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CITY OF SANTA ANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY <br />REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT <br />EXHIBIT A- SCOPE OF SERVICES <br />The City of Santa Ana (City) has adopted a Consolidated Five Year Plan (Plan) that governs its <br />expenditure of formula grant funds received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban <br />Development (HUD). The Plan identifies the development of affordable rental housing as a high <br />priority. It further stipulates that HOME Investment Partnership Act funds (HOME) may appropriately <br />be used to meet these goals. As of the date of this Request for Proposals (RFP) the City has <br />approximately $1.5 million in HOME funds available to commit to such activities. <br />In order to meet these goals, the City is soliciting proposals for the development of affordable housing <br />projects from developers who are experienced, very knowledgeable of the HOME Program and its <br />requirements, financially creative and capable of developing, managing and maintaining high quality <br />housing. The City will entertain proposals for the following type of projects: <br />• Acquisition and Rehabilitation of Existing Residential Rental Projects <br />The selected developer will also have a demonstrated history of working cooperatively with <br />surrounding neighborhoods in all phases of project development. Both nonprofit and for profit <br />developers are eligible to apply, either individually or in partnership with other entities. Due to HUD's <br />commitment deadlines for the City's funds, it is imperative that applicants be able to demonstrate site <br />control for the existing facility they propose to acquire and rehabilitate. HUD policy generally <br />discourages the use of federal grant funds as the only financing source for housing projects. As a <br />consequence, developers who can demonstrate the capability to make non-federal funds a significant <br />part of the financing mix for their proposed project will score higher in the selection process than <br />those who cannot. <br />The City intends and expects to award all available funds to a single developer for a single project <br />selected from the proposals submitted by the January 6, 2014 deadline. Should it be unable to do so, <br />it will announce the availability of the remaining funds and accept applications for those funds up to a <br />deadline tentatively identified as February 19, 2014. <br />A. DEVELOPMENT SITE PREFERENCES <br />The City is not making any parcels it owns available for development through this RFP, and it will <br />entertain proposals for suitable properties located anywhere in the City. However, the City prefers to <br />maximize the positive impact of its limited federal housing development funds by concentrating their <br />expenditure in targeted areas of the City. The City has identified five geographical areas where it has <br />targeted significant public resources in the past, and where it would like to see additional resources <br />targeted in the future. The five are known as follows: Cornerstone Village (Attachment 1), Transit <br />Zoning District (Attachment 2), Townsend-Raitt (Attachment 3), Cedar-Evergreen (Attachment 4), and <br />1900-2000 Myrtle Street (Attachment 5). <br />Please note that one of the bonus rating criteria of this RFP is location of the proposed project. <br />City of Santa Ana Community Development Agency <br />Request for Proposals for Affordable Housing Development <br />196-'4