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calculation will take into account the actual number of affordable units we have built relative to the number of overall units in the community? Hagen: No. Commissioner Allen: No, it's all about zoning, so this is one of the questions we always have to grapple with as Commissioners, is the project a good project. But second is what the right timing to bring the project forward is? So my understanding in double- checking is whether this makes sense or not almost doesn't matter. The fact of the matter is that it is all about RHNA requiring us to make zoning available and we already have enough zoning available now so we've met our RHNA requirement in this cycle. In 2022, whatever is already built —if these get built before 2022, it doesn't help us with anything. It just helps us say that we built them but it doesn't help us in 2022 to meet any new requirements for providing 1,000 more units. Commissioner Nagler: But doesn't it affect the calculation? Beaudin: Can I jump in? So the housing element process is a planning and zoning exercise to make sure we have the ability in the community to build our RHNA allocation and the ability to build is that we've zoned the land appropriately. The RHNA calculation is complicated, but if you really want to boil it down to a sentence for the sake of simplicity, it is really jobs: housing is how it is looked at. So the breakdown of the type of housing in town is really an important detail but the real driver is the number of employees you have coming to work every day or going to work every day in your community and then that relates to a housing number that we then have to plan for. And we end up with an 8 year Housing Element cycle so in each 8 year cycle here in Pleasanton we had a number just over 2,000 which translates to about 235 units per year which we've taken in our growth management ordinance. I think what's challenging about RHNA and the Housing Element is that there's a planning and zoning process and then there're projects that come through the City outside of what's been planned for in RHNA and that really is what this is. It certainly takes an important site; a site that was considered and was ranked fairly highly in the last cycle and to develop that outside of that RHNA process, it's a different set of benefits. There's meeting RHNA and addressing those State housing obligations and we still get credit for generating affordable housing. It's just that those units are not coming off of the sites that we had preplanned in our Housing Element process. So it's really a policy decision about how much housing you develop outside of your pre -zoned or zoned property for higher density or for RHNA housing numbers. I'm not sure if that helped clarify things or not, but really it is a discussion in Pleasanton about whether or not we should be rezoning property for residential purposes outside of the RHNA cycle because there's so much discussion in the community about housing. I'll also say that in this particular case, the Sunflower Hill concept is part of the City Council work plan, so when this partnership formed, it gave us something else to think about in terms of this particular residential application and how we look at it from a policy perspective because this component of this project was identified by Council as something we should be trying to accommodate here in the City of Pleasanton. Commissioner Brown: So a clarifying question -on top of page 10 in the staff report it states, "Although the project site was not included in the inventory, any affordable housing units constructed during this RHNA cycle as proposed as part of the project would still be PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 27, 2016 Page 18 of 43