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HOUSING ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS/ GROWTH MANAGEMENT REVIEW The Housing Element Goals, Policies and Programs include about thirty new programs that will be implemented over the next two years. Two of these programs will have bearing on the impact of future multifamily residential projects. Program 9.8 of the Housing Element Goals, Policies and Programs calls for the preparation of Housing Site Development Standards and Design Guidelines that will guide the development of the nine recently rezoned housing sites (Sites 1 through 9 in Table 1). The standards would create rules for height, massing, setbacks, landscaping, number of parking spaces, open spaces, building types and architecture. The intent is to promote high quality living environments that are compatible with Pleasanton's existing neighborhoods. The City will be hosting two workshops in April and May to discuss the draft document with the community. Since 1978 the City has maintained a Growth Management Ordinance/program designed to provide guidelines for pacing the rate of construction (i.e., issuance of building permits) for approved residential development to achieve a predicable growth rate to alleviate the potential for strain on city resources and infrastructure. Program 9.1 of the recently adopted Housing Element calls for a review, and if necessary, an amendment to the City's Growth Management Ordinance to assure that the rate of residential development is consistent with the City's current and new infrastructure capacities, including roadways, water, sewer and facilities, etc. The objective of this program is to assure that the ordinance is consistent with State law and that there is a procedure for assuring available infrastructure to serve future new development. Program 29.2 also calls for a review of the Growth Management Ordinance to reflect current housing need and infrastructure conditions and to assure that it does not include constraints that would prevent the City from meeting its share of the regional housing need. To address these programs, the City Council formed a subcommittee with councilmembers Thorne and McGovern for the purpose of leading this review effort. The subcommittee has met on a number of occasions and on March 20, 2012 it presented a report (Attachment 2) to the City Council outlining the results of its work to date that includes framing six growth management objectives for consideration and feedback. Fundamental to the objectives outlined in the March 20 report is the potential for establishing a graduated point system that could be used to develop priorities for determining an order for the issuance of building permits. The point system could take into account items such as proposed infrastructure improvements, development design quality, project amenities, sustainability/ green technologies, affordable housing, and overall impacts. Also included as a factor to consider could be the adequacy of school facilities. Based on this system, those projects with the highest number of total points would be eligible for building permits before developments with lower point totals. This system would most likely result in the City, through a biannual growth management report, assessing infrastructure which includes school facilities, conditions and capacity. Page 3 of 5