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Comment: Please explain the motivation for removing from the Council's authority the <br /> examination and ratification by Resolution the extension of sewer extensions within the Urban <br /> Growth Areas. Please submit this proposal to County Council for ratification before placing it <br /> in the Draft General Plan. <br /> Comment: Please show a mapping of any changes in Urban Growth Areas on the present <br /> Draft General Plan 2045 Land Use Maps from the previous 2005 Land Use Maps <br /> HOUSING <br /> P. 146. With an estimated population increase from 202,000 to approximately 273,000 in 2045, <br /> a 35% increase, there will be a demand for an additional 17,000 resident housing units over the <br /> next 25 years. <br /> Comment: Please describe the County's views of the upsides and the downsides of an <br /> increase of 70,000 residents in the next 20 years. Is the only control opportunity of this number <br /> the availability of suitable housing? <br /> P. 24. About 90% of growth is through immigration. <br /> Comment: The Office of Housing has regulations which favor current residents in opportunity <br /> for purchase of `affordable housing stock' or rental of units which have been constructed or <br /> developed using `affordable housing guidelines'. With 15,000 of the needed 17,000 housing <br /> units likely to be resided in by immigrants, and with lack of affordable housing being recorded <br /> as a pervasive cause of out-migration of current residents, please include the following <br /> proposal in the Draft General Plan in the section `Housing'. <br /> " Any application for Building Division permitting pertaining to a project which <br /> qualifies as "Affordable Housing" according to Office of Housing criteria will be <br /> prioritized to be considered and examined by the Building Division ahead of any pending <br /> permit applications which would not have designation or fulfill Office of Housing criteria <br /> as "affordable housing". <br /> P.146. 44% of the population will be over the age of 65 by 2045. <br /> Q: Does the Planning Department evaluate this for desirability? Again, would this not be an <br /> important reason for supporting the limitation of influx of immigrants through available <br /> mechanisms such as the proposal above. <br /> P. 149 Remove barriers to reduce cost for new construction and rehabilitation of the current <br /> housing through changes to tax, zoning and building standard requirements. <br /> Comment: 1) Please give examples of how changes in taxation will reduce the cost of new <br /> construction and rehabilitation. 2) Give examples of how changes to zoning will reduce the <br /> cost on new construction and rehabilitation. 3) Give examples of how relaxation of building <br /> standards will reduce cost of new construction and rehabilitation. <br /> Comment: It is stated above that 90% of growth till 2045 will be through immigration. Does it <br /> make sense to reduce taxation, which will benefit the general public, in order to accommodate <br /> immigration. Much of the cost of immigrant ownership of housing will be distributed among <br /> the current resident population (though some of the cost will be in purchase of offshore <br />