A. The city shall accept subdivision development applications in final approval form for each calendar year at a prescribed time. The city shall competitively evaluate the submitted applications for quality in at least: tract design, architecture and construction proximity and access to available city and school services, preservation of agricultural land, low income and minority housing requirements, senior citizen needs and price. The city shall select those applications, within the limits of section 19.04.030 of this chapter, which are superior in overall evaluation, for building permit approval. The city shall amend the existing procedure for competitive evaluation within ninety (90) days from the date of adoption of the ordinance codified herein to make the procedure and evaluation system consistent with measure N.
B. To encourage construction of single-family infill housing, the city council shall reserve until October 1 of each year, fifty (50) of the four hundred (400) authorized building permits for the construction of single-family homes on existing lots of record as of the effective date of measure N. (§ 4 of measure N, passed by voters 11-3-1987: § 4 of proposition R, passed by voters 11-7-1978)