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b. PGPA-17 and P11-0904 through P11-0937, City of Pleasanton Recommend approval to the City Council of: (1) the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report documents for the General Plan Housing Element and Climate Action Plan; (2) the Draft Housing Element of the General Plan; and (3) General Plan amendments (GPA), Specific Plan amendments (SPA) and/or rezonings of 17 sites to allow multi-family or single-family residential development or mixed-use (including multi-family residential) development. Janice Stern presented the staff report Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) consists of the Draft Housing Element, the potential rezoning and redesignation of up to 17 sites to accommodate additional multi-family residential development, and the Draft Climate Action Plan. She explained that the Draft SEIR augments the EIR prepared for the 2005-2025 General Plan, and the residential development generally replaces commercial development, resulting in fewer impacts. Ms. Stern briefly described the different environmental topics aesthetics, air quality, biological and cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, geology and soils, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology, land use and planning, noise, population and housing, public services and utilities, recreation, and transportation and traffic and the selected mitigation measures, which include maintaining the view corridor of the ridge; dust control measures during construction; preparation of Health Risk Assessments and indoor air quality improvements, if necessary; pre-construction surveys on birds, bats, and burrowing owls; protection of creeks and riparian vegetation; archaeological monitoring; Phase 1 environmental assessment; limitation on hours of construction; noise mitigation measures; and payment of impact fees. Ms. Stern noted that development facilitated by the General Plan Amendments and the rezonings has the potential to result in two significant and unavoidable impacts: It may adversely change the significance of historic resources on Sites 6 and 21; and It may adversely impact the regional roadway network: First Street between Vineyard Avenue and Stanley Boulevard, and Hopyard Road between Owens Drive and I-580. Ms. Stern indicated that comments on the Draft SEIR include those received at the public hearing on October 26, 2011, and written comments received from ten agencies, Pleasanton residents, and site property owners. She added that staff-initiated clarifications were also made. She then noted the changes made to the Draft SEIR, as follows: The Water Supply Analysis was updated to include maximum development scenarios; The project description and covered land use changes were clarified; Mitigation for sites with potential air quality impacts was clarified; Sites potentially exposed to airport noise were corrected; PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2011 Page 3 of 22