New codes for affordable housing reviewed May 6

Long Beach planners will deliver a package of zoning code amendments and ordinances for affordable housing to the Planning Commission on May 6 and to the City Council on May 18.

Both sessions begin at 5 p.m.

City staff also are not likely to have anything for public review until April 29, according to Susanne Browne, senior attorney at the Long Beach-based Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

Last year, Housing Long Beach and Legal Aid achieved numerous victories in the Housing Element (HE) campaign work to increase the supply of affordable housing and, in particular, increase the development of housing for extremely low-income households.

The city promised in its HE, which was completed and adopted last May, that it would bring forward a number of zoning code amendments and ordinances to implement commitments, Browne reported in a recent email..