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Portland City Code ch. 14

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Portland City Code ch. 14
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Portland City Code ch. 14
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Portland (municipal)

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residential use, or any combination of these          4.   Workforce units must be integrated with
     elements, with the exception that projects                 the rest of the development, must use a
     using public financing requiring affordability             common entrance, and must provide no
     restrictions, as defined by tax increment                  indications from common areas that these
     financing, U.S. Department of Housing and                  units are workforce housing units.
     Urban Development funds such as HOME or               5.   Workforce units need not be the same size
     CDBG, other federal, state, or local housing               as other units in the development but the
     program, or the Low-income Housing Tax                     number of bedrooms in such units, either
     Credit program, shall be considered exempt.                on- or off-site, shall be no less than 10
C.   Standards. Development projects subject to                 percent of the total number of bedrooms
     this subsection shall be subject to the following          in the development. For the purposes of
     requirements:                                              calculating the number of bedrooms in a
     1.   Notwithstanding any language to the                   development, every 400 square feet in
          contrary in this Land Use Code, all                   each market rate unit will count as a
          developments of ten units or more are                 bedroom if the Planning Authority
          conditional uses subject to Planning Board            determines this method is appropriate in
          review on the condition that they comply              lieu of counting actual bedrooms.
          with the requirements of this subsection,        6.   As an alternative to providing workforce
          unless they are within the India Street               housing units, projects may pay a fee-in-
          Form-Based Code Zone, in which case the               lieu of some or all of the units. In-lieu fees
          review will be conducted administratively             shall be paid into the Housing Trust Fund.
          or by the Planning Board in accordance                The fee for affordable units not provided
          with the thresholds of site plan review for           shall be $150,000 per unit, adjusted
          the district.                                         annually in the same way as the fee under
     2.   At least 25% of the units in the project shall        Subsection 18.1.8.
          meet the definition of workforce housing         7.   Workforce housing units for sale, if
          unit for sale or for rent as defined in               converted to workforce housing units for
          Article 3. The project shall have the option          rent, shall become subject to the income
          of paying a partial fee-in-lieu as per (6)            limits and other requirements of such units.
          below or providing an additional unit on-        8.   If at least 33% of the units in a
          site for any fractional value.                        development are workforce units, the
     3.   Projects shall not be segmented or phased             development is eligible for subsidy through
          to avoid compliance with these provisions.            an Affordable Housing TIF, subject to City
          In cases where projects are completed in              Council approval.
          phases, affordable units shall be provided       9.   The term of affordability for the required
          in proportion to the development of                   25% workforce units provided shall be
          market rate units unless otherwise                    defined as shown in Table 18-B.
          permitted through regulations. 18-6 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE HOUSING