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approximately 2,000 units. This would allow the City Council to make a final selection of sites based on comments from HCD and information included in the Environmental Impact Report. CONSISTENCY OF DRAFT HOUSING ELEMENT WITH STATE HOUSING LAW Staff and the City's Housing Element consultant are completing a review of the Draft Housing Element and Background Report (Attachments 1 and 2) to ensure that all required data and analysis is included and that the mandates of recent housing legislation are met prior to the submittal of the Draft Housing Element to HCD. TAX CREDIT ALLOCATION COMMITTEE (TCAC) SCORING OF SITES Part of the Settlement Agreement includes a commitment by the City to score the potential sites using site amenity criteria included in the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) Application. These criteria are similar to those used by the Housing Element Task Force to rate the sites, and are focused on amenities such as: distance to transit, parks, library, grocery store, school, senior center, medical clinic, pharmacy, and other service facilities. Staff has prepared this information and has met with several affordable housing providers to discuss the results. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW Staff and consultants are currently preparing a draft Environmental Impact Report for this project. A draft EIR is anticipated to be available in August 2011, prior to any formal action being taken on rezoning any sites or adopting the Housing Element. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of this item was published in The Valley Times. Notice cards were sent to owners and tenants in properties within 1,000 feet of each of the potential housing sites. In addition, the City sent notification to about 420 interested parties who have provided e- mail addresses during the Housing Element update process. PUBLIC COMMENT Attached to this agenda report as Attachment 11 are communications from the public received since the Planning Commission meeting on June 22. However, since the start of the Housing Element Update process several hundred communications have been received. These are available for review on the City's website on the Housing Element Update/Task Force page under "Comments". NEXT STEPS Attachment 10 provides an overview of the remaining steps in the Housing Element update process which include: responding to HCD's comments; review and consideration of the Environmental Impact Report; formal review of the Draft Housing Element by the Housing Commission and Planning Commission and adoption by the City Council; and, concurrent redesignation of sites to allow multifamily residential development sufficient to meet the City's share of the regional housing need. Page 8 of 9