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each site; in total, over 500 pages of comments were received and can be viewed on the City's website at: http: / /www.ci.pleasanton.ca.us/ business / planning /HousingElement/HEComments.html As noted on Attachment 4, the sites currently being considered add to approximately 100 acres. In order to accommodate the City's share of the regional housing need, about 70 acres should be rezoned, although staff recommends that the Draft Housing Element identify sites totaling approximately 85 acres or more to provide flexibility to the Council to select among the sites based on information in the Environmental Impact Report and community response, and to allow for the possibility that the Department of Housing and Community Development disqualifies one or more sites. The decision on the list of sites to include for consideration in the draft Housing Element would be made by the City Council at its July 19 meeting; formal action on rezoning of these sites would not be taken until after completion of the Environmental Impact Report. Housing Element Programs: Staff's recommendation to the Housing Element Task Force is that most of the programs included in the 2003 Housing Element be carried forward with adjustments and refinements where necessary. A review and assessment of the programs included in the 2003 Housing Element is shown in Attachment 6. In addition to these programs, the updated Housing Element will also have to address legislative mandates enacted since the 2003 Housing Element (related to the provision of emergency shelters, transitional and supportive housing, and housing for extremely low income persons), as well as provisions included in the Settlement Agreement in the matter of Urban Habitat v. City of Pleasanton as they relate to addressing special needs housing, housing for large families, facilitating development of housing by a non - profit developer and presenting an annual report regarding housing to the City Council. The approaches for addressing these topics as discussed by staff and the Housing Element Task Force are as follows: • Meeting the requirements for allowing emergency shelters "by right ": Staff proposes that such facilities be allowed as a permitted use in the C -S (Commercial Service) district. Areas zoned C -S (Commercial Service) are shown on Attachment 7. As allowed by State law, staff would also draft development standards for emergency shelters that would address: setbacks, height and other development regulations; parking requirements; onsite management and security; and length of stay. • Transitional Housing: Transitional housing is defined as affordable rental housing for stays of at least six months where the units are recirculated to another eligible program recipient after a set period. The State requires that this type of housing be treated as a residential use under local land use regulations. Therefore, units serving six or fewer residents would be allowed as a permitted use in single family residential areas; developments with more than six residents would either require a use permit or would be restricted to multifamily residential districts. • Supportive Housing: This housing has no limit on length of stay, is linked to on- site or off -site services and is occupied by a target population defined in the California Health & Safety Code (e.g. low income persons with mental disabilities, Page 4 of 6