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November 16, 2021 Ms. Ellen Clark Director of Community Development City of Pleasanton 123 Main Street Pleasanton, Ca 94566 RE: P21-0751, 2023-2031 (6t' Cycle) Housing Element Update Dear Ellen, SteelWave submits this letter to reiterate its desire for the USL Pleasanton Lakes L.P. parcels (the USL Parcels) to be included in the City of Pleasanton's (City) 6th Cycle Housing Element Update (HE Update). To prepare the City's preliminary list of housing development sites for inclusion in the HE Update, City Planning Staff conducted extensive outreach efforts with property owners in the area, asking owners to submit a Statement of Interest requesting inclusion of their sites in the HE Update. As you are aware, Planning Staff did not include SteelWave in those outreach efforts. After we discovered SteelWave's exclusion from the HE Update site selection process, we immediately submitted a Statement of Interest. However, because we did not learn of the City's site selection process until several weeks after the City's deadline for Statement of Interest submission, our late submission did not allow City Planning Staff adequate time to evaluate the submittal in necessary detail. For that reason, and recognizing the Planning Commission's interest in the USL Parcels, I have prepared this letter to assist Staff's further consideration of the USL Parcels for inclusion in the HE Update. Below, we comment on City Planning Staff's scoring of the USL Parcels under several of the City's site selection criteria and highlight several benefits of developing the USL Parcels for residential uses. We maintain our commitment to the City of Pleasanton and continue to believe our site is an ideal location to provide residential housing for both the current and future residents of Pleasanton. Scoring of the USL Parcels under the City's Approved Site Selection Criteria 1a) Sites intended to accommodate housing at density of 30 DUA or more. The site, or portion of the site to be rezoned, is larger than 0.5 acres in size, and less than 10 acres in size. USL proposes an 8 acre of site within the City of Pleasanton to be rezoned to 30 DUA. Recommended Score: 1 1c) The site is an infill site. Now that the former use has been closed, the USL Parcels proposed for development consist largely of flat, unimproved and underutilized land with no significant biological resources. The USL Parcels as also located east of the Ponderosa Ironwood Estates and the City of Pleasanton Operations Service Facility Center, and near the Pleasanton Garbage Facility, and development 101 California Street, Suite 800, San Francisco CA 94111 1 PH 650-571-2200 1 WEB SteelWaveLLC corn