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public comments at the October 26th Planning Commission meeting as well as written comments from agencies, residents and site property owners, and staff clarifications were made for the Final EIR. Ms. Stern stated that one change made update of a water supply analysis to include maximum development scenarios in order to cover any of the development scenarios reviewed in the EIR. The project description and covered land use changes were also clarified, mitigation for sites with potential air quality impacts was clarified, sites potentially exposed to airport noise were corrected, corrections of statistics and minor word changes in the school impact section which were requested by Pleasanton Unified School District were made, and potential visual impacts on Site 7 were clarified. The Council action on the SFEIR will consist of taking comments from the public regarding the completeness and adequacy of the SFEIR documents, approving the environmental findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations, and certifying the SFEIR, as revised. Ms. Stern noted that the Council will not be acting on the Draft Housing Element but will review how it has evolved since the Element was submitted to HCD by the August 16, 2010 deadline. Staff received comments in a 10-page letter from HCD on October 14, 2010 which staff has been working on to address in order to meet the settlement agreement deadline by February 13, 2012. In addressing HCD's comments, staff provided updates to the Goals, Policies and Programs which were reviewed by the Planning Commission as included in Attachment 8 of the Council packet and are continuing to be edited, as follows: • HCD has asked the City to ensure inclusion of extremely low income groups which has been added; • HCD also wanted to include specific quantified objectives and specific timelines within the programs which has been done; • The City made a commitment to adopt a density bonus ordinance and adopt standards for multi- family housing and added Program 41.9 which is a State requirement for employee housing; • Program 41.10 is a commitment to adopt a reasonable accommodation ordinance to address setbacks outside of the norm for specific ADA requirements; • Program 45.3 relates to a minimum contribution to be made to close funding gaps for affordable housing; • Program 46.1 relates to the work needed to find a district where emergency shelters can be allowed. Community Development Director Dolan gave a presentation regarding the sites and said it is important for the community to remember that when the sites are rezoned, in response to the current Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance, a small percentage of the sites will have income restrictions but the rest will be market rate homes. He provided an example of a two-bedroom apartment unit where rents would range from $1154 to $1846. These tenants may include service workers in the community to teachers, public servants, and parents and children just starting out. Mr. Dolan reported that the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) cycle originally assigned by the State and ABAG continues with the next planning process starting in 2014. Theoretically, the City will have to have another Housing Element prepared by 2014. Staff anticipates receipt of the new RHNA allocations as early as July 2012. He described the process ABAG hosts where cities can comment on proposed methodologies which create the initial and final housing numbers which is anticipated to be completed by May 2013. Councilmember Sullivan questioned the timeline and requirement after adoption of the next Housing Element and also asked Mr. Dolan to define the acronym for RHNA for the benefit of the public. Mr. Dolan said the planning period would begin on July 1, 2014 and this is the date the new Housing Element would be due. However, he believes that because there is coordination with other State laws, City Council Minutes Page 3 of 13 January 4,2012