California Coalition for Rural Housing

Working to ensure affordable housing opportunities for low income and rural households since 1976.

California Inclusionary Housing Policy Database

 

Arcata, Humboldt County

download the full policy: Arcata IH.pdf (0.46 MB pdf)

Policy and Jurisdiction Information

Population: 16,651
Land Area (sq mi.): 9.2
Year Adopted: not available
Compliance Type: mandatory
Policy Type: housing element
   

Developer Options

Construction Alternatives

  • (not offered)conversion to affordable housing
  • (not offered)credit transfer
  • (not offered)in-lieu fee
  • (not offered)land dedication
  • (offered)off-site construction

In-Lieu Fee Structure: no in-lieu fees

No in-lieu fees are mentioned in this document.

Incentives

  • (not offered)clustering of IH units
  • (not offered)delayed building of IH units
  • (offered)density bonus
  • (not offered)fast-track processing
  • (not offered)fee deferral
  • (not offered)fee reduction
  • (not offered)fee waiver
  • (not offered)flexible design standards
  • (not offered)growth control extension
  • (offered)subsidies
  • (not offered)tax abatement
  • (not offered)(other)

Requirements

  Rental Units Ownership Units
IH Requirement Threshold any project any project
% Production Required variable formula; 15 - 30% variable formula; 15 - 30%
Targeted Groups
  • (not offered)extremely low income
  • (offered)very low income
  • (offered)low income
  • (offered)moderate income
  • (not offered)above-moderate income
  • (not offered)senior
  • (not offered)extremely low income
  • (offered)very low income
  • (offered)low income
  • (offered)moderate income
  • (not offered)above-moderate income
  • (not offered)senior
Length of Affordability 55 years 45 years

Production Data

Production data not available for this jurisdiction.


Residential building permit activity 5 years before and after adoption of ordinance:

permit data not available

Other Notes

  • The city of Arcata also provides a density bonus for senior housing.
  • The policy we have indexed is the city of Arcata's Affordable Housing Plan, rather than a specific ordinance or their Housing Element.

 

last updated June 21, 2007