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• Site 1: Lester: Concerns about hillside grading • Site 2: Stoneridge Shom)ina Center: Concerns with added congestion to an already busy area. • Site 3: PUSD Donlon: Concern with additional traffic directly adjacent to Donlon School which already has school pick-up and drop-off congestion. • Site 10: VallevCare: Concern due to the potential need for this site to accommodate expanded medical/healthcare uses by the hospital in the future. • Site 11: Old Santa Rita: Concern due to loss of space for small, service commercial and light industrial businesses • Site 23: Sunol: Concern due to the large number of units proposed and potential traffic issues • Site 28: Steelwave: Concerns about compatibility issues with nearby industrial development, pollutants from prior uses, and impacts on adjacent residential, as well as implications about traffic and the extension of EI Charro. DISCUSSION Hiah Densitv Sites — Density Ranaes Based on Commission and public comments, staff has increased the recommended density ranges for the three sites (Site 2: Stoneridge Shopping Center, Site 9: Metro 580, and Site 29. Oracle) from 30-60 du/ac to 45-75 du/ac. For the remaining high-density sites, staff is recommending adjusting the densities from 30 du/ac to a range of 30-40 du/ac to allow greater design flexibility. However, for capacity estimates, at this time staff continues to recommend taking a relatively conservative approach in the estimation of zoning capacity for these sites, using the minimum of 30 du/ac. Based on guidance provided by HCD for higher -density housing sites, the inventory needs to reflect a realistic capacity that takes account of aspects like physical constraints, necessary on- site infrastructure and circulation, parking, and development standards like height and setback requirements. A density of 30 du/ac is considered a "safe harbor" assumption for these sites as a starting point for the inventory. Staff will be reaching out to HCD over the coming months for consultation on the initial sites inventory and assumptions, and if opportunities are available to increase capacity assumptions for some of the higher density sites, will fold this into the analysis. Recommendations for Sites List While the ranking is a helpful starting point as to sites likely to offer the best transit access, and access to services, other factors and policy considerations will come into play in the site selection process, and which could re -rank or raise in preference some sites over others based on the scores they received. To assist the Planning Commission in its decision-making of the inventory, staff reviewed all of the sites based on consideration of the initial ranking and scoring, and factors such as property owner support, feasibility of development due to site characteristics and other factors, relative neighborhood impact, and overall community support (or lack of opposition). With consideration of these additional, somewhat more subjective criteria, the following sites appear to be relatively Housing Element Update Planning Commission 11 of 14