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Arcata News.  January 16, 2022

3 minutes 42 seconds

Arcata News has made an informative brief video that provides an accurate summation of some of the background of the Gateway plan.  Released about 6 weeks following the public introduction to the draft Gateway plan document.  Facebook page link

KEET Headline Humboldt — January 14, 2022

Interview with Arcata Community Development Senior Planner Delo Freitas.
Section runs from the start up to 22 minutes 10 seconds.

Draft Gateway Area Plan Community Presentation

with Rob Holmlund, formerly of Planwest   December 13, 2021
1 hour 4 minutes

To view this video with an entire transcription (in English or Español), click here.

This introduction to the Draft Gateway Area Plan was presented shortly after the draft document was released.  It explains the Draft Plan on a chapter-by-chapter basis.

Unfortunately, there are large factual flaws in this presentation.  These issues are covered in an an article on this website and can be seen by clicking here.

Of particular noteworthiness is section the potential build-out of the area where Wing Inflatables is currently located.  This 4-minute section starts at around 27 minutes 14 seconds.

Strategic Infill Redevelopment Program CEQA Agency Scoping Presentation

April, 2022    25 minutes 49 seconds

Note the population increase graphs, starting at 21 minutes.  The chart shows the difference between 20% growth and 54% growth over a 20-year period are shown.

On November 10, 2020, David Loya spoke at a “brown bag” lunch hosted by the Redwood Coast Chapter of the AEP/APA [Association of Environmental Professionals, American Planning Association].

Synopsis:  “Arcata Gateway Project: The K Street corridor is a de facto gateway to Arcata, its Downtown, and the Creamery District. It is also low hanging fruit on the post-RDA redevelopment tree. David Loya, Director of Community Development, will discuss how to use planning, stakeholder engagement, and multi-sector alignment to spark community revitalization.”
[Note:  “Post-RDA” refers to the previous city Redevelopment Agencies, which were closed in 2011.]

The Affordable Housing Challenge

A Brown Bag OLLI presentation, featuring:
•  Chris Dart of The Danco Group
•  Beth Matsumoto of the Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation

This is the video and transcription of the OLLI Brown Bag Lunch Presentation from December 12, 2022, on the Affordable Housing Challenge. It is about 1 hour 20 minutes long.

To watch the video and read a transcription of what was said, click here.

With Chris Dart, president of the Danco Group and specialist in construction of affordable housing, and Beth Matsumoto, Director of Multifamily Development of the non-profit Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation. Jane Woodward, moderator.

As a developer with much experience, Chris Dart knows what it takes to build affordable apartments. Included in his presentation are these statements:

• You’re not seeing a lot of market rate apartments being done. Because the cost to produce a market rate apartment would really, for a median household, be more like 50% of their income would have to be spent on housing to afford that.
• In general, the cost of construction goes up substantially when you go above four-story construction. It’s pretty unfeasible, for the cost of construction, to be able to build that high [eight stories].
• The California Code allows you to do five stories of wood. But if you were to go above five, you’d have to do concrete podium foundation or podium construction. And that gets into a higher cost.
• We have not been able to find a market-rate model that works. The cost to build is so high that our rents would have to be extremely high to be able to bring a market rate project into production.