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BACKGROUND On February 13, 2012, the City Council adopted an updated Housing Element. As required by State housing law, the City submitted the adopted Housing Element to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for its review and findings. The agency's May 17, 2012 letter outlined several revisions to the Housing Element that HCD deemed were needed in order to find the element in compliance with State housing law (see Attachment 2). Since that time, City staff has been working with HCD staff to draft language that meets the State housing law requirements and is consistent with Pleasanton's housing goals. The proposed amendments to the Housing Element are included in Attachment 1. As noted in the August 23, 2012 letter from Glen Campora, HCD finds the Housing Element, if adopted with the proposed revisions, will comply with State housing element law. As most of the changes are merely the provision of additional data and analysis to the background report, and the one change to a program is minor, staff considers these amendments to be minor in substance and consistent with the previously adopted Housing Element. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Proposed changes to the 2012 Housing Element are shown in Attachment 1 and consist of a change to Program 9.1 and several additions to the Background information. The amendment to Program 9.1 is as follows (with deletions shown in strikeout and additions underlined): Program 9.1: Conduct a review of the Growth Management Program and amend as necessary to assure 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 City's Growth Management Program is consistent with State law, and that there is a procedure for assuring that there is available infrastructure to serve future approved residential development, and to create a more efficient process for implementing the program. Responsible Agency: City Council Time Period: End of 2012; then annually Funding Source: Housing Division, Planning Division budgets Amendments to the Background information, Potential Governmental Constraints to Housing section, pages 83 through 106 are also proposed and include: • Additional information regarding residential development standards for single family and multifamily residential zoning districts; • Information about development standards and design guidelines for the recently rezoned multifamily residential development (PUD) sites; • Additional information about local processing and permit procedures; • Additional information regarding development fees and fees as a proportion of development costs and sales prices; • Additional information regarding development review procedures; and Page 2 of 3