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Member
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Position
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Bakari Burns
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Member who actively serves on the local planning agency.
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Barbara Friends
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An advocate for low-income persons.
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Gregory Anderson
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A citizen who is actively engaged in the residential home
building industry in connection with affordable housing.
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Gregory Jackson
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A citizen who is actively engaged as an advocate for low-
income persons in connection with affordable housing.
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Enid Peterson
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An advocate for low-income persons.
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Imar DaCunha
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A citizen who represents employers within the jurisdiction.
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Joyce Odongo
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A citizen who is actively engaged in the banking or mortgage
banking industry in connection with affordable housing.
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Michael Kulich
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A citizen who resides within the jurisdiction.
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The Daily City found two things of note in the Triennial Report of Recommendations. Developers are essentially let off the hook thanks to these two statements:
1. The City of Orlando operates a voluntary density bonus program. The program offers a density bonus in several residential, office, and commercial districts. Those bonuses are listed below. Projects proposed to take advantage of this density bonus program must first receive Affordable Housing Certification.
1. The City of Orlando operates a voluntary density bonus program. The program offers a density bonus in several residential, office, and commercial districts. Those bonuses are listed below. Projects proposed to take advantage of this density bonus program must first receive Affordable Housing Certification.
In exchange for more density, the developer must commit to a contribution (a sum equal to 2.0% of the total construction costs of the development) to the “City of Orlando Trust Fund for Low and Very Low Income Housing.” The developer can also opt for what's called "On-Site Alternative." This means the developer must build affordable housing units on-site.
Developers have an easy out. They are not required to include low income housing in their buildings. As more and more housing developments are constructed, the low income housing recipients are less and less able to be around a higher income neighborhood. How does this benefit anyone but the developer?
2. The City generally supports development at transportation and employment nodes*** through the allowance of greater densities and heights in mixed-use and activity center zoning districts that surround these nodes. There is no special consideration for affordable housing development at these nodes.
It is possible that low income housing recipients would benefit from being adjacent to transportation nodes. To distance them from this City-provided service is a detriment to their daily lives.
***Transport node is a complex of devices in the area for the functioning and interaction of several types of backbones that serve transit, local, freight and passenger traffic and a set of transport processes. Thus, the concept of transport node includes the process of transportation (the movement of passengers and cargo), technical devices (stations, ports, highways, warehouses, etc.) as well as a means of control and management.
The Committee is a product of the William E. Sadowski Affordable Housing Act July 7, 1992 and later incorporated into Chapter 420 of the Florida Statutes. The Sadowski Act created a dedicated revenue source for local governments allocating a portion of documentary stamp taxes on deeds to local governments for the development and maintenance of affordable housing. In addition, the Sadowski Act created the State Housing Initiatives Partnership Act (the “SHIP Act”).
In order to receive funding for affordable housing through the SHIP Program, the City of Orlando submitted an Affordable Housing Incentive Plan (AHIP) on February 7, 1994. The AHIP outlined the recommendations of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC), and advisory board to City Council, regarding the adoption of incentives to encourage the production of affordable housing.