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Mr. Rasmussen stated that available on line on the City's website are documents that the Task Force has developed over the past six months, including an extensive Preliminary Background Report on the site and the planning issues that impact it, Opportunities and Constraints Report, Existing Transportation Conditions Assessment Report, and a series of four Economic Market Assessments that track the different alternatives as they have evolved in order to make sure that the Task Force's proposal is going to be within the ballpark of something that can be built, but without overbuilding. He added that an Environmental Conditions Report that talks about existing conditions has also been prepared, which is about one third of an Environmental Impact Report. Mr. Rasmussen then referred back to Ms. Stern to present information on housing and housing numbers. Chair Blank stated that he is very interested in the campus office designation located in the APA and asked Mr. Rasmussen if he has any thoughts with respect to what would specifically be there, such as if the thought is to make them single story. Mr. Rasmussen replied that he will discuss that when he presents the plans. Ms. Stern stated that housing and how much housing should be in East Pleasanton has become a very central part of the discussion at the Task Force level, the understanding of which would be helpful as the City looks at planning for at least the next two housing cycles. She noted that the City is just about to start its new Housing Element Update for the period 2014 to 2022 and the following period that extends to 2030. She added that it is reasonable to think of a long-range plan that can look at taking a share of housing, especially since East Pleasanton is the largest vacant land within the City and is going to play a vital role in satisfying the City's housing needs. She indicated that broadly, the question is how much of the City's housing needs should be met in east Pleasanton; and then more specifically, how much of that multi-family and lower-density needs should be met there. Ms. Stern stated that the City's immediate draft housing numbers, which has not yet been adopted by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) but is pretty close, is about 2,000 units all together. She noted that for its purposes to try and satisfy the very-low-income and low-income categories, the City is really looking at a housing density of 30 units per acre or more. She continued that there are also the moderate income and above-moderate-income categories, which are coming up next. Ms. Stern then presented a map of what parcels within the City were included in the last Housing Element Update which, at that point, did not have current development proposals and a number of which are now off of that inventory. She noted that several of these sites that now have approved plans do not count in the inventory; therefore, new sites will have to be identified when the Housing Element is updated once more. She recalled, for those in the Commission who were involved in the last Housing Element Update process, that it took months to arrive at re-zoning these sites, starting off with about 35 sites, most of which were dropped off the map for various reasons. EXCERPT: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 22, 2013 Page 3 of 30