Community Development Board - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everybody. Good morning. You guys did an amazing job this morning. Flew through it so efficiently.

It's like we go these long periods of this.

Thank you. Thank you. Already down there. Today's meeting of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee is called to order on this day, August 11th, 2026. Welcome everyone.

Agendas of today's meeting are at the entrance to the meeting room. Please remember to turn off your cell phones. To ensure a complete record of the committee's actions, we ask that each individual wishing to speak clearly state your name and spell your last name for the clerk. We ask that you limit your comments to three minutes. This committee is appointed by city council annually. Most of us served on this committee last year, but we do have a couple new faces. This committee is tasked with some very important work. Because of the professional work each of the committee members do, we are all very aware of the issue of housing affordability. Plain and simple, we need more housing that is affordable to our citizens, and unfortunately, there are a lot of reasons why capable developers choose not to build it. The job of this committee is to identify strategies that reduce barriers to development of affordable housing, and strategies that incentivize development of affordable housing. I will ask each of the committee members to introduce themselves and the industry they represent, and I will start all the way to my left, Mr. Menino.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Clearwater City Council Member Mike Menino. Pleasure to be here. Thank you.

Chrissy Bond, representing low income and the homeless.

Frank Cornier, labor involved in the development of affordable housing.

Cherisa Doty, affordable housing.

Kelly Batsford, homeless advocacy.

Sherry DeBlair from St. Petersburg College representing essential services personnel.

Todd St. John Fulton, real estate affordable housing.

And I am the board chair, Robin Feal, and I represent residential lending as it relates to affordable housing. The only item on today's agenda is to participate in a discussion led by Mr. Baird, from Wade Trim. We have a lot to discuss. Mr. Baird would you like to get us started?

Yes, thank you, Robin. Thank you, board members. So today, and I will bring the PowerPoint, or she will do it. Today we will be going over the 2026 update to the local health and incentive strategy document. And there's some familiar faces on here that have served in the past and some new faces that will give you a little deep dive into what we're going to be doing. Again, my name is Connor Baird. I'm with Wake Trim, the city contracted employees to update the 2026 LHIS. So to begin, will provide some background of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee and what you guys will be doing. So the history, it started in 2007 with House Bill 1375. At that point, it was not annually. In 2020, it went annually. We had to update the LHIS every year from 2021 to 2025. We've been updating that every year. And today, we are at the 10th AHAC, which is all of you guys, and we'll be updating the 2025. LHIS with new 2026 incentives that you all decide on. So the duties of the AHAC are to review the previous LHIS report and local government policies, that's ordinances, regulations, comprehensive plans, and then recommend to city council any actions or incentives to facilitate affordable housing within the city of Clearwater. So our meeting requirements, this is one of our meetings. We are to facilitate meetings and public hearings for the adoption of the LHIS. All meetings are public meetings, all records are public records, and then the staff and administration and contracted employees are here to help facilitate and move that process forward. So our LHIS update schedule for this specific update, we've already designated the staff, that's an AHAC, that's you guys. So we're gonna begin updating LHIS report. That'll go into around October and then eventually that will move that forward to adoption and then submittal to the FHFC, excuse me. So our meeting schedule, all meetings start at 9 a.m. Today is our first meeting, August 11th. Our meeting number two will be on September 8th. Number three will be on October 13th. And then finally meeting number four will be on November 17th. And so for some definitions of affordable housing as it relates to Clearwater, and I'll just go ahead and read these out, and then the next slide will provide some more information. But monthly rents or monthly mortgage payments, including taxes and insurance, do not exceed 30% of median annual gross income for the household. Any residential dwelling unit, lease, or owned by a household with a household income of 120% or less of the adjusted area median family income for Pinellas County, as defined by HUD. For rental units, shall not exceed rate for annual maximum rent by number of bedroom unit published. Sorry, that's a typo. I apologize for that. But that's for the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area. And then finally for non-rental units, the sales price may not exceed 90% of the average area price for the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater NSA. And then to provide some more information from HUD, Pinellas County, the median family income is $104,700. 120% of that would be $125,640. And then the cost burden threshold, where 30% of your income is going to housing costs annually, that would be $37,700, and then monthly around $3,100. And then to provide an overview of the entire program, players in this game. We have the AHAC, which coordinates with city council and city staff to provide incentives to the suppliers, which are developers and affordable housing offers. And then that is to provide to the clients. And of course the commodity is affordable housing. So the values, principles, and visions of the previous LHIS, the 2025 LHIS, we have, those are some of our components, and then finally we have the incentive strategies. We have the incentive strategies that are defined by Florida statute, and then we have additional incentives that previous AHECs have come up with. And these are the previous values and I'll just read these again and in the future and future meetings, we'll have the opportunity to work on these and adjust them how you see fit. But, um, a is to support a dynamic and competitive economy, be improved social wellbeing and build sense of community. C aspires to have housing that fits the city's residents and D everyone deserves a safe, affordable home. And then our principles are number one, affordable over the longterm. Number two, diverse supply that provides for a mix of income levels and the diverse needs of residents. Three, designed to be sustainable, energy and cost efficient and to minimize physical barriers to accessibility. Four, an aesthetic character with the surrounding neighborhood. Five, strategically located and pedestrian oriented with access to mass transit, open spaces, educational institutions and employment or workforce training opportunities. And finally, number six, incentivize to promote incorporation of affordable housing into all housing developments. And then finally, the vision is the city of Clearwater will incentivize the development of a diverse supply of housing that is safe, accessible, affordable, sustainable, and energy and cost efficient that blends into the aesthetic character of all the city's neighborhoods, proximate to public amenities and employment opportunities, which supports an inclusive community and the diverse needs of residents. And again, like I said, we'll have the opportunity to edit those and change those how we see fit in the future meetings. So part one is our inventory of the incentive strategies. And again, we have our barriers to affordable housing. That can be a number of things, not just things listed here. We have cost of production, public perception, financing codes and regulations, and then many, many others. And then your job will be to look at incentives to combat those barriers. So our incentive areas, we have 11 that are mandated by Florida statute, and you can read those there, the expedited review process, modification of fees, flexible densities, infrastructure capacity, accessory dwelling units, parking reductions, flexible lot configurations, modifications of street requirements, pre-adoption policy consideration, inventory of public lands, and then finally, proximity to transportation, employment, and mixed-use development. And then we have five additional AHAC-initiated strategies that are adaptive reuse, land development code, communication and marketing of affordable housing, financing and partnerships. And then for the final part of our inventory section, what you guys will be tasked to do will be to look at the procedures, the policies, and the regulations of the city of Clearwater, and then to use those to update the incentives that we have. And in conjunction with that, I'm going to invite Dylan up, who will be followed by Rebecca with the planning department, and they'll speak a little bit about those regulations.

Dylan May, I'm the housing manager. So this year, I want to go over what we're actually utilizing our SHIP funds for. There's some major categories. The first one is down payment assistance. Our down payment assistance program is a $75,000 loan program. It'll help income eligible households overcome some of the larger barriers to homeownership, which really is the down payment and the closing costs. Our second is our Housing Rehabilitation Program. That's where we assist existing homeowners with deferred maintenance, necessary repairs to address health and safety concerns, and then also code-related issues. And a good example of this would be we can provide a 0% interest loan for roofs, windows. It could be plumbing issues. It could be a broken door. And actually, after the hurricanes, we actually transitioned that program into an emergency relief program for smaller emergency repairs as well. We also have a dedicated ADA rehabilitation program. This provides accessibility improvements to eligible homeowners. This can include ramps, accessible bathrooms, opening up doorways for wheelchair access, those kinds of things. These are grants, and they're approved up to $15,000. SHIP also supports home buyer education that helps prospective homeowners better understand the home buying process. And these courses are required for our down payment assistance program. We do partner with local nonprofits to administer those programs. And then finally, we utilize SHIP to support the development of affordable housing. It's one of the larger categories for the funding. So this can be utilized for single family home development or for multifamily. For single family homes, we will provide a 0% interest deferred construction loan that will be paid back at the sale of the property. And a lot of time, A lot of the time for multifamily or when we're utilizing federal dollars, we'll be required to match either with local funds or some other funding source. And so we utilize SHIP dollars to match federal dollars in order to get larger projects done. So a good example of that would be Indigo Apartments, where we utilize approximately 60% CDBG and 40% SHIP for a total of $1 million in subsidy. And that was in the form of a deferred 0% interest loan. One of the objectives that we started to talk about this year is to institute a process for the reduction of code liens. I've been working with Rebecca on formulating a program where essentially if a homeowner or if a property is identified by a developer has code liens on it, then a stipulated agreement could be formed to address those liens, assuming they're going to utilize our programs to rectify the property. So we're still working through that process, but we are in conversation with our legal department, and eventually that will go to their code board for evaluation. So again, to kind of go over, I went over this. This is a little bit different than previous years, but I wanted you all to know upfront, this is what we're utilizing the SHIP dollars for. And I think that'll give you a better perspective going forward as you evaluate the rest of the incentives. And with that, I'll introduce Rebecca. She's here to talk about what Planning and Development's doing.

Good morning. Good morning. So I'm Rebecca Mulder. I'm the Assistant Director for Planning and Development. It's my first time at this meeting, so it's nice to meet you all. And as Dylan mentioned, I'm here to talk about some of the incentives and the ways that planning and development partners with economic development to support the development of affordable housing and clear water. So some of the ways we do that are through expedited reviews. So if an affordable housing project goes through, it'll get designated by Economic Development, they let us know, and then we expedite that process so that they can get through the review, address comments, and get the construction started as quickly as possible to get people into these homes. Another area that we offer is through our pre-approved plan submissions. So a developer could get a a general plan, sort of like a master plan, submitted to and approved that they could use over and over again and then they would just have to get the site work approved case by case for that part so they wouldn't have to go through the review process each time if they're utilizing the same design in multiple locations. currently no one has ever utilized that option but it is out there as an option that could be taken advantage of and then we could have pre we offer pre-application meetings to coordinate new construction either for large mixed-use affordable housing projects or if there's a community or a string of properties or parcels that want to be developed for affordable housing we can do pre-application meetings along with that um another area that um we've done we did a code a minute amendment in 2024 that allowed for accessory dwelling units so now within the city of clearwater it was june june of 2024 we allow accessory dwelling units to be within the city limits with certain caveats and parameters around those to offer longevity of utilizing their space so people can age in place, multi-generational living can continue, and they can afford to share the cost of their mortgage or rent, things like that. You can't use it for short-term rental is one of the caveats. You have to be a primary, it has to be your primary residence, so you have to live in the in the primary residence and have the adu or vice versa whichever if you want to have you want to move out to the adu and have your family live in the main house but you have to be a primary resident in that some additional making sure that there's parking for to accommodate that so we don't end up with any congestion things of that nature but that's also an opportunity that's been put in place recently and we've had a handful of people go through that process and it's a newer ordinance so it's one that we as we look at how people are navigating through that and we get feedback if there's complexity or Areas of opportunity for us to tweak the ordinance to make it more desirable or attainable for residents and developers, then we're amenable to that and we can always look into that more. Another area that we partner with economic development is through our density bonus. I'm not sure, in a general sense, a density bonus is just gonna allow for the more affordable housing units in a mixed-use development like an apartment building, the more affordable housing units you have, the greater density bonus up to 25%. So if you have 25% of your units you get a 50 density bonus and there's math that goes into that if you went above 25 there's a cap of a maximum so if you were 25 or more or a fully affordable your density would cap out at the 20 percent best to my knowledge on what i could find in the history of utilizing density bonus we haven't had anyone take advantage of utilizing in that way developers either go full affordable or full market rate development so um they still affordable units development still gets that 20 density bonus but seems to be the developers pick all in one way or the other but that is an allowable option within our within our program so those are some of the ways that planning is continuing to try to collaborate with economic development support the the further and more options out there between existing properties to establish additional units as well as to help promote larger projects. And we are working with Economic Development on the stipulated agreement so we can get those through the process. So if there are parcels that are encumbered by large liens due to violations that have been a blight and now are looking to be developed, if they're willing to take an affordable housing route with those, then we can work with them on a stipulated agreement so that if they take that route within a certain amount of time, it should alleviate the violations, and therefore we'll do 100% removal potentially of those violations to help with those costs, whereas normally it would be a different path for that. So unless you guys have any questions on any of that, that's kind of some of the gist of in a nutshell of how planning is working. How many ADUs are currently in Clearwater? ADUs? We have say handful, give or take, we we've had several applications come through, I would say probably five or six that have come through since it's been, um, implemented in 2024. Now it is, I would still, even though 2024 was a couple of years ago, I would consider this in its infancy of a, uh, an ordinance and people are still figuring it out. People are still realizing that are finding out as an option. and looking at that when deciding how to develop the parcel and what what they want to do if they want to move out they want to add space so that's why i said we're it's it will probably evolve as people work through it but we are looking at it and after a certain amount of time through the system and certain amount of applications we always like to review our ordinance to make sure they're still meeting the expectations and the goals that we were looking for

Thank you, Madam Chair. Rebecca, similar question regarding ADUs. In speaking to a lot of residents, you identified complexity with it. And I think what we're seeing is The complexity is a lack of understanding in the community and understanding this option as a tool to fill this gap. Can you just speak briefly to what we're doing as a city or staff to educate our residents on this being a viable path? Because that seems to be the big challenge, not the interest, but the lack of understanding.

Well, from a planning side, when someone comes in, if they have questions on it, we sit down, we go through what the applicability is, what their lot can accommodate, their size restrictions associated with an ADU. You can't have an accessory unit that's the same size as the house. So there's a limitation of 750 square feet or less as an accessory unit set back. So we kind of take the time. is inquiring, we take the time to try to explain that. And then we work closely, so if anyone from economic development should get calls or interest, we try to collaborate with them. I'm not sure if Dylan has anything beyond that. THEN JUST WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO TRY TO EXPAND THOSE. WE GO TO VARIOUS ASSOCIATION MEETINGS, PLANNING DOES, CODE COMPLIANCE, DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS REGULARLY AND IF THERE'S ANY REQUESTS OR INTEREST ON IT. BUT WE CAN EXPLORE TRYING TO promote or educate that that option is out there further. That is something we can look into doing.

Thank you. I think what I'm kind of seeing in the last year is there's a couple consulting businesses that have established themselves. They see this gap in understanding and a need in the community and they started almost a concierge ADU service where they're coming into families, helping educate them, and almost holding their hands and white-gloving them through the entire process, which I thought was extremely interesting. But there's a couple in our community that actually do that work. They're very interesting, but to help educate in that gap that's needed.

Yeah, and we don't limit, it doesn't have to be built on site. You know, ADUs can be prefab. There's lots, you know, we don't limit it that way. So there's lots of opportunities to explore ways to an affordable means to create an ADU if the lot permits it. Thank you.

I have a question. So you talked about encumbered dwellings, right? And that we have these resources to help them kind of resolve that. How many do we have? Do we have, like, because I'm imagining after the hurricanes we have people that just couldn't make the repairs to the house and violations, and so we have these resources available to those, to that population to kind of help them pay for that. But do we have a large population of encumber dwellings or liens or, you know.

How many properties do we have with liens for code violations? Is that what you mean?

We are going to like that we reach out to.

I mean, so we've got these resources. Well, anyone that has a lien on their property for a code violation or for work without a permit, those are the various ways some of the means from planning side that we would issue a lien and we send out notices in collaboration with the clerk's office twice a year I believe they send out notices to remind them that you have a lien and contact us and we can work with you. We do lien reductions through the code board to try to offer If you can get us into minimum compliance, then we can work with you on the outstanding loan amounts. A lot of times people come to us to work through their lien balances at time of refinance or sale or some sort of financial exchange that's about to take place. So we try to work with them ahead of time. We go through our lien list and are currently trying to establish is it still in violation. If a transaction takes place in cash, they don't worry about what's on the title, and it just makes an exchange. So we try to check, drive through the community and evaluate, is this an existing lien still in a violation? Because some liens can accrue daily. Some are flat fees, depending on whether we provided a service and there's a cost associated with that service to clean up a violation, or if it was... you have daily fines accruing because you didn't come into compliance for, say, unpermitted work or something like that. So you built a shed and didn't have a permit. We went through our process. You still decided not to. So then the lien contends to stack up. And so there's legislative limits on how much that we can collect, right? You can't go past the value of the home, things of that nature. So we reevaluate that regularly. And our intention is not to collect as a tool to collect funds, but as a means to prevent a continued violation from moving on to the next property owner and to work with them to get it, bring it to their attention, to light, to get into voluntary compliance. So we have, there are quite a few, though, and we try to work with them. annually or every couple years to try to reevaluate that list so that we can get those numbers down and look for opportunities.

Nice. Yeah, I just want to know, like, do they get, like, a letter? So they know the resources available that they can work with to try to resolve it, but it sounds like you guys do all of that.

Yeah, between planning work and what the clerk sends out, we try to make sure that we send something out when there's a violation. We post properties as well as sending notice to the address on the property appraiser. And a lot of times the neighbors will help us figure out where they are so that we collaboratively work to try to get those resolved, hopefully before any lien is necessary, because that's ultimately a last resort.

Nice. It's a great program.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

OK. Bring back up my presentation, and we'll go through the Live Local Act, which is going to be . And then we'll open it up for some discussion between the board members and talk about some stuff. So some updates to the Live Local Act. The Live Local Act, if you're not aware, allows cities to approve affordable housing projects, including mixed-use projects or land zone for commercial, industrial, or religious institutional if at least 10% of the units being proposed are affordable. It requires a city to allow multifamily and mixed use in any areas owned for commercial, industrial, or mixed use, including PUDs and excluding farms, which is new of this 2026 update, the excluding farms section, and property owned by a county, municipality, school district, or religious institution if 40% of acres are affordable for at least 30 years. For mixed use developments, at least 65% of the square footage must be residential. If less than 20% of the city's land is designated for commercial or industrial use, the city is required to approve a multifamily project as a multi-use project. What the city cannot do regarding the live local act is the city may not require a process such as rezoning or land use change variant or comprehensive plan amendment for density, height, or land use. It may not restrict the density below the highest allowed residential density anywhere in the city or below 150% of the highest allowed intensity. It may not restrict the height below the highest allowed height for a commercial or residential building within one mile of the project or three stories, whichever is higher. And it may not. Well, I guess recent amendment provides exempt exemptions for projects adjacent to a single family or projects in historic districts. And like I mentioned, part of the update was excluding farmland. The city must approve the project if it meets the city's LDRs for multifamily and area zoned for such use and is otherwise consistent with the comprehensive plan except for density and intensity, height, or land use. Reduce parking requirements if within a half mile of a major transit hub or 600 feet. of other available parking, and every three years, update of inventory of city-owned land appropriate for affordable housing and make publicly available, which the city does. Other incentives include options for tax, city tax exemptions, property tax incentives, and sales tax refund on building materials for affordable housing projects with some stipulations and regulations for that. So now we will have a little discussion, or I guess you guys will have a discussion, regarding some barriers that you guys have seen to affordable housing and some incentives. So that could be continuing barriers or incentives to the facilitation of affordable housing. It could be things that you've seen in the last year that have been very pressing that are maybe new. But I will open it up to you guys to discuss that, and then we'll go from there.

I mean, other than not having enough, right? Which is why we're here. One of the main barriers that I see with the guests that I work with are it's the cost. You know, even though it's affordable or it's called affordable, when you're ideally starting your life over and you're making minimum wage, it's not affordable. I primarily work with single women and children, and it's a one-income home. And I think it's like $1,600 a month. So we're still running into a lot of that.

I will say one barrier that we've encountered is developing on a corner lot in the MDR zoning district. For some reason that zoning district has a different requirement for front setbacks than do some of the other zoning districts. So specifically when you're developing on a corner lot in the MDR zoning district, you're required to go through a flexible design application process which can take two or three months. as an affordable housing developer, we may need to bring on a consultant for that process, even if it's just requesting the relaxation of a setback on one of the fronts for five or 10 feet. So that's kind of an onerous process that costs time and money, and if it could have the same application as the other zoning districts where it doesn't go through that process, then that speeds up the development of affordable housing and makes it quicker for us to put a family into that home.

Thank you. Go ahead.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, one of the challenges we've definitely seen in our community is that 9% tax credits from LIHTC. Within the last couple months, I've heard three or four very exciting affordable housing projects in the Clearwater community, but it seems each and every one of them are dependent on being awarded that 9% LIHTC tax credit. And while that's a little more than a lottery, as we find out, the negatives are the chances of winning that lottery are extremely low, but then we're tying up those properties that have that potential for affordable housing for sometimes three, four, and five years, hoping they get it. And meanwhile, there's two or three in our community that are competing against each other when the chances of even one getting it. So I'm just wondering if there's things we can do as a community to really identify those when they come in the door, if they are completely dependent on that LIHTC tax credit, is there a way to help them facilitate the process through other means, whether it's the Pinellas Housing Authority, whether it's state funds, or wherever it is, just so that we don't shoot ourselves in the foot, and that's definitely a challenge.

Thank you. I mean, the whole thing with affordability is just the cost, as you said, the cost for homeowners insurance taxes. And I know that's all been in the news a lot lately, especially with the proposed amendment that's on the ballot. But, you know, but you don't just have the taxes being so high. You have homeowners insurance has definitely... gone up a lot in the last few years. And that is keeping people from being able to buy homes or even rent because the homeowners, the landlords, their mortgage payment is so high that they need to charge higher rent because of the insurance.

Anyone else? For many of the people that I serve, about 60% are homeless, chronic senior citizens. And they use their Social Security monthly to go into a hotel until they run out of money and then they sleep outside. Because there is nothing affordable for what they bring in. And I can't employ an 80-year-old. And with the voucher program, it's very limited. We just got someone housed who'd been on the wait list for four years. So you have very limited housing that's subsidized for low-income, chronic seniors. And that number's increasing as rents go up.

Yeah, I think I'll just jump on the bandwagon of that one. You know, it used to be a couple years ago, I would talk about our students not having housing, right? Pasco's growing for us. Our campuses up north are growing. In Clearwater, we're kind of staying flat. It has to do with the schools and things like that. But now it's the staff, right, that can't find affordable housing. It's the admins that are making $19 an hour. And, you know... they have to move out, right? They just have to move away from the college. Right here down in Fairwater, and they gotta move to different cities because they just can't afford it, and the rent might say $1,600. But when they add in all the fees, it's our staff level. I mean, these are career folks. These are people that work for the college. They've worked for the college for a long time. Whether it's life crisis or divorce or whatever, they have to find housing. And they simply can't do it. Even if it's at $1,600, then it's all the fees and it's the utilities and it's electric going up out of the hurricanes. And so they just can't stay here. And so, like I said, it used to be the students I talk about, and they're always an issue, right? Being able to find affordable housing for students. But they're willing to live four-door room, right? But it's the large population of employees that now we're struggling to find housing for. And they just can't live near, they can't live in the city.

I'd like to see other housing options. We hear all the time about the missing middle. I don't think I've seen where there are duplexes and triplexes that are readily available on the MLS for somebody to purchase. So I would love to see maybe some incentivizing for building some of that, building some duplexes, some triplexes. We know the average family size has decreased in the last 20 years, while the average home has increased in size over the the last 20 years. What we have is a lot of single family homes that are bigger than people need them to be and then we have some towers with apartments and we don't have a whole lot in between. I have been part of a duplex program, a doubles program in the past where There was some municipal or government money put into subsidizing the development. Homeowner got home buyer education. Tenant got tenant education, as well as landlord training for the homeowner to incentivize them to purchase and keep a unit for rent affordable to a family member or maybe an admin of a college or something like that. So some other options in housing besides multifamily and single family. Something in between would be great to see in this community.

Yeah, in keeping with that, other incentives that people may have thought of or came to them in the night or something? No, we just want to talk about the barriers. Yeah, there's enough of them for sure, right? But yeah, that's a good one.

One last thing I don't want to leave with us on my brain is minimum lot sizes. So we are in a county that is the densest county in the state of Florida. We have a shortage of land. There are lots out there that are vacant. they got chopped up and now it's a small lot and it might not be a buildable lot based on the square footage. So maybe if there was a way that lots that don't meet the minimum lot size, if there was an overlay district or something like that where as long as they respected the setbacks, an ADU or a tiny home or something like that could be built on that that might help alleviate some of the issues we have around supply. So that's just a thought.

OK, well. I think that's a good start. And so I'll go ahead and say that, you know, to celebrate the first day of school in Pinellas County, we have homework for you guys. So keeping on with what you all just discussed, thinking of the barriers and incentives and any more that come to you, you're going to, what we would like you to do is to review the 2025 LHIS report, look through those incentives and those barriers and see what was proposed at the last update. and then evaluate each recommendation and then decide whether you want to continue it, modify it, remove it, dice it up, whatever you want to do with it, and then identify, like we just did a little breakout session, identify any new affordable housing incentives not covered in the 2025 report. That can be new incentives, that can be new recommendations to existing incentives, and all that. So that pretty much concludes our first meeting regarding any questions, unless you have any questions or anything like that. But our next meeting will be September 8th in Council of Changers, this building, at 9 a.m. And if you have any information, excuse me, not information, if you have any questions about information, you can contact Dylan, and he'll correspond with us if we need to. So thank you all, and don't forget to do your homework. Thank you.

Does anyone from the public wish to speak on this item? If so, please step to the podium and you will have three minutes to speak. Is there anyone here to speak on items not on today's agenda? If so, please step to the podium, state your name and spell your last name for the record. You will have three minutes to speak on a subject that is not on today's agenda. Seeing no one come forward, I'd like to ask Dylan Mayhew if he has anything additional to report to the committee.

Just a thank you for being here today and also be sending all of you an email with the link to our planning documents web page. And that will have the last year's LHIS as well as our LHAP.

Our next AHEC meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 at 9 a.m. here in the council chambers. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you.