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Resolution affirming the City's support for BRIDGE Housing Corporation's application to the Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Grant program and authorizing the City Manager to execute an AHSC Implementation and Cooperation Agreement with BRIDGE Housing Corporation and an AHSC Scope of Work for an Anti-Displacement Strategy.
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WHEREAS, the 158 affordable units being developed by BRIDGE Housing Corporation (BRIDGE) as part of the PUC Project are known for the Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities (AHSC) grant application as 1051 Mission Affordable; and
WHEREAS, key to assembling the funds to build this much-needed affordable housing is securing two major State of California Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) grants: the Infill Infrastructure Grant (IIG) and AHSC; and
WHEREAS, the project was awarded $28.8 million in IIG funds in February 2023, and BRIDGE, in cooperation with the City, has assembled a highly competitive AHSC application; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified sustainable transportation infrastructure improvements for which to request AHSC funding as part of BRIDGE's application; and
WHEREAS, those identified improvements include 1.8 lane miles of Class IV bike lane along Westborough Boulevard between Camaritas Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard, 0.40 lane miles of Class IV bike lane along Junipero Serra Boulevard between Westborough Boulevard and Arroyo Drive, Transit Signal Priority upgrade on Mission Road between Evergreen and Chestnut Avenue, and installation of five bus shelters along Mission & Holly on the North and South Side, Mission & Evergreen North, and Alida Way at Rotary Plaza on the East and West Side; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified the SSF Shuttle as its transportation partner and developed a scope of improvements to the SSF Shuttle program to expand available shuttle routes, purchase new zero emission vehicle shuttles, upgrade electrical charging infrastructure and fund two y...
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