CONSOLIDATED PLAN & STRATEGY 5-YEAR ... - City of Lakeland

3. If the public housing agency is designated as "troubled" by HUD or otherwise is
performing poorly, the jurisdiction shall describe the manner in which it will
provide financial or other assistance in improving its operations to remove such
designation. (NAHA Sec. 105 (g))
3-5 Year Strategic Plan Public Housing Strategy response:
The Lakeland Housing Authority is not designated as “troubled”.
Barriers to Affordable Housing (91.210 (e) and 91.215 (f))
1. Explain whether the cost of housing or the incentives to develop, maintain, or
improve affordable housing are affected by public policies, particularly those of
the local jurisdiction. Such policies include tax policy affecting land and other
property, land use controls, zoning ordinances, building codes, fees and charges,
growth limits, and policies that affect the return on residential investment.
2. Describe the strategy to remove or ameliorate negative effects of public policies
that serve as barriers to affordable housing, except that, if a State requires a unit
of general local government to submit a regulatory barrier assessment that is
substantially equivalent to the information required under this part, as
determined by HUD, the unit of general local government may submit that
assessment to HUD and it shall be considered to have complied with this
requirement.
3-5 Year Strategic Plan Barriers to Affordable Housing response:
The effect of City public policies on the cost of affordable housing may include tax
policy affecting land and other property, land use controls, zoning ordinances,
building codes, impact fees, growth limits, and policies that affect the return on
residential investment. The City has a review process in place for all City actions
that may adversely impact the development of affordable housing. The following
programs have been established to support affordable housing within the city limits.
Impact Fees
To encourage development in different parts of the City, Lakeland maintains various
impact fee incentives that vary depending upon location, residential or commercial
and affordable housing. The City has five separate impact fees for services:
wastewater facilities, water system, fire protection facilities, law enforcement
facilities, and parks and recreation facilities. There are four County impact fees that
are levied in the City. These include emergency medical services, correctional
facilities, education and transportation.
Impact fees are adopted by the City Commission based upon recommendations from
new or updated Impact Fee Studies, which are conducted approximately every three
years. With the adoption of an indexing provision for Fire Protection, Law
Enforcement, and Parks and Recreation impact fees, the amounts of those fees may
be changed on October 1 of each year if the changes are approved by the City
Commission by July 1.
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