Common use of Affordable Housing Requirements Clause in Contracts

Affordable Housing Requirements. (a) The Onsite Affordable Housing must meet the affordable housing principles set out in the City’s ‘Affordable Housing Program’ adopted 24 August 2020 or any such updated or amended version of this document in effect at the time of lodgement of the Development Application. (b) Subject to any approval provided by the City under clause 2.5(f) of Schedule 3, the required square meterage of Affordable Housing, as determined in accordance with clause 2.1 of Schedule 3, must be in the form of Affordable Housing Dwellings, excluding car or storage spaces, and cannot include common circulation areas except where all Affordable Housing Dwellings are provided as a full floor of a building or a standalone building and the inclusion of the common circulation areas in the square meterage is agreed by the City. (c) The Developer and Landowner must design, construct and fit-out the Affordable Housing Dwellings, at their cost. (d) Each Affordable Housing Dwelling must have a total minimum floor area of 35 square metres (excluding any car or storage spaces). (e) The amenity objectives established by the Apartment Design Guide published by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment in effect at the time of lodgement of the Development Application must be generally achieved for all Affordable Housing Dwellings (e.g. 70% of the Affordable Housing Dwellings should achieve adequate solar access). (f) Subject to clause 2.2(g) of Schedule 3, all Affordable Housing Dwellings must be designed, constructed and fitted out to the same standard, and with a fit-out of the same scope, as the other residential dwellings in the Development. The Affordable Housing Dwellings must not be differentiated as affordable housing compared with the design, construction and fit-out of other housing in the Development. (g) The Developer and Landowner must make changes to the design, construction and fit-out of the Affordable Housing Dwellings as reasonably required by the Community Housing Provider to suit the Community Housing Provider’s future use and maintenance program for the Affordable Housing Dwellings, including changes that relate to: (i) the configuration and/or layout of the Affordable Housing Dwellings; (ii) the finishes, materiality and/or durability of the construction and/or fit-out of the Affordable Housing Dwellings; or (iii) any accessibility requirements for the Affordable Housing Dwellings.