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Ms. Stern explained that the second column represents the City's RHNA allocation for the 2014 -2022 Planning Period, which adds up to just over 2,000 with about 1,100 of those units in what they term in income levels as Very-Low- and Low- Income, and what the City looks at in terms of density levels. She continued that what the State has allowed the City to do is to indicate where it plans for housing or to zone for housing within a particular density level and then allocate that to a particular income level that the State provides. She indicated that what the City is looking at are 30 units plus per acre that Mr. Rasmussen was pointing out in those smaller areas of multi - family residential, and that is what the City can allocate for its Very-Low- and Low - Income residential; the Moderate - Income households have to have a zoning of around 23 units per acre, and the Above - Moderate - Income would be any kind of lower density than the Moderate - Income. Ms. Stern continued that what will be subtracted from those numbers is what the City has in terms of its current vacant land inventory. She noted that this is a bit of a moving target because as projects are approved, those sites will drop off of this list, so the numbers could potentially be smaller as the City move through and will need to find more sites at a later date. She indicated that the numbers currently add up to about 1,261 units, and then the City will need to look at that within the individual categories. Ms. Stern stated that if the City were just looking at this RHNA planning period coming up, it would be in pretty good shape for High Density, but it would need to find over 400 units for its Moderate - Income stack of units and almost 300 units for Above - Moderate. She noted that when staff went to the City Council the last time, staff talked about this idea of looking forward for this housing period and for the next housing period that extends up to 2030, and there seemed to be the idea that this was a long -range plan and that the East Pleasanton area should really be looking at what could be accommodated in the next two housing cycles. Ms. Stern explained that bearing that in mind and then making an assumption as to what the City's next RHNA numbers will look as shown in the sixth column, the number of units that the City needs to plan for adds up to over 2,800 and includes over 1,200 of the higher density of 30 units plus per acre and about 800 of the Moderate - Income or the 23- units - per -acre category. Commissioner O'Connor inquired, for clarification, that the 2,800 units does not include the East Pleasanton numbers. Ms. Stern replied that was correct. Commissioner O'Connor further inquired if everything that the City has already zoned for is already included in that number, even if the projects have not yet been approved. Ms. Stern said yes and pointed to the third column as the existing inventory. She noted that those numbers include everything that has already been zoned. She further noted that this number was bigger a year and a half ago, and then the Auf der Maur and the PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 25, 2013 Page 25 of 45