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Report regarding a request by the South San Francisco Housing Authority to partially waive Building and Fire Permit fees for their C Street Housing Complex Electrification Project. (Nell Selander, Director of Economic & Community Development)
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council consider the South San Francisco Housing Authority’s request to partially waive Building and Fire Permit fees for their C Street Housing Complex Electrification Project. Staff has prepared the associated Resolution implementing the fee waiver for City Council consideration.
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BACKGROUND
The South San Francisco Housing Authority (“Housing Authority”) owns and operates 80 public-housing units on an 8.3-acre parcel on C Street in South San Francisco (known as “the C Street Housing Complex” or “the Complex”). The Complex includes 38 duplexes and triplexes adjacent to the Housing Authority’s office, which is located at 350 C Street.
Due to the age of the buildings, with some dating back to the 1940s, the Housing Authority is pursuing an electrification project (“the Project”) to modernize the Complex with fully electric utilities and appliances to improve resident safety and sustainability. In 2024, the Housing Authority was awarded a $3,030,240 Housing-Related Hazard Capital Fund grant by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the Project to address carbon monoxide. Removing gas appliances and replacing them with electric is an eligible expense.
Since the grant was awarded, the Housing Authority has designed the Project but has not bid out the work. As such, they do not have firm understanding of the cost of the electrification of all 80 units and offices at the Complex. Currently, their project manager estimates construction costs at $35,000 per unit or $2,835,000 total if the office is included, with the remainder of the grant award paying for project management and other soft costs.
The Housing Authority is r...
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