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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations 2 FirstCarbon Solutions Https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/FOF/21480022 Pleasanton Housing Element FOF.docx the incorporation of feasible mitigation. Section 1.8 summarizes the alternatives discussed in the Program EIR and makes findings with respect to the feasibility of alternatives and whether the alternatives would lessen the significant environmental effects of development consistent with the Housing Element Update. The following sets forth all significant effects of Housing Element Update and, with respect to each effect, makes one or more of the findings set forth in Section 1.1, Introduction, and provides facts in support of such findings. The Program EIR provides additional facts in support of the findings herein. The mitigation measures set forth in the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) (Attachment A) are incorporated by reference in these findings, and the findings in Sections 1.6 and 1.7 refer to individual mitigation measures as appropriate. In the event of any inconsistencies between the mitigation measures set forth herein and the MMRP, the MMRP shall control. 1.3 - Project Summary 1.3.1 - Project Description State law dictates that each city and county in California evaluate local housing needs and, as part of the Housing Element, prepare a realistic set of policies and programs to fulfill those needs in conjunction with the local government’s long-range General Plan. Each city and county must maintain a General Plan as a guide for the physical development of the community. This required evaluation of housing needs and resulting program and policies is included as the “Housing Element” of a local government’s General Plan. Additionally, each Bay Area city’s share of the regional housing need is based on a plan, prepared by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), entitled the Final RHNA Plan: San Francisco Bay Area, 2023-2031, (RHNA Plan). In addition to accommodating the City’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), this Housing Element Update includes several programs intended to improve the quality of the housing inventory, conserve existing neighborhoods, increase housing affordability, and remove potential governmental and nongovernmental constraints to housing for households of all income levels and needs. In accordance with State law, the City proposes to adopt a General Plan Amendment to update the General Plan’s existing Housing Element, including designating sites and identifying updated goals, policies, and actions, along with revisions to the General Plan Land Use Element to ensure consistency between it and the Housing Element (i.e., updating the General Plan land use plan to expand the inventory of land available for the development of new housing within the city and making text amendments to ensure density ranges for designated projects are consistent with those described in the Land Use Element). The City would also amend the General Plan land use designation and zoning of the sites identified in Table 2-1, as shown in Table 2-9 in Draft Program EIR Chapter 2, Project Description, sufficient to meet the remaining unmet housing need. Compliance with Assembly Bill (AB) 2923 to allow for a minimum density of 75 du/acre and increased height for the Dublin-Pleasanton Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station property could require an amendment to the General Plan.