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housing need. This standard applies to all California cities. In the case of the San Francisco Bay Area, the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), working in cooperation with the State Department of Finance and the Association of Bay Area Governments (AI3AG), determine the region's housing need. Once the number of needed housing units is determined, ABAG allocates that need, for all income groups, amongst the region's jurisdictions, including Pleasanton. The process of determining the number of regional housing units by the HCD and the allocation of those units to local agencies is the RI-INA. Addressing the RHNA is the primary focus of the City's Housing Element Update, which is nearing completion. A summary of the area's current (2007-2014) RHNA is as follows: 2007 - 2014 REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS ALLOCATION RHNA ALLOCATIONS Household Income Categories Pleasanton Alameda Co. ABAC Re:ion Very Low Income(50%AMI) 1,076 10,017 48,840 Low Income(80%AMI) 728 7,616 35,102 Moderate Income(120%AMI) 720 9,078 41,316 Above Moderate Income 753 18,226 89,242 TOTAL 3,277 44,937 214,500 Compliance with RHNA is a State mandate. While the State recognizes a city's ability to establish growth controls to address lack of adequate infrastructure and preserve open space, a city's growth management program cannot create a barrier to achieving RHNA. As a guideline for State compliance, when drafting a growth management programs it is beneficial for a municipality to affirmatively answer the following questions: • Is the program based upon actual and clearly defined environmental or public facility constraints (e.g., limited sewer, water, etc.)? • Does the program achieve the jurisdiction's share of the region's housing needs through adequate rezoning? • Is the City taking all reasonable and available steps to relieve the constraints that made growth limitation necessary? • Does the program provide adequate incentives to encourage the development of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households, consistent with the city's share of the region's housing needs for all income levels? • Does the program also equitably limit industrial and commercial development That may increase the need for housing? • Is a growth limitation program conditioned to expire upon removal of the justifying constraint? LOCAL PARAMETERS Related to the above, and in consideration of bolstering the City's growth management program, the following parameters are available to Pleasanton: Page 3 of 5