GILROY
– The City Council has established a task force that will help
determine how different types of housing play out in the city’s
future development.
GILROY – The City Council has established a task force that will help determine how different types of housing play out in the city’s future development.
Council chose former Mayor Roberta Hughan, Tim Filice, Skip Spiering, Jeff Martin, Bonnie Green and Bill Reimal to the Neighborhood District Task Force Tuesday.
The group is an advisory body that will help iron out specifics on a new mixed-use residential zoning concept called a “neighborhood district” that was laid out when the city’s overall land-use blueprint, the General Plan, was recently retooled.
The new type of zoning will apply mainly to new growth such as the city’s massive Glen Loma Ranch development and areas in the south and north-central areas of town. It’s meant to incorporate a variety of housing elements – from single-family homes to higher-density rental housing that city officials said is often problematic to plan for.
Developers will be expected to provide a certain mix of low, medium and high-density housing in their projects – but are expected to have more flexibility and creativity in how they do that over the city’s older system.
The group will review and confirm targets for different housing types and how the policy interacts with the growth-control law and affordable housing goals.
Also included in the group are Mayor Tom Springer, Councilman Craig Gartman and Planning Commissioners Thomas Boe and Russ Valiquette. Councilman Bob Dillon will serve as an alternate for the Council seats.
South County Housing Executive Director Dennis Lalor will also serve as an affordable housing advocate.
Applicants who were not chosen included Conrad Lather and Rick Mello.
