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Agenda Item - 2024-09-23 - Number 06.1.2 - Exh G-2 Email from Ganzini-L PC Public Testimony 09-23-2024 LU 24-0024 Siquina, Cristina From: Linda Ganzini <Iganzini@losn.org> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2024 12:59 PM To: PC Testimony Subject: testimony from LOSN regarding the Housing Production Strategy CAUTION:This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Testimony Housing Production Strategy, City of Lake Oswego Lake Oswego Sustainability Network (LOSN) To the LO Planning Commission September 23, 2024 The Lake Oswego Sustainability Network (LOSN) is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting sustainability in our community. We offer events and projects, and hundreds of local citizens are involved in our efforts. Sustainability involves the triple bottom line: social equity, prosperity, and environmental stewardship. We commend the Council for working on affordable housing and would like to support your efforts. We believe that providing housing that is affordable for middle- or lower-income citizens provides a number of positive outcomes for our city: • Lake Oswego workers and others need an affordable place to live • Lake Oswego will gain in vitality and diversity by providing affordable housing • The project will help local businesses by creating more customers for retail stores and restaurants. • We will join other local suburban cities and do our part to solve the low to middle- income housing shortage in Oregon. • We will meet our legal requirements to create additional housing. • Projects such as multi-family units use less energy and space per person and help reduce our per capita carbon footprint, and is therefore in line with our sustainability plan The LOSN policy committee and Board reviewed the goals and voted by consensus to support 10 of the goals. #2, #8, and #10 are already in place, and we declined to take a position on #7. 1. Code audit and amendments, we support 2. Already in place 3. Process to rezone land, we support 4. Evaluate accessible design incentives for senior housing, we support 5. Multiple unit property tax exemption, we support 6. Pre-approved plan sets for ADUs, we support 7. Modify system development charge (SDC) fee schedule-we take no position 8. Already in place 9. Low-income rental housing tax exemption, we support 10. Already in place 1 LU 24-0024 EXHIBIT G-2/PAGE 1 OF 2 11. Tax increment financing (TIF), we support 12. Affordable housing preservation inventory, we support 13. Fair housing policy and education, we support In addition, we had the following comments and considerations from the advocacy committee o We want to save as many trees as possible through creative design o With number 5, above, we want to make sure that affordable housing is the result o Even though state and federal law have fair housing provisions, we think it is important to include them in our local laws so local officials feel bound by these concepts o With number 12, above, we'd like to see a plan for the restoration of older housing as well as simply an inventory o We would like to see sustainability features in homes that are supported by public dollars. Long term, these features save money. Thank you for your consideration. Linda Ganzini Lake Oswego Sustainability Network 2 LU 24-0024 EXHIBIT G-2/PAGE 2 OF 2