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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update Draft Program EIR Executive Summary FirstCarbon Solutions ES-5 https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/EIR/3 - Draft/21480022 Sec00-03 Executive Summary.docx projected water supply deficiency in the City even without implementation of the Housing Element Update. As discussed in this Draft Program EIR, the City is actively exploring alternative water supply options to account for the loss of groundwater supply, such as purchasing additional water from Zone 7, or a groundwater wells rehabilitation project, which would allow it to resume use of local groundwater. Although Zone 7 has sufficient supplies available, because the City is still evaluating options for additional water and has not finalized additional supplies at time of publication of this Draft Program EIR, the potential water supply deficiency is considered significant for the purposes of this analysis. Therefore, although the analysis provided in this Draft Program EIR is conservative, decommissioning all of the City’s ground water supply wells would result in projected water supply that would not be sufficient to accommodate cumulative development and there is no mitigation available to reduce this cumulative impact to a less than significant level. Therefore, this cumulative impact would be significant and unavoidable. Summary of Project Alternatives Below is a summary of the alternatives to the proposed Housing Element Update considered in Chapter 6, Alternatives to the proposed Housing Element Update. No Project Alternative Under the No Project Alternative, the Housing Element would not be updated with new policies and no zoning or land use designation changes would occur. Future development would be in accordance with the current land use and zoning maps identified in the City of Pleasanton General Plan. The existing Housing Element (2051-2023) plans for an increase of approximately 10,800 new residents and an addition of 3,243 housing units.3 Under this alternative, the current goals, policies, and zoning would remain in place. Alternative 1-Remove Select Industrial and Commercial Sites Alternative 1, Remove Select Industrial and Commercial Sites, would remove some of the industrially/commercially zoned sites from the sites inventory list. Industrial zoned land, and commercially zoned sites that allow for service commercial uses such as auto repair, is limited throughout the city, so this alternative aims to preserve the existing zoning on those properties. Some retail commercial sites are also excluded from this alternative, to reflect community concerns about loss of local-serving retail. This alternative would result in a maximum development potential of 5,065 units in addition to the existing residential zoning (2,792 units) for a total of 7,857 unit. Alternative 2-Transit-Oriented Focus Alternative Alternative 2, Transit-Oriented Focus, would focus on sites in proximity to transit for rezoning to residential use. This alternative would remove the higher VMT sites as potential sites for rezoning 3 City of Pleasanton. 2014. Housing Element (2015-2023), Appendix A: Review and Assessment of 2007 Housing Element. June. Website: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/pdf/Draft-HsgElem-June- 2014.pdf. Accessed: October 17, 2022.