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Commissioner Ritter stated that it might be more appropriate then to modify the wording and say "rental entity" or "rental housing." He then referred to the numbers on Table 12, Households by Tenure on page 26 of the Background Report that shows "Renters Occupied" as 27 percent in 2000 and 29 percent in 2010. He noted that the City is nowhere near that 50 percent in Policy 7 it is trying to get to, which makes him wonder if basically that is why the City is having a little bit of a housing shortage issue. He questioned if "50 percent" was a realistic number. Ms. Wallis replied that the City is moving in that direction. She pointed out that nine properties were rezoned within the last two years, and five of them have entitlements. She added that outside of the 92 units at the Pleasanton Gateway project, all the units in those five properties are rental units. She noted that there is a growing rental need right now, and development projects in the City for rental units is actually occurring a lot faster than for single - family homes. Commissioner Ritter stated that based on the numbers, it looks like the need is for condominium rentals or apartment rentals and not necessarily larger, moderate, or workforce housing, and he wanted to ensure that this is being addressed in the Housing Element as far as one of its goals. Referring to Policy 10 and Policy 11, Commissioner Ritter stated that Ms. Dennis mentioned "Projects come forward one at a time, therefore the Council and Commissions can never compare affordability levels between proposals for a particular site." He indicated that he thinks Ms. Dennis has some good points with respect to how this is worded to ensure that the City is comprehensively planning for the provision of affordable units rather than responding to housing demand on a project -by- project basis. Chair O'Connor stated that the only question he has for staff at this time is that Appendix A, the Housing Site Inventory, has some sites or at least one where Workday is going. He noted that it was originally targeted as having so many units and, now it is off the table. He inquired if that is because it was not part of the past housing inventory or was not part of the last Housing Element. Ms. Wallis replied that Appendix B lists all the sites that are currently available and have potential. She noted that as Workday was rezoned to "Office," it is no longer zoned "Residential" and therefore, is no longer on the list. Chair O'Connor indicated that he was looking in the red -lined version, and it was not crossed off. He inquired if that is because it was never there before. Ms. Wallis stated that there has been a policy change since the last Housing Element update. She explained that in the previous Housing Element, only vacant and under - utilized sites were looked at; it did not look at entitled sites. She continued that HCD has determined that a site that is currently entitled but is not occupied or PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 25, 2014 Page 6 of 29