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28. East Pleasanton Specific Other Plan East Pleasanton Specific Plan The East Pleasanton Specific Plan(EPSP) will provide a comprehensive long-range land use plan for an approximately 1,100-acre area on the east side of the city, extending into unincorporated Alameda County. The Pleasanton General Plan indicates that a specific plan should be prepared for this area; a planning process was originally initiated in 2012 under the guidance of a task force but was "paused" in 2015. In 2019 the City Council identified the East Pleasanton Specific Plan as a work plan priority, and in March 2020, provided direction to proceed with the planning effort, and that the City Council, Planning Commission, and City staff initiate a"clean slate"approach to the planning for East Pleasanton, which would consider multiple land use options for the entire area through the public process. Additional direction was provided that the Planning Commission and City staff initiate a concurrent and separate pre-housing element process to establish a draft inventory of citywide sites to meet projected Regional Housing Needs Allocations(RHNA) in advance of the formal housing element process—this process will be separately scoped, but will be designed to dovetail with the EPSP process. • Status Under Review • Next Steps/Details: Staff has coordinated the formation of a project team for the EPSP that will provide professional services to assist with the effort and developed a more detailed scope of work for City Council consideration. However,this project has been on hold due to the Housing Element; City Council is expected to provide direction as part of its Work Plan priority setting process during Spring 2023. • Applicant: City of Pleasanton • Staff Contact(s): Shweta Bonn 29. Objective Design Other Standards Objective Design Standards In 2017, the California Legislature passed a package of 15 laws related to housing, referred to as the"housing package." The housing package included a number of changes to state law intended to streamline and increase housing production. A further series of housing-related legislation was passed by the legislature in 2019, including SB 330, the Housing Crisis Act. The streamlining provisions of SB 330 and other laws include measures to make approval processes more routine and predictable for developers, including limitations on discretionary review processes and placing an increased emphasis on objective design and development standards as the primary criteria that may be used as the basis for project approval or denial. With these new criteria in place, and expecting the emphasis on objective standards to continue in future legislation, it is in the City's interest to have a robust body of residential design and development standards in place, to ensure those projects deliver high-quality design, appropriate site planning and amenities, and are compatible with surrounding neighborhoods and the