QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: Housing

1. What is the percentage of rental housing in the City now? What is the need of rental housing?
There are an estimated 30,586 households in the City of Santa Fe. Of these, 41% are renters.

Source: RRC Associates/Santa Fe Housing Needs Assessment
Demand for rental housing will be included in the full needs assessment report.

2. How many units are allowed in different zoning categories?
The R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5 and R-6 residential districts are intended to be residential areas with low population densities. Densities range from one dwelling unit per acre up to six, depending on the zoning category. R-7, R-8 and R-9 Residential District is designed to make available a variety of dwelling types including, but not limited to, single-family or multi-family dwellings, attached or detached, arranged as conventional subdivisions, zero lot line, clustered, or compound developments. Densities generally range from seven to nine dwelling units per acre;

3. What projects are currently being developed?
Some of the larger residential developments and/or annexations currently underway in Santa Fe include Tierra Contenta, Cielo Azul, Beatty Annexation, Colores and Rancho Santos at San Isidro

4. Will commercial development be allowed at this site?
Commercial development could be done on this site; however, there are concerns about the financial feasibility of commercial development at this site as well as the type(s) of commercial uses that would be appropriate for a site of this size and location. In other words, this is one of the issues to be evaluated through the homework group and economic analysis.

5. What information will be provided from the Housing Needs Assessment?
See sample Table of Contents for topics.

6. Examples of artist community?
The following example was taken from the http://artspaceusa.org web-page.

Revitalizing an historic corridor
The Gateway Arts District, a bold initiative designed to revitalize a two-mile stretch of the historic U.S. Route One corridor through an infusion of artists and arts facilities.

The first of the Gateway projects, Mount Rainier Artist Lofts, created 44 units of affordable housing for artists and their families in a new four-story building one block from the District of Columbia border. This $11.7 million project, the first Artspace live/work project involving new construction exclusively, also contains 7,000 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Public Process: Carl Moore - carl@thecommunitystore.com
Technical Info: Claudia Meyer Horn - nwquadrant@designworkshop.com