No County County Executive Officer for Old Boomers: When Orange County Baby Boomers Retire, Where Will They Live?*

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Affordable Senior Housing: Include the current and projected affordable senior housing inventory by type, location and cost in the 2008 and future years' development of the Housing Element. The recommendation has been implemented. Response: Senior Population Growth: Include sufficient data in the Housing Element to

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acknowledge the imminent growth in the county's aging population. This data is to include the current population and the growth trend of the aging baby boomer generation as well as the current median income and income trend of the senior population. The recommendation has not yet been implemented, but will be Response: implemented in the future. The County is currently undertaking its 2008 Update to the Housing Element and will take the opportunity to include a discussion that addresses the aging baby boomer population. This will include available data regarding current and future population and income trends for seniors in the unincorporated area. Exhibit 2 بر

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Online Access: Put all Housing Elements online on each city's website. Response: The recommendation has been implemented. The County's General Plan including the Housing Element are available through the OC Planning website at: ocplanning.net. In addition, the Draft 2008 Update to the Housing Element and associated documents are also available on the website.

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Senior Housing Development: Confer with developers to establish the needs for affordable senior housing and to encourage investments in future projects. Response: The recommendation has been implemented. Affordable Housing is a County strategic priority. From a financing perspective, the County is active in encouraging developers to apply for a variety of funding available for the development of affordable rental housing for all types of housing (families, seniors, special needs, etc). The County utilizes Federal, State and local funds to finance affordable rental housing throughout Orange County. The County recognizes there is a need for all types of affordable housing including senior housing. Since 1999, the County has financed 598 units of affordable (at or below 60% of the Orange County Median Income) rental housing for seniors throughout Orange County. In total, the County has financed 2,024 affordable rental units, which although not restricted only to seniors, are also available to low-income seniors. In recognizing that many seniors are on fixed incomes, the County's Affordable Rental Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) requires a minimum of 20% of all affordable rental units financed for seniors be restricted at extremely low-incomes (at or below 30% of Orange County Area Median Income). The County will continue to encourage developers to apply for financing available to develop affordable rental housing throughout Orange County. From a planning perspective, the County has been active in working with landowners such as the Rancho Mission Viejo Company (RMV) in planning the Ranch Plan Planned Community, the last, large residential development scheduled for construction in the unincorporated area. The Development Agreement (DA) negotiated and entered into between the County and RMV for The Ranch Plan Planned Community includes the requirement for the provision of affordable housing. RMV is obligated to provide 60 acres to the County for the development of up to 1,500 affordable housing units, a number of which could be age-restricted. RMV has expressed a willingness to strategize with the County to develop strategies to encourage the development of affordable senior housing. It is anticipated that 5,000 of the units in the 14,000-unit Ranch Plan Planned Community will be age-restricted so the addition of affordable senior housing units in the community should be seamless. The County's OC Planning has also identified an "affordable housing project manager" on staff who will assist affordable housing developers through the planning application approval process. This is intended to encourage and facilitate the development of affordable housing units including those for seniors.