Amador County – The Jackson City Council last night was to consider a recommendation from its planning commission for the year’s Housing Equivalent Units allocations.

The official action determines the number of housing units “available for subdivision application process in 2011 and establish criteria for reviewing proposals from developers.”

The Jackson Planning Commission in its meeting Feb. 22 reviewed the issues and “recommended a Housing Equivalent Units (HEUs) allocation availability of 150 for 2011,” according to a staff report by Jackson City Manager Mike Daly and City Planner Susan Peters.

The report said “the planning commissioners chose 150 HEUs because it allows for a reasonable sized project to be applied for while still allowing for some reserve in sewer capacity.” The report said the “design evaluation criteria recommended by the Planning Commission is what is listed in the Resource Constraints and Priority Allocation Policy.”

The system was adopted in 2004, Daly and Peters’ report said, and in “2008 the Planning Commission determined that the HEUs should be set at zero. The zero allocation was due to a desire to see the impacts of previously approved allocation projects since none had been built and occupied.”

In December 2010 and January 2011, the City Council extended the Housing Equivalent Units of three residential developments, including 26 for the Shealor Trust Property, which submitted a tentative parcel map application.

Also extended were 100 HEUs for the Fuller Family Partnership, for which the “Planning Department has not yet received an application for a project at this site.”

St. Patrick’s Church also had 86 HEUs extended, for its St. Patrick’s Park subdivision, and an application has been submitted to the planning department, but it awaits preparation of an Environmental Impact Report.

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