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BACKGROUND State Planning arid Zoning law requires each city and county government to regularly update its General Plan Housing Element to address its share of the regional housing need (RHNA). The Regional Housing Need numbers for the San Francisco Bay Area jurisdictions were adopted by the Association of Bay Area Government (ABAG) on July 18, 2013 (Attachment 1). The last Housing Element update was a major undertaking due to significant changes in State housing law since the adoption of the 2003 Housing Element and the need to rezone approximately 70 acres to allow high density multifamily development in order to adequately address our share of the regional housing need. For the 2014-2022 planning cycle, staff has been reviewing the City's existing inventory of housing sites to determine if it is adequate to meet our Regional Housing Needs Assessment. This report describes Pleasanton's RHNA for the 2014-2022 period and compares it to available sites and approved projects. REGIONAL HOUSING NEED FOR 2014-2022 The City's allocation for the 2014-2022 period by income group is as follows: Table 1: City of Pleasanton RHNA for 2014-2022 Very Low Low Moderate Above Moderate Total (0—50% AMI1) A51-80% AMI) (81-120% AMI) (120%+) 716 391 407 553 2,067 The Final RHNP, for all jurisdictions in the nine Bay Area counties is included in Attachment 1. AVAILABLE HOUSING SITES AND PROJECTS ENTITLED PRIOR TO THE START OF THE HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE Housing Element law requires local governments to adequately plan to meet their existing and projected housing needs including their share of the regional housing need. In order to create a plan to meet housing need, State law requires the Housing Element include the following: • A review and evaluation of programs and policies in the previous element, looking at the effectiveness of the element and how the policies and programs could be amended and refined; • An analysis of population and employment trends; • An analysis and documentation of household and housing characteristics; • An inventory of land and an analysis of zoning and available public services; • An analysis of government and non-government constraints and efforts to remove them; ' Area Median Income Page 2 of 7