4) We encourage the staff to explain to the community why their proposed ordinance is needed and how it affects the feasibility of achieving our goals for the development of more housing for low-income residents, many of whom have been on waiting lists for many years.

5) We encourage the staff to bring their recommended ordinance and reasoning forward to the City Council in addition to any changes proposed by the PTC

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