California Coalition for Rural Housing

California Coalition for Rural Housing

Working to ensure affordable housing opportunities for low income and rural households since 1976.

California Inclusionary Housing Policy Database

 

Irvine, Orange County

Policy and Jurisdiction Information

Population: 202,079
Land Area (sq mi.): 46.5
Year Adopted: not available
Compliance Type: mandatory
Policy Type: ordinance
   

Developer Options

Construction Alternatives

  • (offered)conversion to affordable housing
  • (offered)credit transfer
  • (offered)in-lieu fee
  • (offered)land dedication
  • (offered)off-site construction

In-Lieu Fee Structure: formula

Projects with less than 50 units may utilize one of the menu options listed in Sections 2-3-5.B.3, in-lieu of providing affordable units.

Incentives

  • (not offered)clustering of IH units
  • (not offered)delayed building of IH units
  • (offered)density bonus
  • (offered)fast-track processing
  • (not offered)fee deferral
  • (offered)fee reduction
  • (offered)fee waiver
  • (offered)flexible design standards
  • (not offered)growth control extension
  • (not offered)subsidies
  • (not offered)tax abatement
  • (not offered)(other)

Requirements

  Rental Units Ownership Units
IH Requirement Threshold any project any project
% Production Required fixed formula; 15% fixed formula; 15%
Targeted Groups
  • (not offered)extremely low income
  • (offered)very low income
  • (offered)low income
  • (offered)moderate income
  • (not offered)above-moderate income
  • (offered)senior
  • (not offered)extremely low income
  • (offered)very low income
  • (offered)low income
  • (offered)moderate income
  • (not offered)above-moderate income
  • (offered)senior
Length of Affordability 30 years 30 years

Production Data

Production data not available for this jurisdiction.


Residential building permit activity 5 years before and after adoption of ordinance:

permit data not available

last updated January 28, 2008