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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update Draft Program EIR Executive Summary FirstCarbon Solutions ES-3 https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/EIR/3 - Draft/21480022 Sec00-03 Executive Summary.docx housing compliant with State law and consistent with the General Plan. The following are the primary project objectives for the Housing Element Update: • Provide a vision for housing through 2031. • Maintain the existing housing inventory to serve housing needs. • Meet the City’s fair share of the regional housing need to accommodate projected population growth and meet existing housing needs within the City. • Ensure capacity for development of new housing to meet the RHNA at all income levels. • Encourage housing development where supported by existing or planned infrastructure while maintaining existing neighborhood character. • Encourage, develop, and maintain programs and policies to meet existing projected affordable housing needs, including for special needs populations such as persons with disabilities, seniors, the unhoused, and larger households. • Develop a vision for Pleasanton that supports sustainable local, regional, and State housing and environmental goals. • Provide new housing communities with substantial amenities to provide a high quality of life for residents. • Adopt a housing element that complies with California Housing Element Law and can be certified by the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Significant Unavoidable Adverse Impacts The Housing Element Update would result in the following significant unavoidable impacts: • Project-Level Vehicle Miles Traveled: Many of the potential sites for rezoning are located in areas which are expected to generate a home-based VMT per resident above the relevant threshold of significance. Mitigation Measure (MM) TRANS-2 requires individual housing project development proposals that do not screen out from a VMT impact analysis to provide a quantitative VMT analysis and, if results indicate the VMT associated with the individual housing project would be above the threshold, it would be required to include VMT reduction measures as provided in MM TRANS-2. Combining reduction measures reduces their effectiveness resulting in a cap on the total VMT reduction these measures can provide. Because the effectiveness of the measures in reducing an individual development project’s VMT impact to a less than significant level cannot be confirmed in this analysis, the impact would remain significant and unavoidable. • Cumulative Vehicle Miles Traveled: Cumulative projects in the nine-county Bay Area will generate new VMT, which would be added to the roadway network within the geographic context. All cumulative projects would be required to comply with applicable local regulations and General Plan policies that address VMT, as well as mitigate their fair share of impacts related to VMT. Nonetheless, the Housing Element Update, in conjunction with other past,