The Lafayette City Council is scheduled to review plans this Monday to consider selling the city-owned land at 949 Moraga Road in Lafayette, Contra Costa County. The council will consider plans to allow developers to replace the parking lot with affordable housing. Satellite Affordable Housing Associates and Sunflower Hill are responsible for the proposal.
Formal plans have yet to be published by the developer, but city records show that SAHA and Sunflower are planning to develop 48-unit affordable units. The development timeline foresees design review to occur in 2026 and construction to start around the end of 2027.
Lafayette acquired the property in 2010, eventually covering the 0.74 acres into parking. City staff have recommended that the city deem the site as exempt surplus land and draft the terms of sale for future negotiations and sale to an affordable housing developer.
This is not the first time a developer has considered bringing affordable housing to the lot along Moraga Street. Branagh Development approached the city to receive feedback about providing off-site affordable housing. However, the developer opted to include on-site affordable housing for the Woodbury Highlands projects, and the site remained untouched.
The City Council is scheduled to review the proposal during their meeting on Monday, February 10th, starting at 7 PM. The event will occur at the Lafayette Library, and streaming will be available through Zoom. For more information about how to attend and participate, visit the meeting agenda here.
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Only 48 units? I feel like you could fit a few more and still provide parking for everyone…
The locals are having an aneurysm that any affordable housing is being built at all and the traffic impacts. They would rather outsource their contribution to the housing crisis to other less wealthy cities.
A parking lot in Lafayette? That’s practically holy ground for rich suburbanites. Expect a years-long battle with people who really, really, really don’t want working-class brown people anywhere near them unless they’re performing a service.