The National Association of Home Builders' BUILD-PAC, the group's bipartisan political arm that helps elect pro-housing, pro-business candidates to federal office, will be holding a fundraiser in Sacramento. The event is tomorrow, October 17, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and will take place at the office of Homes by Towne ( 11060 White Rock Road, Ste. 150, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670). The featured guest for tomorrow's event will be Congressman Tom McClintock.  For questions or to register, please contact Katie Donahue-Duran .

Last week, the House of Representatives approved a $36.5 billion emergency spending package that includes $18.7 billion to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster relief fund. Key to the homebuilding industry is a $16 billion earmark to cancel the existing debt of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is dealing with the devastating destruction in the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. By buying down a portion of the NFIP debt, this would allow FEMA to borrow additional funds from the Treasury without asking Congress to raise the borrowing authority for the flood insurance program.  In a win for NAHB, the bill does not include a proposal put forth by the Office of Management and Budget that would phase out new NFIP policies for newly-constructed homes. Please contact Chris Norem for questions or additional information.

Placer County Parks Master Plan Update

A public meeting was held this past week where county staff presented the findings of the recent Placer County Parks and Trails Master Plan survey and what the Granite Bay community identified as recreation priorities. More information on the survey and the update to the master plan can be found here.

Roseville Economic Development Plan Update

On September 20, the Roseville City Council adopted the City's new 2017-2022 Economic Development Strategy.  This five-year plan outlines a framework for the City's future economic growth. The plan establishes goals for nurturing business investment; it focuses on partnerships, sharing resources, and building competitive advantages.  The plan can be found here. 

El Dorado Hills CSD Park Fee Update

The El Dorado Hills CSD released their nexus study to the industry in May 2017. A working group and an outside consultant have been meeting with the CSD staff and their consultants for the last several months to work through concerns with the costs. The current proposed fee is $11,700 for single family. We issued a written letter to the CSD detailing our remaining concerns in early September, and received a written response from the CSD two weeks ago. That response has been distributed to our working group and we will be discussing our next steps internally at this week's El Dorado BDC meeting.

Sacramento BDC Recap

 Last week, the Sacramento Builder/Developer Council welcomed our October guest speaker, Ryan DeVore, Community Development Director with the City of Sacramento. He discussed his efforts to streamline processes, the fee deferral program, the SCIP program, and the hiring of additional consultants for plan checks/counter help. He also discussed the city's efforts to provide services to the homeless and the progress on the city's efforts to build more housing downtown. So far 2,000 units have been delivered or are under construction.