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Commissioner Balch: That's potentially the most forward credit you could go <br />Beaudin: You'll be rezoning for properties as part of planning for the next RHNA cycle <br />and you may be reviewing a project that will stumble into the next RHNA cycle. But <br />again, we're working with the General Plan, and when working with the General Plan all <br />of the elements are equal. We're trying to balance the objectives of the various policies <br />and commitments we've made as part of those policy documents so it's not usually the <br />mark that you try and set the bar at. <br />Commissioner Brown: Can I clarify something Gerry? So, in this instance where the <br />zoning is inconsistent with the General Plan and you said the General Plan trumps, is <br />RHNA tied to the General Plan reallocation of something to residential because in the <br />General Plan it's not residential. Or, is it tied to zoning which it is residential? <br />Beaudin: Neither. We don't need this site for RHNA purposes. We've already rezoned <br />enough of other properties in town to meet our RHNA. So what I would say in this <br />particular case is that the General Plan Amendment is needed to facilitate the <br />residential project. If we leave it as is, whoever comes next is going to have to bend one <br />way or the other. They're going to have to want to amend the General Plan to have to <br />go towards a residential project that's consistent with the zoning or they may have to <br />amend the zoning to get a project that's consistent with the General Plan if they wanted <br />to come in with a larger private school or something like that. <br />Commissioner Brown: I get the application, so I'll try a different question. If we were in a <br />RHNA cycle right now and we were to agree to amend the General Plan to allow this <br />project, would it count toward RHNA allocation or not? Because the zoning wouldn't be <br />changing, but the General Plan would change. <br />Commissioner Balch: If we had a need to rezone. <br />Beaudin: Thank you, I think that helps me. If we reset the clock, so if it's 2022, and we <br />were looking at this site, it would potentially be evaluated by the City Council, by the <br />Planning Commission, by the community and it could be counted toward RHNA. We <br />may decide to upzone this site or leave it as it is and we would try and count it as an <br />opportunity site. <br />Chair Ritter: ... which would go from medium density to high density? <br />Beaudin: It could but it doesn't have to. <br />Chair Ritter: And this has already been through one RHNA cycle when we decided not <br />to make it high density; not to change it at all. <br />Beaudin: We decided not to evaluate it as an opportunity site. <br />Chair Ritter: Right, at the last RHNA cycle. <br />Beaudin: Correct. <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 17 of 58 <br />