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Pleasanton Housing Element Stakeholder Meetings • Inclusionary (Palmer) 79% -51% • Federal Section 8 Question #3: Opportunities • How can the community improve on and grow existing resources? • What housing types and services should we be looking to add? • Are there specific policies or actions that the city should consider including in the Housing Element to improve access and /or opportunities? Responses: • Provide more age in place units /modifications /accessible units • Look at surplus land the city or county owns and see if it can be donated for special housing uses like we've discussed today. • Appropriately zoned sites for multifamily housing near transit & other amenities • Identifying incentives- such as parking requirement reductions- to improve feasibility of affordable housing development • Analyze City use of affordable housing funds for mixed income family housing or special needs housing • A stronger commitment to economic integration in housing, continued use of universal design, and increased public transportation which is affordable • More housing to address the homeless and accessibility needs. Housing Accessible to Public Transportation • Greater partnerships with city and advocates • Assess In lieu and impact fees to verify they are correctly set and provide a formula schedule to update regularly • Provide increased marketing of existing programs • Encourage more affordability at 5o% AMI • Prioritize funding • Increase the lower income housing fees to reflect the true cost of providing affordable housing. • Reset fees and adopt policies to encourage property owners of RHNA rezoned properties to dedicate land in lieu of housing fees (which should be set at a level that makes this advantageous) • All other development should pay the increased fees. • Give incentives to property owners to partner with non -profits • All land zoned 3o Units /acre should be partially (at least 4o %) as non profit Other Comments and Ideas Following the questions the group discussed the sense of pride that a number of advocates/stakeholders at the table have in the community of Pleasanton and how they are committed to partnering together to ensure that the current and future needs of the residents in the community are addressed. 3