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you have to provide enough land to accept your regional fair share of housing, which sometimes you don't have that and can't accomplish providing the land within the required timeline. The City didn't zone enough and couldn't keep the promise of the program to look at additional properties within Hacienda and didn't meet our timeline. It became a problem for a group of housing advocates, which is known as Urban Habitat and filed a lawsuit against the City in 2006, which wasn't resolved until 2010. He shared how the lawsuit alleged how the City hadn't done the rezoning which was true and it invalidated the City's housing cap and concluded that our housing cap that set a limit on the residential development in our town to 29,000 housing units was inconsistent with state law. After four years of litigation, the City did lose the case and their housing cap, but negotiated the ability to undertake a Task Force process for Hacienda Rezonings. This took nine months with the 21 member task force which was broadly represented, which came to some common ground and made a recommendation for an adoption of TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) Standards and Design Guidelines which were adopted on March 1, 2011. Referenced and summarized the three Hacienda Sites on a map that totaled 29 acres, which could house 30-55 units per acres (870 to 1,575 homes). This development could generate 654 school-aged children, but more like approximately 500 children or less because of the economy and the housing market. With the current boundaries that are in place, these children would attend Donlon Elementary, Hart Middle School and Foothill High School. Trustee Hintzke asked the size of the dwellings in this development. Mr. Dolan responded that they have not been proposed. but stated that they could have some studio units in them, and a requirement of at least three bedrooms in a portion of them. The vast majority will be one and two bedrooms. Trustee Grant noted that similar projects were looked at in surrounding communities and the occupancy of families and kids in order to come up with the 500-654 numbers. Mr. Dolan stated that they relied on the demographers study to relate to the estimate of students. Vice Mayor Cook-Kallio asked if the 500 was a net gain or was this what the area will generate. What will the gain be elsewhere in the City. Mr. Dolan responded that it was only the sites. PUSD's last demographers report showed a growth in elementary. Mr. Dolan continued to share that they gave them a number of 920 units and they included that estimate of units in this particular area and the report recommended that by year 2020, PUSD would need a new elementary school. Superintendent Ahmadi noted that an updated demographers report and a facilities master plan would be brought to the board in May as the last one that was created was in 1996. Mr. Dolan reviewed the housing elementary required rezonings and noted that the state issues numbers that are assigned to regions every eight years or so, is distributed to the county and then to the city level. He noted that they are obligated to provide an additional 50 acres zoned at 30 units per acre and an additional 15 acres at approximately 25 units per acre. The requirement for 30 is set, in which the state has dictated that number. He shared that they are under no obligation to build this housing on the part of the City; it's the responsibility of the private real estate market. They will bring the proposals to us for review, but we don't proactively go out and build this housing. With the figures mentioned above, that would bring in approximately 2,000 additional homes which would be approximately 820 school aged children. It will be a challenge to find this land to rezone and it's important to remember that its very unlikely there will be a mad rush to develop all of it. Some of it will happen, but right now the residential market is pretty dead. The Council appointed another Task Force to help with this process, which is smaller, but has similar broad representation with only 11 members. Their primary task is to help find the sites that we should be looking at. He reviewed the draft information regarding potential housing sites, which totaled 108 acres, 81 with 23 units and 3141 with 30 units. Trustee Laursen asked if the Legacy site is right next to the current transfer station. Mr. Dolan responded "yes". She asked if and when that parcel becomes rezoned, the transfer station is slated to move on at one point, is there a concern about timing. Mr. Dolan responded while that site rated fairly well in the criteria, it did have some negatives and that was one of them. Another concern about the Joint City Council and PUSD Board Minutes Page 2 of 7 March 28, 2011