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RHNA numbers. He stated that staff's job is to get the Housing Element certified, and he is not comfortable at this time recommending that there be any reduction because it would be too tight. He noted that the numbers are pretty close, and there is a little bit of cushion should the Council ultimately decide to reduce it. Mr. Dolan stated that the Commission would probably hear the most about the CM Capital site, as was the case in its previous meetings and in some of the public outreach meetings. He noted that there has clearly been a request by the Parkside neighbors, who were there through the approval and the evolution of the Summerhill project and ultimately got some things. He explained that the neighbors want staff and the Commission to take a really serious look at the second half of that property which is right next door and has a similar relationship to that neighborhood. He indicated that when this issue was raised, staff had some dialogue with the owners, and the last official word from the owners is that they are very interested in maintaining their current zoning and were urging the Council ultimately to not change the designation they have. He added that since that time though, staff has been made aware that there has been some dialogue among the owners of the property, which was facilitated by James Paxson of Hacienda Business Park. He noted that the City has not been involved in that dialogue and that the Commission may be hearing more tonight about how that conversation has gone. Mr. Dolan stated that one of the things that staff has heard in some of the public outreach is that the City is just approving way too much development and has gone overboard, and the City really needs to get the reins on it. He then displayed the Entitled Housing Units per Year chart to provide data as a reference point of all the housing units that have been approved every year since 2003. He noted that it was pretty slow back in 2003 with 12 units approved; also 12 units in 2004; 22 units in 2005; then 79 units in 2006; 9 units in 2007; 130 units in 2008; and 19 units in 2009. He further noted that although the Growth Management Ordinance allowed 350 units per year, the City was not getting a lot of development proposals or approved. He continued that this resulted in the City not having any housing inventory or any land zoned for residential that could be developed, and that was what the lawsuit was all about. He pointed out that once the City was basically called for that and was forced to rezone, development started to pick up, there was clearly a demand for it. He noted that in 2010, 673 units were approved, although that was not really a result of the rezoning but was the Continuing Life Communities (CLC) senior project approved at Staples Ranch. He indicated that it was not something that generated a huge amount of opposition because the driving patterns were a lot less, and there was no impact on schools, the two major issues associated with growth that people typically latch onto. Mr. Dolan stated that 2011 was the heart of the recession, and the number of units was back down to 42. He noted that in 2012, when basically the lawsuit opinion came out and made its way through the settlement talks, the two BRE projects across from BART were approved; that makes up the vast majority of what happened in 2012. He continued that 2013 and 2014 was when the City really started to get these projects and approved 1,148 units in 2013 and an additional 247 units in 2014. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 13, 2014 Page 14 of 32