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• Review the City's condominium conversion ordinance to identify desirable changes such as potentially requiring more affordable units and longer tenant noticing requirements, to minimize the impact and displacement of lower income tenants (Program 8.5); • Conduct a review of the City's Growth Management Program and amend as necessary to assure the rate of residential development is consistent with the City's current and new infrastructure capacities (Program 9.1); • Complete rezoning and General Plan amendments necessary to accommodate the City's full share of the regional housing need (Program 11.1); • Assess the level of effort to overcome infrastructure constraints to affordable housing on a periodic basis (Program 14.6); • Review the City's Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance for consistency with Housing Element goals, to identify incentives for non-profit housing developers, to encourage the development of larger residential units, and to determine if it is appropriate to increase the percentage of units affordable to lower income households (Program 16.2); • When allocating the City's Lower Income Housing Fund, consider whether a joint non-profit/for-profit development should be a higher priority due to the ability to secure better funding and be developed (Program 17.5); • Require as many affordable units as feasible to incorporate Universal Design standards to meet the needs of persons with disabilities and to allow for aging in place (Programs 41.2 and 41.8) • Referencing programs in other elements of the General Plan (Energy, Air Quality and Climate Change, Water, and Community Character) related to green building, and water and energy conservation, and eliminating several programs in the Housing Element related to these topics. • Explore the potential for utilizing the City's Lower Income Housing Fund for low- interest loans to support alternative energy usage and/or significant water conservation systems in exchange for securing housing units affordable to very low income and low income households (Program 44.2). Letters from EBHO and Citizens for a Caring Community: Public input on the Goals, Policies and Programs includes a letter dated June 21, 2011, from Peter Cohen, Policy Director of EBHO (East Bay Housing Organizations) and letters from Becky Dennis representing Citizens for a Caring Community, the latest of which is dated July 6, 2011. These letters are included in Attachment 11. In the letter from EBHO, Peter Cohen acknowledges the City's Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (IZO) but contends that reliance on the IZO alone will not result in the City achieving its housing goals. He asks that the City look at master planning larger development areas and identify larger joint development opportunity sites that would allow non-profit and for-profit housing developers to jointly develop housing projects. Staff proposes a new Program 45.5 whereby the City would work with the East Pleasanton Specific Plan property owners to secure a site for development of family housing by a non-profit housing developer. This program is included in Attachment 2. Mr. Cohen also asks for consideration of additional incentives for affordable housing which would capture some of the additional "windfall" value which would be conveyed on the property owner by the rezoning to residential. He Page 5 of 9