At the October 14 City Council Meeting, the Council will receive an update on the status and next steps of Concord’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rezoning Project. The AFFH Rezoning Project involves the selection of properties in higher resource neighborhoods to be included in a new zoning overlay district that will make the properties eligible to be developed with multi-family housing.

The update will focus on changes in law and will not include a site selection discussion. One important change in law is that local rezoning actions that implement an approved Housing Element no longer require environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act. Because Concord’s AFFH zoning overlay project is a program within their certified Housing Element, the City does n

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