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Housing Element Policy 9: Promote mixed -use development where appropriate throughout the city, such as residential uses constructed over commercial uses and adjacent to transit. Use the PUD process to reduce residential development standards in mixed use developments, such as sharing parking and reducing open space. Apply for federal and state grants offered for mixed use development near transit centers. Policy 16: Strive toward meeting Pleasanton's share of regional housing needs, as defined by the Regional Housing Needs Determination (RHND). Policy 19: Make appropriate modifications to the Land Use Element of the General Plan, Zoning Ordinance, and other City ordinances, programs, and policies to facilitate the provision of housing, especially housing affordable to moderate -, low- and very-low- income households. ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION An initial study and a Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration (Attachment 2) was prepared and published /posted on January 26, 2011. The 20 -day public review period will end on February 14, 2011. The Initial Study identified five impacts that could be significant without mitigation. These are: Air Quality (which may require preparation of a Health Risk Assessment for projects that locate residents within 1,000 feet of the freeway or Hacienda Drive), Greenhouse Gas Emissions (which will require the implementation of General Plan Best Managernent Practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions), Noise (which will require acoustical analysis and mitigation to reduce interior noise levels to City standards, and analysis of vibration impacts from BART), Traffic (which will require payment of Traffic Development Fees, and the mitigations for left -turns at Willow Road and Gibraltar Drive, and Gibraltar Drive and Hacienda Drive, as described in the Traffic Impacts section, below), and Utilities and Service Systems (which will require moving up the planned repair to an existing sewer trunk main, and the construction of a new sewer pump station). A comment from Cyrus Sheik of the Livermore Amador Valley Transportation Authority (LAVTA) was received on February 7, 2011 and is shown in Attachment 5. LAVTA's concern regarding access to the BART station if the capacity of Owens Drive is constrained, and the location of the bus stop and shelter on the south side of Owens Drive would be addressed at the time a development proposal for Parcel 1 is received and an option for improvements on Owens Drive is selected. Based on the initial study, staff believes that the project impacts, as they are known at this time, are less than significant with mitigation. Staff, therefore, believes that the Mitigated Negative Declaration can be adopted in conformance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). TRAFFIC IMPACTS A Traffic Analysis of the Hacienda Transit Oriented Development (Attachment 5) prepared in conjunction with the Initial Study concluded that eight intersections operated Page 6 of 8