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Policies and programs to facilitate housing production, reflecting a range of housing types, sizes, affordability levels, and tenure, and provide access to housing opportunities that meet the diverse needs of the community, including: • Ensure that new, non-residential development, and market-rate residential development, adequately mitigate the demand it creates for new affordable housing by requiring payment of the Lower-Income Housing Fee. Policy 2.9 • Offer local programs and support regional programs that minimize tenant displacement and help subsidize rents for eligible households. Policy 2. 12 • Expand the effectiveness of the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance including increasing the proposition of inclusionary units required in multi-family projects to be up to 20 percent and identifying a target mix of affordable units (including proportions of very-low, low- and moderate-income units). Program 2. 1 • Regularly evaluate the Lower-Income Housing Fee to ensure it remains commensurate with the needs generated by the development, is established at a level proportionate with the actual cost to provide new housing, and is in conformance with state law while ensuring that Pleasanton remains locally and regionally competitive in attracting new commercial investment. Program 2.2 • Increase support access to rental housing for lower-income households including studying the development of an enhanced local rental assistance program for the workforce that would help offset the costs of market-rate rents. Program 2.8 • Analyze and explore State programs and partnerships with major employers to acquire existing market-rate housing units or develop new housing units to create moderate or workforce housing. Program 2.11 Policies and programs to conserve and improve the existing housing stock, including: • Define single-family homes (or equivalent) to include manufactured homes on a foundation as a conventional single-family home. Program 3. 1 • Work cooperatively with the owners of existing mobile home parks to stabilize rents through implementation of existing agreements and ensure mobile home parks conversion only occurs in accordance with Government Code §65863.7. Program 3.2 Programs and policies to reduce governmental constraints to the development and improvement of housing where feasible, including: • Update and amend existing City design and development guidelines and standards for residential and mixed-use development, to incorporate objective standards. Policy 4.1 • Ensure that adequate infrastructure is available to support future planned residential growth. Policy 4.2 • Update City codes, policies and regulations, or the implementation thereof, as needed to comply with state law and remove governmental constraints to housing production. Policy 4.3 • Develop Objective Design Standards for multi-family and mixed-use development to eliminate subjectivity. Program 4.2 • Continue to develop and update plans to identify and address infrastructure deficiencies including conducting a sewer/wastewater capacity analysis to ensure Page 6 of 18