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constructed could be utilized in the satellite inventory. She noted that in 2012, the Workday property was already entitled so it was not included in the previous Housing Element; by today's standards, however, it would have been included. Commissioner Allen stated that there were some statistics about how few residents work in Pleasanton, something like 11 percent or 13 percent. She inquired how, as more jobs and more housing are added, a better match between jobs and housing can be created so that the percentage of workers who choose to live in Pleasanton can be bumped up to a higher percentage. She also inquired if the City has any data on why it is just 11 percent and how that compares with other cities. She further inquired if staff knows what kinds of jobs the City needs, or what kind of housing is needed, for example, whether it is providing more low- income housing or higher- income housing that would be a better match to jobs. Mr. Dolan replied that it is very difficult to address that issue because people are making individual career choices: where they live with respect to their job is one of the factors, but there are many, many other factors, such as salary and school choices and other things like that, depending on what their careers are. He indicated that the City does have some statistics, and it is 15 percent of Pleasanton residents work in Pleasanton, and that is a pretty good number because out of all the cities that are in the survey, Pleasanton actually has the highest percentage. Mr. Dolan stated that this leads to a greater discussion of jobs /housing balance, and this is really a theoretical concept because even if the City had the exact number of homes it needs and the right jobs per houses, there is no guarantee that everyone is going to live in Pleasanton and work here. He added that he does not know if anybody has ever worked out the right model to explore it as, at the end, it just becomes kind of useless because of all those individual choices that people make. He indicated that the City could implement twice as many policies and throw twice as much money at its housing problem, and it still would not have anywhere near enough affordable housing. He noted that what the Housing Element does is concentrate on housing at the level affordable to more people with lower incomes. Chair O'Connor stated that part of the argument in the lawsuit on the City's housing cap was where the State took the position that the City needed to add more housing because of the jobs /housing imbalance. Referring to Mr. Dolan's comment that this is not just Pleasanton, he noted that in every City, it seems like people are moving out to work in any city; they do not put out resumes only in their own cities; they go everywhere. Mr. Dolan clarified that the jobs /housing imbalance theme of the litigation was not purely a housing issue; it was actually related to environmental concerns in that the City was adding jobs and not houses anticipated in its General Plan, which was leading to greater vehicle miles traveled and more greenhouse gases that had not been adequately analyzed in the EIR. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 25, 2014 Page 7 of 29