California Coalition for Rural Housing

California Coalition for Rural Housing

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

California Inclusionary Housing Policy Database

 

Cloverdale, Sonoma County

download the full policy: Cloverdale.pdf (0.58 MB pdf)

Policy and Jurisdiction Information

Population: 6,831
Land Area (sq mi.): 2.5
Year Adopted: 2003
Compliance Type: mandatory
Policy Type: ordinance
   

Developer Options

Construction Alternatives

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

In-Lieu Fee Structure: fixed per-unit fee


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
  • (offered)flexible design standards
  • (not offered)growth control extension
  • (not offered)subsidies
  • (not offered)tax abatement
  • (not offered)(other)

Requirements

  Rental Units Ownership Units
IH Requirement Threshold 5 units 5 units
% Production Required variable formula; 15% variable formula; 15%
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 life of project/unit life of project/unit

Production Data

Inclusionary Development Units Produced, 1999-2006:25
In-Lieu Fee Units Produced, 1999-2006:0
Total Inclusionary Units Produced, 1999-2006:25

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

Other Notes

In-lieu fee and land dedication options are allowed for developments of 15 or fewer units.

last updated August 30, 2007