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a. Receive a presentation regarding farmworker housing development permit process outreach materials; and
b. Provide direction to staff.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Receive a presentation regarding farmworker housing development permit process outreach materials; and
b. Provide direction to staff.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The County's goal is to ensure safe, decent and affordable housing for farmworkers and to increase the number of units to meet the demand for the farmworker work force. To achieve this goal, the Board of Supervisors has directed that farmworker and affordable housing development projects be processed as a high priority. There have been some recent successes and staff continues to find avenues to increase awareness of housing development opportunities.
On March 1, 2021, the Board of Supervisors' Health, Housing, Homelessness and Human Services Committee requested the Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) and the Health Department-Environmental Health Bureau (EHB) staff highlight accomplishments, provide updated and new outreach materials and identify tools to help the public navigate the County's farmworker housing permit process. Staff has developed an informational brochure (Attachment A). The purpose of the informational brochure is to promote and provide permitting information for those who may want to develop farmworker housing in Monterey County.
HCD staff is also developing a web page to provide public information for the land use permit process for farmworker housing projects in unincorporated Monterey County. Further, EHB staff are coordinating with HCD staff to make updates to its webpage for employee housing and H2A housing permits, which includes farmworker housing projects. HCD's web page is currently under development and would incorporate a newly designed Housing Services web page. The Housing Services page would include a link to the newly created Farmworker Hou...
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