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some cases (e.g., if the project is within one half mile of public transit) no parking spaces may be required. Pleasanton is included among HCD's list of cities in the State that are eligible for the streamlined development process, based on RHNA performance. In addition, projects and sites must meet a number of specific criteria to be eligible for this streamlined approval process in the City of Pleasanton including that the project must: • be a multi-family development and cannot involve development/redevelopment of a site that has contained tenant-occupied housing within 10 years; • be an "infill" site (located in areas surrounded by development on 75 percent of its borders), and not be located in environmentally sensitive areas; • pay prevailing wages to construction workers; and • restrict at least 50 percent of its units to be affordable to households classified as having low income (e.g. less than 80 percent of the area median income). At this time, it is not clear whether the extent to which developers will elect to participate in the streamlining process; and staff feels it is likely that the relatively stringent list of eligibility requirements, including the requirement to make at least 50 percent of the total units affordable to low-income households, may make many projects financially infeasible. Statewide, since adoption of SB35, only a handful of projects have come forward to take advantage of the streamlining provisions, but more may be proposed in the future. That said, a streamlined process for residential project review is a significant change from past review processes in Pleasanton. Prior to adoption of SB35, all of the potential high-density housing sites were zoned Planned Unit Development (PUD), and subject to review by both the Planning Commission and the City Council for conformance to the development standards and design guidelines adopted specifically for high density projects. If the projects meet these standards and guidelines, or approval of exceptions to these requirements has been granted, the projects are approved. After review of the various eligibility requirements, staff believes the only sites likely to be eligible for the streamlined processing in the short-term, would be the remaining five high density2 housing sites listed within the Housing Element site inventory, and which SB 166 (Residential Density and Affordability) Existing "no net loss" provisions in State law require cities to demonstrate that adequate housing sites remain within the local jurisdictions' inventory prior to "downzoning" sites (re-zoning to a lower density or non-residential zoning district), or approving projects at less density than shown in the adopted Housing Element. 2 These sites include: East Dublin/Pleasanton BART parking lot site (Owens Drive); Roche Site (vacant property at 4300 Hacienda Drive); Kaiser Site (vacant property at 5600 Stoneridge Mall Road);Sheraton/Marriott hotel site near the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station (5990 Stoneridge Mall Road); and Stoneridge Shopping Center Page 3of6