Affordable housing will impact school districts
One of many issues raised by residents—especially those with current and future school-age children—concerning the construction of low-cost, multi-family housing units is the impact on enrollment at local campuses.
The City Council, as required by a state-imposed mandate, has identified 14 sites totaling nearly 54 acres for possible low-cost housing, which, if fully developed, would add 1,027 affordable units to the city’s housing stock.
Eleven of the sites are listed in two measures on the June 5 primary ballot for voters to say “yes” or “no” on zoning increases to 10, 20 and 30 units per acre. If both pass, the allowed housing units would total 950, should developers build to the maximums.
Three of the sites, eyed for 77 units on nearly eight acres, are not on the ballot, since their potential densities don’t require a public vote under a 2006 voter-approved city ordinance
Of the 14 sites, 12 are on the city’s westside and are served by the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. If Measure I, which includes nine of the 12 sites, is approved, up to 847 westside units could be added to the areas feeding into PYLUSD campuses.
The two other sites, totaling six acres that could allow up to 180 units in Savi Ranch, are listed in a separate Measure H and are within Orange Unified School District boundaries.
A total of 404 students would be generated for the Placentia-Yorba Linda and Orange school districts, if the14 sites are developed to maximum capacity as identified by the council, according to a 64-page environmental report viewed by the council in October.
The breakdown: 28 elementary, 5 middle and 8 high school students to the Orange district from the two Savi Ranch sites and 164 elementary, 94 middle and 106 high school students to the Placentia-Yorba Linda district from the 12 westside properties.
“Various schools serving the 14 sites for multifamily residential uses are currently operating over capacity. Consequently, the addition of any student to these schools or districts would result in significant impacts to schools,” the report stated.
However, the payment of school impact fees by developers to districts will “fully mitigate the impact…on local schools from multifamily residential development,” noted the report, compiled by a team of city-hired consultants.
The fees, which include charges on all new residential and commercial development that impacts school enrollments, will be going up next month, based on the unanimous action taken by Placentia-Yorba Linda’s five elected trustees at a March 27 meeting.
Right now, the fees paid by developers for new construction are $2.97 per square foot of assessable space for residential development and 47 cents per square foot of “chargeable” space for commercial and industrial development.
The new fees, per square foot of assessable or chargeable space: $3.05 single-family, $3.20 multifamily, 51 cents senior housing, 35.5 cents retail services, 51 cents offices, 48.3 cents research and development, 42.6 cents industrial/warehouse/manufacturing, 44.3 cents hospital and 1.8 cents hotel/motel.
The City Council, as required by a state-imposed mandate, has identified 14 sites totaling nearly 54 acres for possible low-cost housing, which, if fully developed, would add 1,027 affordable units to the city’s housing stock.
Eleven of the sites are listed in two measures on the June 5 primary ballot for voters to say “yes” or “no” on zoning increases to 10, 20 and 30 units per acre. If both pass, the allowed housing units would total 950, should developers build to the maximums.
Three of the sites, eyed for 77 units on nearly eight acres, are not on the ballot, since their potential densities don’t require a public vote under a 2006 voter-approved city ordinance
Of the 14 sites, 12 are on the city’s westside and are served by the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. If Measure I, which includes nine of the 12 sites, is approved, up to 847 westside units could be added to the areas feeding into PYLUSD campuses.
The two other sites, totaling six acres that could allow up to 180 units in Savi Ranch, are listed in a separate Measure H and are within Orange Unified School District boundaries.
A total of 404 students would be generated for the Placentia-Yorba Linda and Orange school districts, if the14 sites are developed to maximum capacity as identified by the council, according to a 64-page environmental report viewed by the council in October.
The breakdown: 28 elementary, 5 middle and 8 high school students to the Orange district from the two Savi Ranch sites and 164 elementary, 94 middle and 106 high school students to the Placentia-Yorba Linda district from the 12 westside properties.
“Various schools serving the 14 sites for multifamily residential uses are currently operating over capacity. Consequently, the addition of any student to these schools or districts would result in significant impacts to schools,” the report stated.
However, the payment of school impact fees by developers to districts will “fully mitigate the impact…on local schools from multifamily residential development,” noted the report, compiled by a team of city-hired consultants.
The fees, which include charges on all new residential and commercial development that impacts school enrollments, will be going up next month, based on the unanimous action taken by Placentia-Yorba Linda’s five elected trustees at a March 27 meeting.
Right now, the fees paid by developers for new construction are $2.97 per square foot of assessable space for residential development and 47 cents per square foot of “chargeable” space for commercial and industrial development.
The new fees, per square foot of assessable or chargeable space: $3.05 single-family, $3.20 multifamily, 51 cents senior housing, 35.5 cents retail services, 51 cents offices, 48.3 cents research and development, 42.6 cents industrial/warehouse/manufacturing, 44.3 cents hospital and 1.8 cents hotel/motel.
posted by Jim Drummond at 12:00 PM
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