Santa Barbara is moving forward with a plan to create more housing downtown, but it won’t include requiring below-market-rate units.
The City Council voted 5-2 on Tuesday to move forward with an adaptive reuse ordinance to relax requirements for developers to build housing. The proposed ordinance would exempt the city’s 10% inclusionary requirement.
City staff will incorporate Tuesday’s comments from the council members and return soon with the ordinance for a final vote…