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Draft Housing Element December 14, 2022 6 of 21 exceptions. Although the exact standards in need of adjustment will be determined through study, they are likely to include setbacks, floor area ratio, and possibly modified parking minimums within RM zones that would scale parking requirements to unit size. Staff intends to work with the Professional Services Team working on the Objective Design Standards effort (Van Meter Williams Pollack), to identify and bring forward any needed revisions to specific standards, in accordance with the Housing Element program. The draft program language that was added is as follows: Program 4.6 The City allows for parking reductions in certain circumstances, and state law establishes no minimum parking requirement or highly reduced parking rates for qualifying projects (e.g., state density bonus law, SB 35, AB 2097, etc.). To further reduce the impacts of parking requirements on the production of housing, the City will assess and update multi-family parking standards citywide to establish lower rates for studios and one-bedroom units and reduce the covered parking requirement (i.e., not require covered parking for studio and one-bedroom units). Program 4.7 The City will analyze and test standards in the RM zones to determine standards (e.g., setbacks, parking, etc.) that constrain developments and limit the ability to achieve maximum allowed density. Based on the analysis, the City will modify RM zones standards in the Zoning Ordinance to ensure maximum density can b e achieved without exception (e.g., planned unit development, etc.). Planning Commission Review As noted, there are numerous other revisions and amendments throughout the Draft Housing Element in response to HCD’s comments, in addition to the two more substantive items noted above. Staff seeks the Planning Commission’s review and feedback on the proposed modifications to the Draft Housing Element. Level of Service LOS is a performance standard included in the City’s General Plan, which measures intersection congestion based on the average vehicle delay. This vehicle delay is then given a letter score which correlates to the delay, with LOS A reflecting the least amount of delay and LOS F the greatest delay. The General Plan specifies LOS D as the maximum acceptable delay (i.e., average vehicle delay not to exceed 55 seconds). Although CEQA includes traffic impacts among the impacts to evaluate, changes in State law disallow the use of LOS as a measure of environmental impacts. However, given the existing General Plan policy and concern to ensure projects do not contribute unacceptable congestion within Pleasanton, the City conducted a separate Level of Service Assessment, which evaluated the effects of developing housing at prescribed densities, on 32 intersections throughout Pleasanton. The Housing Element Level of Service Assessment is included as Exhibit D. The Assessment used the Pleasanton Traffic Model to evaluate the impacts of the Project (i.e., the 25 housing sites) for the existing, near-term, and buildout timeframes. The existing timeframe, however, uses