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Beaudin: Yes, very significantly revised in terms of the allocation. We're talking about almost a 90 unit per year change over City -wide. So we went from above our existing growth management ordinance allocation to below. Commissioner Allen: So do you have the new numbers or what the new forecast would be? Beaudin: We do. The number that we got is in the neighborhood of 178 units per year, on an annualized basis for the next 30 years. Our existing growth management is based on our RHNA cycle and it's at 235. That takes us to 2023 and so obviously Plan Bay Area goes beyond, and like I said, they update more regularly than we will with growth management and RHNA with this plan, but this was a good outcome for us on the residential side. Commissioner Allen: Good work working that. Beaudin: Thank you. Commissioner Balch: Can I also just ask, as part of their process, do they kind of do an evaluation of past plans versus reality. Particularly, I'll just mention on the traffic element? Beaudin: So the methodology is challenging to understand and it's not just Pleasanton that saying that out loud. There's the environment, economy of people, housing and transportation, earthquake, drought and flooding are all the criteria they take into account when they're doing these models, so there's a lot of environmental factors. There are a lot of people related factors, and so when we have the ABAG and MTC staff here, we'll ask them to talk to us about their methodology but it really is a complicated web that they're operating with in terms of local plans and how they play regionally with respect to housing, transportation and land use in particular. Commissioner Brown: It's nice that it was lowered. Quick question on ABAG though — do they have any sort of public forums that we as Commissioners could listen as part of the audience? Beaudin: Yes, so this is part of the broader conversation that I'd like to have with the Planning Commission and Council. ABAG is being absorbed by MTC. ABAG currently has a board and the board is made up of elected representatives which make ABAG fairly responsive to local governments. MTC is made up of political appointments and so we are going to be farther from decision - makers. This has been playing out for the last year and a half. A lot of the funding comes through MTC with transportation funding and federal dollars, and the local housing discussion was coming through ABAG, ABAG being the organization of governments for the Bay Area. ABAG represents HCD's will on the housing side, so you have a housing component, a transportation component, and you have little funding and a lot of funding, so the two of them were having a hard time when developing Plan Bay Area and so that came to a head and now ABAG is slowly becoming part of MTC. It's a long answer but they're responsive and responsible to us currently, but it's changing. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, December 14, 2016 Page 41 of 49