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Draft Housing Element, EIR, and General Plan Amendments Planning Commission 5 of 11 Lastly, the document includes the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program. The purpose of which is to describe how and when the mitigation measures adopted will be implemented. It details out each mitigation measure, method of verification (e.g., incorporated into building permits), timing of verification (e.g., prior to issuance of a building permit), and responsible entity for verification (e.g., City Community Development Department). 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element The City formally initiated the Housing Element update process in March 2021 with hearings beginning in May 2021. Throughout the process, the City has engaged the community through social media, the local press, utility bill mailing , website development, an online survey, and other methods. T here have been over 40 public meetings and outreach events which included, among others, an in -person booth at the Farmers Market, community workshops, Commission meetings, and Council meetings. Staff has engaged with various stakeholder groups and representatives from community-based organizations, as well as the development community, to seek input on opportunities, constraints, and challenges around housing in Pleasanton. The Housing Element put forth for review, Attachment 2 of Exhibit B, represents a culmination of the process to date incorporating feedback and direction including from the most recent set of meetings in December 2022. The Planning Commission last reviewed the draft Housing Element on December 14, 2022. At that time, the Commission reviewed HCD’s letter and review of the City’s draft Housing Element, staff’s response to that letter, suggested redlines to the draft Housing Element, and the draft rezone site list recommended for inclusion. Since that meeting, the City Council met and provided direction to staff on December 20, 2022. City Council Review The City Council was generally supportive of the redlines to the draft Housing Element. However, they provided direction to reevaluate the review process for rezone sites and consider decoupling or making it more clearly distinct from the (discretionary) Planned Unit Development (PUD) process as well as consider having the review occur at a staff level versus the Planning Commission, given the strictures of State law that limit the City’s review and basis for approval or denial, to conformance with adopted objective standards. Housing Sites Project Review Process Staff had initially proposed adjusting the PUD process to create two alternative PUD review processes or paths. One path would be as it exists today, and would be applicable to projects seeking rezoning, and/or wishing (or needing to) deviate from established objective design standards, with discretion afforded to the City for approval or denial of such projects. Another path, PUD Conformance Review, would have been established for rezone sites identified for housing in the 6th Cycle Housing Element. The