To plan in an appropriate way for density setbacks, all of that.

And it was a response to community requests.

As a tool, it's become dangerously unstable to use.

And that is since uh July nineteenth.

I'm speaking specifically about Assembly Bill, which uh became uh signed by the governor, I believe, in July.

An uncertified housing element could cost the city a six hundred thousand dollar fine per month, retroactive to the date that the housing element became uncertified.

If we don't do anything and allow the housing element to stand as it has been amended in twenty fifteen, the butcher's bill approaches fifty million dollars in a lump sum payment.

And that development pushes forward all sorts of city um uh agendas relating to the homeless quality of life and affordability in the city.

So I would um I I would seriously consider this overlay, or something that that does the same job.

So thank you for your thank you for your attention.

Next speaker.

I'm Jenny Braithwaite, a resident of Huntington Beach and a volunteer with the SHIP shelter, as well as a member of the homeless united of Huntington Beach group.

Honorable members of the Huntington Beach Planning Commission.

We are at a rendezvous with destiny.

And hopefully, and hopefully positive ones for our city.

It doesn't seem to be projecting, but we're good.

All right.

So let's say we decide not to recertify our housing element.

We're gonna go it until 2021 when we have the next cycle.

What do we lose?

Number one, we will lose yearly 500,000 approximately dollars in SB2 money, which could be used to operate homeless shelters.

Add that up, that's quite a bit of money over a decade.

Number two, currently we are losing access to real estate recording fees.

If you work in business or real estate, you add up all the real estate transactions that go on in the city.

We lose a good chunk of change because we're not allowed to keep those funds.

That's a punishment for not having a housing element in place.

Currently, we are not allowed to join the Orange County Housing Finance Trust.

That is a group of donations.

The first company to donate was the Walt Disney Company, $5 million.

There's a huge amount of money which cities can access, basically forming cooperation between the private sector and the government in order to serve the homeless.

We're not allowed to play the game because we don't have a housing element.

That may occur.

And there is a possibility of losing $600,000 per month all the way retroactive to 2015.

That is $50 million of fines that our city will incur because we don't have a housing element.

As a taxpayer, I pay a lot of state income tax.

I don't want my taxes to go and pay for other city shelters.

It's time we step up to the plate.

We can't enforce our anti-camping laws until we have a shelter for the homeless.

And please do it, whatever it is.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Ralph Bauer, longtime resident of Huntington Beach, and I'm sympathize with you because I used to do the job you're doing a long time ago, and it's hard to satisfy everybody.

I brought you a couple of pieces of paper handouts.

So one is an interesting article, which probably most of you read, uh grading housing by city in uh Orange County, and sadly enough, uh we got a flat F, which uh distresses me a bit.

Uh there are four cities, uh La Habra, Westminster, and Santa Anna got A's.

Uh and I'm not sure I know how to fix that, but maybe uh you could talk about it a bit and talk to the staff, talk to other cities and see how we might uh improve our rating.

Uh the second uh piece of paper I'll give you is uh some comments I made to the city council about homeless a while back, and it might uh give you a sort of a flavor of why housing is such important uh issue.

Uh I look upon your job as well, the job of the council is that to be trying to be responsive to every all citizens.

You'll find that most of the homeless here are uh actually citizens of Hunting Beach.

They've lived here for a long time, they just have fallen hard time.

So hopefully uh you'll do your best to address that issue and uh uh maybe we can uh change some of the low grades we've gotten on this housing thing to something a little bit better.

And thanks for your time.

Good luck.

Thank you.

Good evening, members of the planning commission.

I wasn't going to speak tonight, but I could not resist the temptation since I was once a planning commissioner, and actually it was one of my favorite roles, uh, even though I was on the city council and the state coastal commission.

I loved being on the planning commission because at least you have rules that you can follow.

So I think it was a wonderful experience, and I thank you for having that same experience and being such a part of the city of Huntington Beach.

I want to make this brief, but I want you to know that I hope when you take your final vote on the issues before you at this study session, you will remember the importance of your vote.

As a planning commissioner, you understand the importance of having a certified housing element as a part of the general plan.

Your work depends on this, and now you have the opportunity to see that this is re-established by your actions.