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2. How much of the City's future Regional Housing Needs Allocation should be accommodated in the East Pleasanton Specific Plan area? 3. What should be the mix of single - family vs. multi - family housing? Commissioner Olson stated that he thinks the Commission ought to stick with balance and try to maintain a similar mix as what the rest of the City has. He noted that looking at that relative to the UGB, he is reminded that for years the City had a housing cap and ended up having to do away with that. He further noted that it the City keeps a tight boundary, it will be forced to end up violating the current mix the City has. Chair Blank agreed with Commission Olson. He stated that his view is that the Commission should not think about this as how much the RHNA should be accommodated but rather, start off with getting the 75 /25- percent balance, or push it to 65/35 percent, and whatever that number computes to is the number. He indicated that he would not go below 65 percent and added that as Commission O'Connor pointed out, he does not know how many times, when the Commission was doing that initial housing sites map, people with vested interests with building low- income housing came up in front of the Commission saying, "Do not make this different; do not put it all there; you will be making a huge mistake." He stated that he would rather say, "Let us make it just like the rest of Pleasanton, and whatever numbers drive out of that, those are the numbers. If we have to go elsewhere to find the rest of the numbers, than we go elsewhere to find the rest of the numbers, and that is fine." Commission Olson agreed. Commissioner Posson stated that he was thinking that while the rest of the City is currently at about a 75 /25- percent split, that could change in the future if the City finds more space within the rest of the City to accommodate any new RHNA numbers the City may have. He indicated that he does not know what the maximum would be, and it would be more problematic, as Mr. Dolan mentioned, to come up with a number today if we went with 25/75 percent today. He questioned whether the City would be able to come back to the East side and start shifting that around in the future. He added that if the City is going to plan it, he would rather plan the East side and not have to come back and touch it. He noted that he would be willing to go with a little more high- density, but he certainly thinks that 50/50 percent is not the right mix; 65 percent would be about where he would want to be on single - family and no more than 35 percent on high- density. He added that he could go less than that for high- density, but he would target it at 35 percent. He stated that again, he does not know about the UGB and whether that block needed to be developed in order to fund the road, and the reason he was looking at it is if the City did not find the room. Commissioner Olson commented that Commissioner Posson stated it very eloquently. He indicated that his sense is that the mix should be consistent with other areas of the City, and the City should look at the proportional amount to meet the RHNA demands for this development as well as across the entire City. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 22, 2013 Page 24 of 41