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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update Executive Summary Draft Program EIR ES-2 FirstCarbon Solutions https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/EIR/3 - Draft/21480022 Sec00-03 Executive Summary.docx Project Description State law dictates that each city and county in California evaluate local housing needs and, as part of the Housing Element, prepare a realistic set of policies and programs to fulfill those needs in conjunction with the local government’s long range General Plan. Each city and county must maintain a General Plan as a guide for the physical development of the community. This required evaluation of housing needs and resulting program and policies is included as the “Housing Element” of a local government’s General Plan. Additionally, each Bay Area city’s share of the regional housing need is based on a plan, prepared by the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (ABAG/MTC), entitled the Final RHNA Plan: San Francisco Bay Area, 2023-2031, (RHNA Plan). In addition to accommodating the City’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), this 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 households of all income levels and needs. In accordance with State law, the City 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 within the city and making text amendments to ensure density ranges for designated projects are consistent with those described in the Land Use Element. The City would also amend the General Plan land use designation of the sites identified in Table 2-1, as shown in Table 2-9 in Chapter 2, Project Description, sufficient to meet the remaining unmet housing need. The City would rezone the sites identified in Table 2-1, as shown in Table 2-9 in Chapter 2, Project Description, for consistency with the General Plan Amendments. Compliance with Assembly Bill (AB) 2923 to allow for a minimum density of 75 du/acre and increased height for the Dublin-Pleasanton Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station property could require an amendment to the General Plan. Amendments to the Hacienda Planned Unit Development (PUD) Development Plan and the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan may be necessary and are addressed programmatically in this Draft Program EIR. To present a conservative analysis of potential environemntal impacts, this Draft Program EIR assumes a maximum of 7,787 net new dwelling units. Refer to Chapter 2, Project Description, for a complete description of the Housing Element Update. Project Objectives CEQA Guidelines, Section15124(b), require that the project description in a Draft Program EIR include “a statement of the objectives sought by the proposed project,” which should include “the underlying purpose of the project.” The underlying purpose of the Housing Element Update is to accommodate the RHNA and increase the inventory of land available for the development of