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and Appendices A and B. She indicated that all information received tonight, together with the input from the Housing Commission last week, will be considered by staff and the housing consultants for the final draft, which will be presented at a Community Workshop on July 16`h, after which it will be brought back to the Planning Commission in late August and to the City Council in September for authorization to submit to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). She added that the HCD would have 60 days to review the Housing Element, and its comments will be incorporated in the final Housing Element document, which will then come before the Planning Commission and City Council in December for authorization to submit for HCD certification in January. Commissioner Balch stated that a technical change should be made on page 15 of the Background Report, where the verbiage of the text does not align with the numbers on Table 3 Population Change in Alameda County, 2000 -2010. He noted that the text incorrectly references the growth percentages of Emeryville and Fremont listed on the Table. He pointed out that it looks like the cities, Dublin and Emeryville, were initially correct before they were red - lined. Commissioner Balch stated that he also noticed that "East Pleasanton Specific Plan" is heavily mentioned within the Housing Element document. He added that the East Pleasanton Specific Plan Task Force is also pointing in a variety of directions. He indicated that this is his first time to work on the Housing Element document and wanted to understand if the East Pleasanton Specific Plan process would in any way constrain the content of the Housing Element. Ms. Wallis explained that the Housing Element has a Goal and Policy that encourages a wide variety of housing within the East Pleasanton Specific Plan area, but nothing in the Housing Element document is contingent upon the approval of the East Pleasanton Specific Plan. She indicated that the Housing Element stands on its own and that the East Pleasanton Specific Plan Task Force will hopefully look at the Housing Element Goals and Policies when it considers how the Specific Plan project is designed. Commissioner Balch indicated that he also noticed throughout the Housing Element that language regarding the developmentally disabled or challenged in some regard is being added in, at least in the red -line version, and he was wondering if that was going to be more consistently applied. He added that he also read Ms. Becky Dennis' comments in the packet and wanted to know how staff was working through those. Ms. Wallis explained that previous to 2012, a lot of the verbiage in the Housing Element simply indicated those "with disabilities," and following the City's incorporation in 2012 of this new State law into the Housing Element, the then Housing and Planning Commissions wanted to strengthen some of the language in certain areas, and those areas were changed to include those with developmental disabilities. She noted that this is the reason it does not appear consistent throughout the document, although the term "with disabilities" in other areas remains a catch -all that captures all the disabilities. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 25, 2014 Page 4 of 29