City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update
<br />CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations
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<br />Development applications would be reviewed by the City for compliance with the goals, policies, and
<br />programs of the General Plan, applicable specific plans, applicable zoning requirements, design
<br />guidelines, and the Scenic Highway Plan, and compliance with these standards would ensure
<br />development consistent with the Housing Element Update would not substantially damage scenic
<br />resources within view of a State Scenic Highway (Draft Program EIR, Page 3.1-19–21).
<br />Potential Effect
<br />Impact AES-3: Development consistent with Housing Element Update, rezonings, General Plan and
<br />Specific Plan Amendments would not, in non-urbanized areas, substantially degrade the existing
<br />visual character or quality of public views of the site and its surroundings. (Public views are those
<br />that are experienced from publicly accessible vantage point). Development consistent with Housing
<br />Element Update, rezonings, General Plan and Specific Plan Amendments would not, in urbanized
<br />areas, conflict with applicable zoning and other regulations governing scenic quality. (Draft Program
<br />EIR, Page 3.1-21).
<br />Findings: Less than significant impact.
<br />Facts in Support of Findings: Development consistent with the Housing Element Update could
<br />include sites in both urbanized areas and non-urbanized areas.
<br />Consistency with Scenic Quality Regulations: The potential sites for housing, aside from Site 1
<br />(Lester), are located in an urbanized area. Existing land use designations for the potential housing
<br />sites include residential, commercial, industrial, office, mixed use, community facilities, agriculture,
<br />public health and safety, parks and recreation, and public and institutional. The existing zoning
<br />designations include agriculture, residential, commercial, office, mixed use, industrial, public and
<br />institutional. Several of the sites are within Planned Unit Development districts, and as part of the
<br />Housing Element Update, the potential sites for rezoning would be rezoned to allow for residential
<br />development under a PUD district. To the extent projects may be subject to review through the PUD
<br />process, the PUD zoning would provide flexibility in residential development standards and housing
<br />types, in conjunction with the applicable design standards established by the City with the intent of
<br />ensuring well-designed and attractive projects that minimize aesthetics impacts.
<br />As previously discussed, all future development consistent with the Housing Element Update would
<br />be required to be reviewed for conformance with Objective Design Standards and must comply with
<br />applicable General Plan policies that protect scenic quality. With respect to the sites zoned for
<br />densities above 30 dwelling units per acre, which includes the Dublin-Pleasanton BART station
<br />property, Policy 6.1 requires those properties to be dispersed throughout the community. Program
<br />6.1 requires the City to adopt Objective Design Standards that would ensure those properties are
<br />developed at appropriate height limits, with compatible Floor Area Ratio, setbacks, massing, open
<br />space and parking requirements, and approval criteria to ensure projects can accomplish their
<br />assigned densities, while mitigating potential incompatibilities between those higher density
<br />projects and adjacent uses by implementing standards such as height limits, Floor Area Ratio,
<br />setbacks, massing, open space and parking requirements. All properties zoned for densities above 30
<br />dwelling units per acre would be required to comply with these standards, which would be
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