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MEMORANDUM Date: November 9, 2021 To: Planning Commission From: Ellen Clark, Director of Community Development Subject: November 10, 2021, Meeting – Agenda Item 5 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update Draft Sites Inventory – SteelWave Site Just prior to publication of the agenda report for Item 5, staff received a request by SteelWave, on behalf of USL Pleasanton Lakes L.P. (“USL”) for consideration of several properties it owns within the East Pleasanton Specific Plan area as housing sites for purposes of the Housing Element update. Given the timing of the submittal, staff was not able to incorporate the site into the list of sites and related analysis included in the originally published agenda report. With this memorandum, staff is providing an analysis of the SteelWave site (as Site #28) as proposed by USL, including the outcomes of the sites’ ranking and scoring based on the approved sites selection criteria, as well as staff’s initial assessment of the site based on factors such as likelihood/suitability for development, geographic distribution, and “fit” with community input to date on preferred types and locations for housing development. USL’s transmittal included density ranges and a site plan shown in this memorandum as Table 1 and Figure 1, respectively; a follow-up letter dated November 8, 2021 is included in Attachment 1 of this memorandum, for reference. As shown, the owner has indicated they would like three parcels to be considered for future development of housing, as follows: • Two parcels located outside of the City limits, in unincorporated Alameda County. The two parcels combined are approximately 118 acres in size. A part of one of the parcels is located outside Pleasanton’s Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) and is proposed as a 10.82- acre park. The remainder of the area, approximately 107.54 acres in size, is within the UGB, and proposed for 1,015 units, at densities ranging between 8 and 15 dwelling units per acre (du/ac). • One parcel located within City limits, but outside of the UGB, located just east to the property recently acquired by Amazon for a proposed distribution facility. This 15.6 acre area is proposed to include both single family (76 units at an average density of 10 du/ac) and high-density (240 affordable units at average density of 30 du/ac) housing, for a total of 316 units.