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Special Needs Housing Goal 17: Identify and make special provisions for the community's special housing needs. Policy 46: Provide for the special housing needs of lazge families, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, and families with single-pazent heads of households. Program 46.1: Provide housing opportunities for households with special needs such as studio and one-bedroom apartments for the elderly, three-bedroom apartments for lazge families, specially designed units for the disabled, emergency shelter and transitional housing for the homeless, and affordable units for single-pazent heads of households. Program 46.2: Require as many low- and very low-income units as is feasible within large rental projects to be accessible and adaptable to the disabled. Program 46.3: Set aside a portion of the City's CDBG funds each year to developers of special need housing and service providers. Program 46.4: Set aside a portion of the City's low-income housing fund for housing projects which accommodate the needs of special housing groups such as the physically, mentally, or developmentally disabled. Program 46.5: Encourage the production of housing for the disabled in infill locations, which are accessible to City services. Program 46.6: Encourage the conversion or development of group homes for six persons or less (i.e. community care facilities) in appropriate locations throughout the community. Program 46.7: Encourage the provision of special needs housing, such as community care facilities for the elderly, the mentally or physically disabled, and dependent or neglected children, in residential and mixed-use areas, especially near transit and other services. Program 46.8: Designate azeas within Pleasanton for the location of emergency shelters and for transitional housing for the homeless, and amend the Zoning Ordinance to allow such facilities. Revised Draft Housing Element Goals, Policies, and Programs: 1/28/02 - 17 -