Vacaville City Council decides housing issues
Vacaville leaders quietly greenlit two housing developments Tuesday, but behind the routine vote lies a decision that will shape how the city pays for essential services for years to come.
With no public opposition, the City Council moved to annex the Vandengate and Vanden Cove development into two long-standing community financing districts, setting the stage for new homes and new streams of funding for fire, police, and public services.
Mayor John Carli opened the public hearings on the matter by asking for any protests, which received no response. Vacaville Finance Director Ken Matsumiya provided the presentation.
The Vandengate community is conditioned to join CFD 11, which was formed in 2006 to provide a funding mechanism for the cost of fire and public services within the district. Vandengate is bordered by Joyce Drive to the north and Vanden Road to the west in Southeast Vacaville.
Vandengate will mark the eighth annexation into the district and bring 42 single-family detached homes. The development will generate roughly $92,000 at full buildout.
A resolution setting the date for this hearing was passed in February. The second reading of this item will be held at the April 28 council meeting.
The council then began the second public hearing, which saw Vanden Cove annexed into CFD 12, which it was conditioned into. CFD 12 was also formed in 2006 to fund police, fire, and other public services.
"It is referred to as the infill district," Matsumiya said of CFD 12.
The total project will include 114 single-family detached homes, but the portion annexed into the district at the meeting, phase one, includes only 30 units. At full buildout, the project will generate about $172,946 annually, but will generate only $45,512 annually under phase one.
Councilmember Jeanette Wylie asked why one of these projects was considered infill and the other was not when they are adjacent to one another.
Matsumiya said Vanden Cove came to the city later and was thus assigned to CFD 12. The city has approached the developer about amending the development agreement for Vandengate to categorize both as infill, but the developer declined to streamline the process.
The council announced the results of two landowner elections as part of the process. Wylie asked if the property owners for both annexations were the same. Matsumiya said that they were, and that votes are allocated per acre.
"So one owner is the one who passed both of these?" Wylie asked.
"Correct," Matsumiya confirmed.
The Council also approved the Vacaville Housing Authority Housing Choice Voucher Annual Public Housing Agency Plan and Moving-to-Work supplemental plan.
Celina Aguilar-Vasquez provided the presentation. The Federal Housing and Urban Development Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP) provides vouchers through the Vacaville Housing Authority. 1,392 vouchers are provided by the city to families, elderly people and disabled people to find housing on the private market, injecting $20.9 million in rental subsidies into the local market annually.
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