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E. The growth management system will not prevent the city from attaining its <br /> regional fair share of housing needs as determined by the Association of Bay Area <br /> Governments (ABAG) because the system permits exemptions for senior housing and <br /> very low /low income housing developments. <br /> F. The housing chapter of the 1987 -2005 Petaluma General Plan has been certified <br /> by the State Department of Housing and Community Development based on the city's <br /> ability to satisfy regional housing needs while maintaining its growth management <br /> system. <br /> (Ord. 1795 NCS §1, 1990; Ord. 1716 NCS §1 (part), 1988.) <br /> 17.26.030 Definitions. <br /> For the purpose of this chapter, the words set out in this section shall have the <br /> following meanings: <br /> A. "Allocation" means the right, granted by the city council, to make application to <br /> create a residential lot or build a residential unit. An allocation is not a guarantee of <br /> receiving approval for the requested number of lots or units proposed by the residential <br /> development application. The actual number of lots or units approved shall be <br /> determined by the planning commission and city council through the development <br /> review process. <br /> B. Allotment. See "Allocation." For purposes of this chapter, the terms "allotment" <br /> and "allocation" are used interchangeably. <br /> C. "Annual allocation pool" means the numerical total of allocations as set by the <br /> city council and available for distribution to qualifying projects in a given year. <br /> D. Application, Complete. "Complete application" means a determination made by <br /> the director of community development or his /her designee that all of the required <br /> information submitted by an applicant for a development project is correct and ready for <br /> processing. For projects requiring an environmental determination (negative declaration, <br /> focused studies, an environmental impact report), an application will not be deemed <br /> complete until sufficient information has been provided by the applicant for the city, as <br /> lead agency, to make a determination of the extent of the environmental review. <br /> E. Application, Development. "Development application" means all information <br /> required of the applicant in order to initiate the development review process. <br /> F. "Development objective" means a statement, made annually by the city council, <br /> and approved by resolution, expressing the council's priorities with respect to desired <br /> future conditions of residential development for the coming building year. These <br /> priorities may include, but are not limited to, consideration of such factors as traffic, <br /> schools and housing type and location. Those projects which, in the opinion of the city <br /> council, sufficiently satisfy one or more development objectives may be given all, some, <br /> or none of its allocation request while other projects may only receive a lesser <br /> percentage of or none of, its allocation request. Although development objectives are <br /> not binding on a specific project or projects; the city council shall consider a project's <br /> efforts to meet the development objectives when granting allocations in years when the <br /> number of allocations requested exceeds the number of available annual allocations. <br /> The city council shall use the development objectives in addition to general plan policy <br /> as criteria for distributing allocations to individual projects. <br /> G. "Development review process" means all of the various steps required to receive <br /> city approval for a development project. For purposes of this chapter, the development <br />