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Planning Commission City of Pleasanton December 14, 2022 Page 2 I. The City Must Assign Appropriate General Plan Land Use Designations to Each HEU Inventory Site. At present, the proposed General Plan land use designations for each of the HEU inventory sites are unclear. For example, nothing in the HEU clearly identifies the proposed General Plan land use designation for each inventory site, including those requiring a rezoning, and the ODS describes the “General Plan Land Use Designation / Zoning” for each site as “TBD [to be determined]”. (Draft ODS, Table 2.1.)2 It is therefore unclear how each site would be accommodating the units the HEU assumes can and would be developed. To provide the required certainty regarding the basic development standards that will apply to each site and confirm that each can actually accommodate the HEU’s assumed densities without undergoing a General Plan amendment, the City must identify specific General Plan land use designations for each of the HEU inventory sites. Each designation must accommodate the type and density of units anticipated for the relevant portion of each site.3 This clarification is necessary to ensure that the HEU complies with state housing law. (See Gov. Code, §§ 65583(a)(1), (c)(1)4; 65583.2(c)5; and 65302.) 2 Similarly, the Draft Environmental Impact Report (“DEIR”) for the HEU depicts six of the HEU sites requiring rezoning as part of the HEU process (each, “rezone site”) as having two apparently overlapping, projected General Plan land use designations. 3 For the Kiewit Site, this would involve: (1) designating an approximately 5-acre portion of the site with a medium to high-density General Plan land use designation that allows for development of affordable, multi-family units the HEU contemplates in this area and that is proposed by the Kiewit Project; and (2) designating the remaining approximately 45-acre portion of the site with a low or medium density designation that allows for development of single family market rate units that the HEU contemplates and that is proposed by the Kiewit Project. This could involve assigning a 5-acre portion of the Kiewit Site the General Plan’s existing High Density Residential (HDR) land use designation and the approximately 45-acre portion of the site a Medium Density Residential (MDR) designation. Seefried has provided the City with a proposed General Plan land use map exhibit that is consistent with designs for the Kiewit Project. 4 Government Code section 65583(c)(1) requires the City to identify actions, including appropriate zoning and development standards, that will accommodate the City’s RHNA for each income level on those sites that must be rezoned to allow for housing development. 5 Government Code section 65583.2(c) requires a housing element inventory to specify the number of units that can realistically be accommodated on a site and whether the site is adequate to accommodate lower income, moderate-income, or above-moderate income housing. Attachment 4 - ODS Public Comments - 01-26-23 CC - Page 2