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selected for rezoning. A table showing HCD's comments and staffs draft responses is included as Attachment 9, and Attachment 10 includes several inserts into the Background document and amendments to the Goal, Policies and Programs (Attachment 8). These are the same documents as provided to the Planning Commission on December 14, 2011. Staff is in the process of preparing final edits to the draft Housing Element and will present a revised document incorporating all the inserts and including the newly rezoned sites in the City's housing inventory when the City Council considers the Housing Element for adoption in early February 2012. SITES AND PROPOSED LAND USE CHANGES A large part of the discussion during the Housing Element update has been related to the appropriate location, size and density of sites needed to accommodate the City's remaining share of the regional housing need. Information on the 17 sites which were included in the Draft Housing Element can be found in Attachment 19 (Table) and Attachment 20 (Map). More recently, staff has recalculated the remaining need, based on counting only the income-restricted units on the two BRE projects currently under review by the City in Hacienda Business Park. This recalculation showed that the City's need for housing sites for moderate income households has been met, and the remaining need is for 70 acres of land to be designated with a minimum residential density of 30 units per acre, or 2,088 units. Table 1 below shows staff's recommendation for meeting this remaining need. The list of sites represents a small surplus of units over the 2,088 required. Staff believes the surplus is appropriate given that HCD could possibly reject one of the sites in its review of the adopted Housing Element. Further, the City would get credit for any additional units in the next Housing Element planning period. The City Council may, of course, adopt a list including fewer units. Attachment 21 shows a map of the recommended potential housing sites. At the December 6 Joint Workshop, it was suggested that additional density be accommodated on TOD sites such as the Stoneridge Shopping Center, which is proposed to accommodate 400 units at a minimum of 40 units per acre, and Carr- America which was proposed at 30 units per acre. Subsequent discussion with the representative of these sites indicates that the Simon Group (Stoneridge Mall) is not willing to endorse a higher minimum density; however, Carr-America will commit to a minimum density of 35 units per acre, increasing the housing on that site from 252 to 294 housing units. This increase on the CarrAmerica site is reflected in Table 1, below. Two Council members also expressed a concern that 345 units was too many units for the Auf der Maur site, and that the high density residential portion of that site should be reduced to 10 acres from 11.5. As previously noted, this list represents a geographic distribution of properties throughout the City that eliminates any concentration of new multifamily residential development in any one neighborhood or area of Pleasanton. The sites in Table 1 are located around the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station and Stoneridge Shopping Center area, the Hacienda Park area, and in south and east Pleasanton, with no one area having a disproportionate amount of potential new multifamily sites. Page 9 of 12