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Report covering the Draft Housing Element and the rezoning and other land use changes for 17 potential multifamily housing sites, and the City's Draft Climate Action Plan. The public review period for the DSEIR closed on November 14, 2011. The Planning Commission held a public hearing for public input on the DSEIR on October 26, 2011. Following the public review period, a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (FSEIR) has been prepared (Attachment 1), which includes responses to comments on the DSEIR raised during the public review period, and includes revisions intended to correct, clarify, and amplify the DSEIR. If certified, the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) would be a supplement to the EIR prepared for the Pleasanton 2005-2025 General Plan which was certified in July 2009. At this time, the City Council is being asked to certify the SEIR documents, to approve General Plan Amendments and Specific Plan Amendments where appropriate, and to introduce ordinances for rezoning for a list of nine sites (see Table I) to allow multifamily or single family residential development or mixed use (including multifamily residential) development. The City Council will approve the rezoning at its January 10, 2012 meeting and will consider adoption of the updated Housing Element in early February, 2012. HOUSING COMMISSION ACTION The Housing Commission reviewed the Draft Housing Element on November 17, 2011. At that time, staff discussed with the Commission HCD's comments on the City's inclusionary zoning ordinance, units at-risk of converting to market rate units, meeting the needs of extremely low income households, and proposed amended language for the following programs: 6.2 Affordable rental second units; 9.1 Review and revise the Growth Management Program, 9.4 Providing incentives for lower income housing development, 17.4 Use of Lower Income Housing Fund, 25.1 Encourage housing for lower income households on HDR sites; 25.2 Support of non-profit housing providers; and 38.3 RFP for housing for lower income households. (See the Housing Commission Agenda Report and Draft Minutes in Attachment 7.) The discussion with the Housing Commission included questions about counting the non-rent-restricted units on the two BRE sites and the need to zone additional acreage at 30 units per acre (which is reflected in the staff recommendation in this report), a question about the completion of the Growth Management Program review, a request to make the language in Policy 22 stronger (which is reflected in Attachment 8), the consensus of the Housing Commission that all HCD comments should be addressed and that stronger language be used regarding how the City intends to implement the programs, and a request that specific percentages be included as targets for the provision of Extremely Low Income Households (a specific quantified objective has been included for this category on p. 4-5 of Attachment 8). CITY COUNCIL-PLANNING COMMISSION JOINT WORKSHOP A Joint Workshop of the City Council and Planning Commission was held on December 6, 2011, to discuss the Housing Element Update and specifically the selection of sites to move forward for rezoning, Specific Plan Amendments and General Plan Amendments. Page 3 of 12