2025-04 - Housing Needs Assessment; Surface Creek Valley Partners

Surface Creek Valley officials are seeking a consultant to develop a Housing Needs Assessment and Housing Action Plans to support compliance with SB24-174. It is expected that the Housing Needs Assessment incorporates and provides any update needed to bring the information contained in the Market Context Summary related to housing current. The goal is to identify specifically where and how the housing market is not meeting the current and future needs of the residents and local workforce throughout Surface Creek Valley in terms of product, location and pricing and steps to implement an action plan.  See document attached with map.

Tasks include, but are not limited to the following:

• Consultant will meet with the County and municipal policymakers, staff and housing stakeholders (builders, realtors, Delta County school district, local emergency service providers, local business owners, local medical providers and residents) to identify and clearly understand the need for affordable, attainable, workforce housing.  Working with this information and the Surface Creek Valley partners to establish the intended goals and outcomes for inclusion in the Housing Needs Assessment and Housing Action Plans.
• Update, refine and build upon any needs assessments completed in the past, and other relevant local and regional housing studies and reports.
• Information contained in the Housing Needs Assessment will include, but is not limited to:

• Demographic and Economic Framework
• Housing and Land Inventory
• Housing Market Conditions
• Housing Challenges and Opportunities
• Housing Gaps and Estimated Need
• Community Resources and Financial Tools including Land Inventory (vacant land, infill opportunities, empty homes and dilapidated residential structures, vacant community owned properties).
• Defining affordability based on current local population, e.g., what the County’s residents can afford to pay for housing.
• A comparison of what the proposed density looks like in the Housing Strategy Action Plan compared to what exists today.
  • • Land Use Codes reviewed for completion of a Housing Strategy Action Plan that will assist the County and municipal officials to prioritize and implement strategies to create the different types of housing suitable for various income levels and workforce types that may include:

• • • Incentives that would generate interest in building housing units on County/Town owned and/or private property by private investors.
    • Regulations, policies and programmatic changes that should be considered for adoption to diversify the housing stock needed across target areas.
  • Resource allocation and funding opportunities and strategies to address identified housing gaps, e.g., rental, senior, teacher/town employees, public safety employees and managers, medical service providers, local business employees/owners and/or family housing units.
  • Identification of existing buildings that could be rehabilitated or repurposed to address housing needs and demand.
  • Outline a five (5) year implementation plan for housing development for each of the Surface Creek Partner communities.
  • Provide information County/Town officials can use that will meet criteria sought by state and federal housing programs, and SB24-174, that provide local government grants to develop housing, utility and road infrastructure.
  • Preparation of up to three concept plans using a site determined by each participating partner community, to demonstrate what an affordable/attainable housing development might look like in that community using that communities land use codes, the criteria sought by state and federal housing programs and SB24-174.