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Finally, staff notes that other provisions of State law tie amendment or update of other General Plan elements, notably the Safety Element, to adoption of the Housing Element. Due to the accelerated timeframe for Housing Element adoption, it has not been feasible to also prepare the necessary Safety Element updates; staff will bring these amendments forward in the coming months. PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEW The Planning Commission reviewed the environmental documents, updated Housing Element, and general plan amendments on January 11, 2023. The Commission recommended approval of all three items with no changes to the environmental documents nor the general plan amendments. However, the Commission recommended the following changes to the Draft Housing Element Sites Inventory: • Increase the lower end of the density range for Area 9 (Metro 580) and Area 29 (Oracle) from 45 du/ac to 50 du/ac, to be more consistent with densities at Stoneridge Mall. • Add Area 12 (Pimlico North) to the inventory, provided that staff is able to confirm affirmative owner interest in redeveloping these parcels from all three owners. • Decrease the density of Area 18 (Valley Plaza) from 30-40 du/ac to 15-25 du/ac., recognizing the desire to retain local-serving retail and concern that four-story buildings may not be appropriate in this location given residential adjacencies. • Modify the density of Area 25 (PUSD District) to allow up to 139 units. This results in a density of eight to 13 du/ac across the entire approximately 10.68 acres. Some areas of the site may accommodate Village High School, parks, and landscape buffers. As such, the units may be clustered resulting in an average of 18 du/ac across the areas containing housing. This density was supported by the commission provided that the District was able to demonstrate its commitment to providing teacher/workforce housing on the site. This amendment reflects changes to the site density requested by PUSD, documented in a letter submitted to the City on January 9, 2023 (Attachment 4). Finally, although not reflected as a change in the sites inventory, at the January 11 Planning Commission meeting (and in its January 9, 2023, letter), PUSD requested the City consider allowing additional units on Area 27 — PUSD Vineyard, by increasing the acreage where housing could be built from the previously recommended approximately seven acres, to approximately 10.64 acres with a commitment to include an approximately one-and-one-half-acre park. Since the CEQA analysis did not reflect the larger number of units requested by PUSD, staff recommends instead the insertion of a new bullet under General Plan Policy LU-12, for Site 27, for the City to consider this change, subject to completion of supplemental CEQA analysis. In addition, the Commission took action to recommend City Council adopt the Stoneridge Mall Framework Components, within which a density range of 50-65 du/ac was established across six approximately three-acre sites on each of the parcels at the mall. Page 11 of 14