The Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) requires the city of Del Mar to provide 37 very-low income units 64 low-income units and 31 moderate income units. Seaside Ridge would meet 78% of the City’s responsibility for lower income units on vacant sites (or 42% of the City’s assigned 6th Cycle RHNA for lower income units) and 100% of the City’s moderate-income allocation.

·       Promotes public access by providing a trail on the property that connects Camino del Mar to the bluff to allow views of the Pacific Ocean and new public open space for the general public for the first-time from this location.

·       Facilitates ingress/egress to the Project, public safety for pedestrians, bicycles, and vehicles, and replacement public parking through public improvements to Camino del Mar, as well as 25 public parking spaces on site.

·       Encourages coastal access in two very important ways: 1) it provides housing for every income group immediately near the coast; and 2) it provides first-time physical access to the bluff for the public to enjoy. Seaside Ridge is FULLY aware it is located in the Coastal Zone and has taken many voluntary steps to ensure that coastal resources and public access are protected and promoted well above what the city of Del Mar believes it is protecting by fighting this project.

·       Recognizes the California Coastal Commission (CCC) cares deeply about affordable housing along the coast; we’re confident the project achieves the spirit of the CCC’s Statewide Interpretive Guidelines on Affordable Housing in the Coastal Zone (May 5, 1981): “Meaningful access to the coast requires housing opportunities as well as other forms of coastal access... If the coast is not to exclude the less affluent members of society and become an exclusive enclave of the wealthy, affordable housing must be protected, encouraged, and, where feasible, provided.”

·       Incorporates design features that are sensitive to the coastal bluff, including no reliance on shoreline stabilization devices and onsite drainage retention with discharge east and away from the bluff. These efforts further ensure that coastal resources, such as sand retention, are protected.

·       Adheres to all objective design standards in the City’s certified LCP including the HEI-OZ – a high-density housing plan within the City’s LCP and certified by the CCC. In particular, the project meets the HEI-OZ requirement that units not exceed an average unit size of less than 1,000 sf. Seaside Ridge’s average unit size is 764 sf.