CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: January 10, 2024
Agenda Date: February 27, 2024
Prepared By: Charlene Neuterman, Community Services Director
Through: Stockton Whitten, City Manager
Requested Action:
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Conduct a Public Hearing to review the affordable housing real property inventory list and approve a Resolution identifying certain real property within the City to which the City holds fee simple title that is appropriate for permanent affordable housing.
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BACKGROUND:
Florida Statutes, Section 166.0451, provides that by October 1, 2023, and every 3 years thereafter, each municipality shall prepare an inventory list of all real property within its jurisdiction to which the municipality holds fee simple title that is appropriate for use as affordable housing. The inventory list must include the address and legal description of each such property and specify whether the property is vacant or improved. The governing body of the municipality must review the inventory list at a public hearing and may revise it at the conclusion of the public hearing. Following the public hearing, the governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution that includes an inventory list of such property that is appropriate for permanent affordable housing.
In the future, the properties identified as appropriate for use as permanent affordable housing on the inventory list adopted by the City may be offered for sale and the proceeds may be used to purchase land for the development of affordable housing or to increase the local government fund earmarked for affordable housing, or may be sold with a restriction that requires the development of the property as permanent affordable housing, or may be donated to a nonprofit housing organization for the construction of permanent affordable housing. Alternatively, the City may otherwise make the property available for use for the production and preservation of permanent affordable housing. Approval of the invent...
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