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Chair Ritter: Good point. e. Matters for Commission's Information No discussion was held or action taken. f. Adoption of Planning Commission Schedule of Meeting Dates for 2017 Commissioner Allen: I do have just a question either for this meeting or the next one and that is, do we have some follow -up information about that Bay Area forecast which has implications potentially for what our RHNA expectation might be in 2022 indirectly? Commissioner O'Connor: Doesn't it go out to 2040? Commissioner Allen: Right, but then if you back in, and I know staff is working with the Council and others to validate some of the assumptions. Beaudin: I'll try and keep it brief. We do plan to agendize a visit from ABAG and /or MTC staff early in the New Year and it would be a presentation to the City Council on the topic. We worked with ABAG staff pretty extensively. Plan Bay Area is the plan ABAG is charged with and it's the Transportation, Land Use and Housing Plan. You mentioned "pyramid," most of the planners talk about it like a 3- legged stool; to be able to sit on it, you need all three pieces working, and it is the Sustainable Community Strategy, so it incorporates both the GHG requirements, transportation related things, as well as land use. Plan Bay Area takes housing components and transportation components. We were not happy with the model that was done for Plan Bay Area for a number of months and the rate of growth that was being projected, particularly for the residential side of Pleasanton was at rates that were inconsistent with our growth management ordinance but also inconsistent with prior planning efforts, whether it was a regional plan or per the City's Housing Element. We stated our concerns and wanted to make sure our issues were clarified, or at least our questions regarding the methodology were clarified. We still don't have a better understanding about our methodology but we're pleased with the numbers. They came down to below our current growth management allocation for residential which we considered a win. So we backed off on our letter opposing the numbers at the Council meeting. So Plan Bay Area, while it's all part of the regional planning effort doesn't necessarily direct or is not indicative of our next housing numbers. There are a couple of other regional processes and state level processes. The housing numbers come from the state and so we expect to do another round of Plan Bay Area before we do our next Housing Element and we get our next RHNA allocation. This is an interesting middle step that we've been part of and we got a good outcome from a Pleasanton perspective, but we'll be doing it all again prior to our next RHNA allocation. Chair Ritter: Was it a good revised outcome? PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 40 of 49