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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031(6'Cycle)Housing Element Update City of Pleasanton Notice of Preparation This Program EIR conservatively analyzes impacts of the development of all the potential sites for rezoning listed above. However,the City has the ultimate discretion to identify the appropriate opportunity sites to meet project objectives, including adequate sites that would be available to accommodate the RHNA. The proposed rezonings would not alter the Wildland Overlay or the Public Health and Safety Land Use Designations of the potential sites for rezoning that fall within those areas. Project Characteristics Housing Element Update Policies and Programs In addition to the RHNA, the Housing Element Update includes several programs intended to improve the quality of the housing inventory, conserve existing neighborhoods, increase housing affordability, and remove potential governmental and non-governmental constraints to housing for lower-income households and persons with special needs. Based on guidance from the State, constraints to housing production can include concerns such as availability of infrastructure, lengthy processing or permitting timeframes, and costs of construction and other similar factors. Programs in the Housing Element Update would specify actions the City could undertake to overcome such constraints, such as providing streamlined project review for residential developments, completing needed plans for infrastructure and ensuring Capital Improvement and developer funding supports necessary improvements, and providing city grants or other funding to help subsidize production of lower-income housing units. It is not anticipated that these policies or programs would result in physical changes to the environment.Although the Housing Element Update is designed to encourage and facilitate new housing construction, the Housing Element Update does not propose or confer any specific development projects.The Program EIR focuses on policies that could have environmental impacts. General Plan Amendments The Program EIR will address the environmental impacts related to implementation of the proposed Housing Element Update and associated land use and zoning revisions. In accordance with State law, Pleasanton proposes to adopt a General Plan Amendment to update the General Plan's existing Housing Element including designating sites and identifying updated goals, policies, and actions, along with revisions to the General Plan Land Use Element to ensure consistency between it and the Housing Element—i.e., updating the General Plan land use plan to expand the inventory of land available for the development of new housing and making text amendments to ensure density ranges for Mixed Use designated projects are consistent with those described in the Land Use Element. The City would also rezone several of the sites identified in Table 1 as shown in Table 3, sufficient to meet the remaining unmet housing need. Specific Plan and Planned Unit District Development Amendments Amendments to the Hacienda Planned Unit District(PUD) Development Plan and the Vineyard Corridor Avenue Specific Plan may be necessary and will be addressed programmatically in the Program EIR. Exhibit 3 depicts the sites within Specific Plan areas. FirstCarbon Solutions 14 trict HDR High Density Residential District OS Open Space District FirstCarbon Solutions 13 ers the maximum number of units on the potential sites for rezoning,should any of the Housing Element Update policies facilitate the production of ADUs,any additional units over the 93 units would be accounted for within the evaluation because it is unlikely that all of the sites will develop at maximum density. ° The 2015-2023(5'h Cycle)Housing Element assumed 294 units at the property.Pursuant to AB 2923,and as evaluated in this Program EIR,the property would have a density of 75 dwelling unit/acre(du/acre),resulting in a total of 593 potential units,or 314 additional units to what was evaluated in the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the City of Pleasanton Housing Element and Climate Action Plan General Plan Amendment and Rezonings. ' Low density includes a density range of 2-7 du/acre Typical housing types include detached single-family units and duplexes. The medium density classes includes both low medium density and medium density.Low medium includes a density range of 8-14 du/acre. Typical housing types include small lot single-family homes,townhomes,and small-scale apartment buildings.Medium density includes a density range of 15-25 du/acre.Typical housing types include attached apartments,condominiums,and townhomes with surface parking. FirstCarbon Solutions 8