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Ms. Stern stated that she will review the changes and comments received on the Goals, Policies, and Programs, as well as some additional comments from letters received very late into the process. She noted that the Commission may want to consider referring those letters back to staff for further analysis to allow staff to present to the City Council how to implement some of the ideas in those letters. Ms. Stern continued that she will discuss the List of Sites, after which the Commission will decide whether it wants to refine the list further or take the entire list through to the Draft Housing Element to be submitted to the HCD. She added that the Commission can refine the list when it returns to the Commission with the HCD comments, based on those comments and the EIR. Finally, Ms. Stern stated that she also will discuss some of the work related to scoring sites on the Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) criteria which was a commitment the City made as part of the Settlement Agreement. Stern stated that at the last HEUTF meeting, there was lot of discussion on the sites, including those presented by Dave Stark, a HEUTF member, regarding second-unit monitoring requirements, terms used regarding affordability, the value of housing education through regional partnerships, and the need to undertake extensive public outreach with respect to the zoning updates regarding emergency shelters and supportive and transitional housing. She noted that these comments were passed on to the Housing Commission at its meeting last week, and the Housing Commission accepted Mr. comments and incorporated them into the DHE, which is staff report. She added that staff also incorporated a couple of comments from a letter submitted by Becky Dennis of Citizens for a Caring Community, and referred still other comments to the Growth Management Subcommittee. She noted that the Housing Commission also directed staff to modify Policy 26 to clarify an intent to keep all income-restricted units in perpetuity, and a couple of edits were made on Goals 5 and 11 relating to removing -it is a loose term and one not easy to define. Ms. Stern then briefed the Commission on the community meeting held on Monday, June 20, 2011. She stated that the purpose of that meeting was to provide an opportunity for the neighbors to weigh in on some sites one in the Downtown, two on Sunol Boulevard, and one on Stanley Boulevard which were not included in the community meetings held in March. She indicated that there were about 25 attendees, and a number of general comments were made about the Housing Element process, about densities, and about the percentage of units which were going to be built for affordable- to low- and very-low income households. She noted that there were several neighbors from 4202 Stanley Boulevard; Site 21, who had concerns about parking and who felt the traffic congestion on Stanley Boulevard was very bad several times during the day, and had concerns about how a higher density development was going to fit in over in that area. She added that there was also a written comment about Site 18; the Downtown site, regarding traffic and parking issues, with a suggestion that the area be developed as a park. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 22, 2011 Page 4 of 33