City staff members are proposing ways to incentivize affordable housing, how to incorporate increased departures designed for affordable housing into the city’s administrative review process and how the planned unit development process — which essentially allows developers to skirt some city standards if they can provide enough public benefits — can be retooled to focus on affordability.

The city is also planning for a slew of changes to the unified development code that city staff suggests be made in the short term, as well as a longer-term, complete overhaul of the code.