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City of Pleasanton, 6th Cycle Housing Element Draft Program Environmental Impact Report, Notice of Availability October 2022 Page 2 of 3 18,029 new residents.1 The proposed plan does not propose or confer any specific development projects. PLANNING PROCESS: The 6th Cycle Housing Element Update process began in March 2021. Throughout the update process, City staff and the professional services team conducted outreach and discussed the proposed plan in several public hearings including with the City Council, Planning Commission, and Housing Commission. The proposed plan was drafted and available for public review from June 7 to July 19, 2022, and during that public review period the City held four public meetings to discuss and receive input on the draft. The City considered comments and integrated changes based on feedback from the community and Commissions and guidance from City Council. The current draft of the proposed plan was submitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) on August 16, 2022. SUMMARY OF IMPACTS: The Draft Program EIR has been prepared according to CEQA requirements to evaluate the potential environmental impacts associated with the implementation of the proposed plan. The Draft Program EIR evaluates significant effects in the following impact areas: Aesthetics; Agriculture and Forestry Resources; Air Quality; Biological Resources; Cultural, Historic, and Tribal Resources; Energy; Geology and Soils; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Hazards and Hazardous Materials; Hydrology and Water Quality; Land Use and Planning; Noise; Population and Housing; Public Services and Recreation; Transportation; Utilities and Service Systems; and Wildfire. The Draft Program EIR also evaluates potential cumulative impacts of the proposed plan and alternatives to the proposed plan, and identifies mitigation measures that would offset, minimize, or otherwise avoid potentially significant environmental impacts. As described in the Draft Program EIR although many of these impacts can be fully mitigated, there are certain impacts that the Draft Program EIR has found to be significant and unavoidable. Potentially significant impacts that can be reduced to less than significant with implementation of mitigation measures include air quality, biological resources, geology and soils, hazardous materials, and noise. Impacts that the Draft Program EIR found would remain significant, even with mitigation, include project- and cumulative vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT). With respect to water supply, the Draft Program EIR found a significant and unavoidable project- and cumulative impact and that no mitigation is available. As a program-level analysis, the Draft Program EIR considers the broad environmental effects of the proposed plan. The analysis in the Draft Program EIR does not examine the site-specific effects of individual projects that may occur in the future. REVIEW PERIOD: This Draft Program EIR will be available for public comment from October 20 to December 5, 2022. All comments received or postmarked by December 5, 2022, will be accepted. Comments on the Draft Program EIR and any comments should be directed via email or in writing to: 1 The proposed plan assumes an increased density at the Dublin-Pleasanton BART station property, and the Draft Program EIR incorporates analysis of an incremental increase in allowable residential units (306 units).