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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 2, Goals, Policies and Programs). PLANNING COMMISSION DISCUSSION The discussion at the Planning Commission hearing was limited to the sites being considered for rezoning. The Planning Commission Staff Report (without attachments) and excerpt of minutes are included in Attachment 5. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Housing Element is a policy document that consists of goals, policies and programs to guide the City and private and non-profit developers in providing housing for existing and future residents, and to address the housing needs of all economic segments of the community. The Draft Housing Element retains many of the programs included in the 2003 Housing Element with adjustments and refinements where necessary. The Goals, Policies and Programs also address legislative mandates enacted since the 2003 Housing Element (related to the provision of emergency shelters, transitional and supportive housing, and housing for extremely low income persons and farmworkers), as well as provisions included in the Settlement Agreement in the matter of Urban Habitat Program v. City of Pleasanton as they relate to addressing special needs housing, housing for large families, facilitating development of housing by a non-profit developer and presenting an annual report regarding housing to the City Council. HCD Review HCD's letter and appendix of October 14, 2011 (Attachment 4), is an exhaustive analysis from the State's perspective of the adequacy of the City's Draft Housing Element. It is organized around the major requirements of Housing Element law, as follows: • Housing Needs, Resources and Constraints; • Quantified Objectives; • Housing Programs; and • Consistency with the General Plan HCD's comments range from requests for additional information documenting housing need for extremely low income households and ability to pay for housing, to requests for additional analysis related to the constraints to housing imposed by land use controls, and the feasibility and capacity for residential development on some of the sites selected for rezoning. Staff has addressed these comments in the Background report and the Goals, Policies and Programs. Changes to the version sent to HCD in August 2011 are shown in redline in those documents. In addition, as the rezoning for nine sites to allow Page 3 of 6