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2023-2031 (611 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. There 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 City 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, Exhibit B of Attachment 2, represents a culmination of the process to date incorporating feedback and direction including from the most recent set of meetings in December 2022. The City Council met and provided direction to staff on the revised Draft Housing Element on December 20, 2022. Adjustments to Housing Element Based on the City Council's review and direction on December 20, staff has adjusted the review process for Housing Sites as well as the Housing Element rezone sites, as described further below. Housing Sites Project Review Process Staff had initially proposed adjusting the Planned Unit Development (PUD) process to create two alternative PUD review processes or paths — one following the existing discretionary process for projects seeking rezoning and/or wishing (or needing to) deviate from established objective design standards. A second path was proposed to be established for rezone sites identified for housing in the 6th Cycle Housing Element, with Planning Commission review and approval based solely on a conformance analysis of proposed projects with the Objective Design Standards. Staff has adjusted the proposed process for review of Housing Sites projects, based on feedback from City Council: To avoid any ambiguity, the review process is proposed to be made more distinct from the PUD process, and it will instead be an entirely separate process called a "Housing Site Conformance Review". Instead of all projects automatically being reviewed by the Planning Commission, the default would be for review and action by the Zoning Administrator (ZA). Larger projects —those over 50 units — exclusive of ADUs/JADUs, would trigger review and action by the Planning Commission, whereas smaller projects up to 50 units would be subject to review and action by the Zoning Administrator. In both instances (PC or ZA), review and action would be limited to conformance analysis of the proposed projects with the Objective Design Standards. Public notice would be required for both the ZA and Planning Commission review, and, as with all approval actions specified in the municipal code, both the ability to "call up" a project for review by the Planning Commission or City Council, and the ability for an appeal to be filed, would be provided. Page 5 of 14