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housing is available, being produced in the area and/or required to meet anticipated demand. <br />Monitoring shall. at a minimum, address the following elements: <br />a) MPR employee demographic information; <br />b) land use, population and housing information (population and housing projections. zoned <br />land available for housing. recent sales/rentals. housing vacancy rates. housing cost: <br />c) number of housing units in the development pipeline (approved but unbuilt, approved <br />preliminary plats, vested applications, etc.). <br />The participants shall establish benchmarks to help identifY changes attributable to MPR <br />employment, and the thresholds that will trigger housing actions identified in these Conditions. <br />Monitoring shall commence with approval of the first site development plan tor the MPR, and <br />shall proceed in yearly increments through Year I 0 (or approximately 2,400 units, 500 hotel <br />rooms, 36 holes of golf, and 150.000 sf of commercial use) after which time a revised schedule <br />\Viii be adopted. Housing monitoring reports shall be prepared semi-annually, or at some other <br />frequency acceptable to the participants, to document housing supply and demand. Reports will <br />be made available to the public. <br />C-60 Housing Production. To the extent that such housing is not produced in a timely manner <br />by private housing developers. and using the tools identified in Condition No. C-6 I, Trendwest <br />shall directly provide. as necessary. the amount. type and cost of housing necessary to mitigate <br />direct impacts associated with MPR operations and construction employment. If the supply of <br />new housing. as identified in the monitoring program, lags behind anticipated need --as <br />identified in the Final EIS. or in future adjustments of the data in the EIS --then the applicant <br />shall develop, directly or through joint venture, or will cause to be developed, sufficient housing <br />to meet the anticipated need. This housing may be provided on-site or off-site. as pem1itted by <br />Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan policies. <br />C-6 I The applicant shall prepare and implement a program providing incentives designed to <br />facilitate the planning. financing and development of housing to meet needs created by the MPR. <br />The program shall be developed with input from the county and nearby cities, and shall be <br />submitted to Kittitas County concurrent with subminal of an initial application for development <br />of the MPR. The housing program shall consider and propose one or more of the following <br />elements, as necessary to meet demand: <br />(a) low interest loans to employees (subject to credit and employment criteria), guarantees of <br />leases tor an agreed-upon percentage of multi-family units built by local developers. and <br />land subordination for construction loans obtained by local builders: <br />(b) tinancial and other support tor ongoing planning in local jurisdictions to encourage <br />sufficient, well-planned and designed housing, including support for design guidelines for <br />new housing that is consistent with local character. <br />Suncadia l'v!PR Conditions of Approval <br />December 2. 2008 <br />Page 32 <br />Index #32