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Affordable Housing Projects of 15 units or less, including the proposed project, are exempt from the City's Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance. However, the applicant would be required to pay the City's low- income housing fees, which would be approximately $23,030 for the proposed project. Growth Management The City's Growth Management Program (GMP) allows a total of 235 growth management unit allocations to be issued within a calendar year for new residential units and requires all new residential projects to obtain Growth Management Unit Allocations (GMUAs) for each residential unit to be constructed City Council Ordinance 2112 states that for the current Regional Housing Needs Allocations (RHNA) cycle (5`h Cycle from January 1, 2014 — October 31, 2022), the annual Growth Management unit allocation shall not exceed the number of units required to meet the City's RHNA for the fifth cycle divided by the number of years in that cycle. To date in 2016, a total of 59 GMUAs have been issued. The proposed development would require two GMUAs. If the Council approves the requested GMUAs, a total of 61 GMUAs would be issued to -date this calendar year, below the allocation limit. The Growth Management Agreement for the project is included as Attachment 2. PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION The Planning Commission held a public hearing on March 9, 2016, to review the proposed project. The minutes of this meeting are provided in Attachment 4. The Commissioners modified the conditions to allow for the development of a decomposed granite meandering sidewalk along the Dublin Canyon Road frontage of the site (to reflect the rural character of this stretch of Dublin Canyon Road), and to increase the size of the five of the proposed trees (to more effectively screen views of the proposed development from Dublin Canyon Road). The Commission unanimously recommended the approval of the proposed application to the City Council, with the modified conditions. PUD FINDINGS Please refer to the attached Planning Commission staff report (pages 12 -15 of Attachment 4) for a discussion of the considerations needed to approve the proposed PUD Development Plan. PUBLIC COMMENT & NOTICE Notices regarding the City Council public hearing were mailed to the surrounding property owners and tenants within a 1,000 -foot radius of the project site The location and noticing maps are included in Attachment 6. At the time of report publication, Staff had not received any public comments regarding the Council notice. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT An Initial Study /Negative Declaration was prepared for the previously approved, but now expired, development plan (PUD -44) in 2006. The proposed development is substantially consistent with the previously approved PUD Development Plan, which was analyzed in the Initial Study /Negative Declaration. No new information or changed Page 5 of 6