5_Exhibit B_Resolution_Attachment 2

Housing Constraints City of Pleasanton | C-23 reasonable to accommodate requests from persons with disabilities to waive a setback requirement or other standard of the Zoning Ordinance to ensure that homes are accessible for the mobility impaired. Whether a particular modification is reasonable depends on the circumstances. Municipal Code Chapter 18.86 (Reasonable Accommodation) establishes a formal procedure for individuals with disabilities seeking equal access to housing to request a reasonable accommodation and criteria to be used when considering such requests. The Code allows a reasonable accommodation request to be made by any person with a disability or their representative when the rules, standards, and practices required for housing acts as a barrier to fair housing opportunities. The following factors are required to be considered prior to a decision on a reasonable accommodation request:  Whether the subject housing will be used by a person with a disability.  Whether the request is necessary to make specific housing available to a person with a disability.  Whether the requested reasonable accommodation would impose an undue financial or administrative burden on the City.  Whether the reasonable accommodation would require a fundamental alteration in the nature of a City program or law, including but not limited to land use and zoning.  Potential impact on surrounding uses.  Physical attributes of the property and structures.  Alternative reasonable accommodations which may provide an equivalent level of benefit. Since the reasonable accommodation process intends to authorize exceptions to zoning standards to provide access to housing for persons with disabilities, certain findings should be modified to clarify intent while ensuring public health and safety objectives are maintained. The two findings related to 1) a fundamental alteration of a City program or law, and 2) potential impact on surrounding uses will be modified so as to not constrain reasonable accommodation approvals (Program 5.7). The City has not had any reasonable accommodation requests over the last planning period. Density Bonus and Incentives for Affordable Housing The City provides for the development of affordable housing for lower-income households through its affordable housing bonus program (Chapter 17.38 (Density Bonus) of the Municipal Code). These density bonus provisions were updated most recently in 2013 in accordance with state density bonus law (Government Code §65915 et seq.). In 2020, AB 2345 was adopted, which increased the allowed density bonus from 35 percent to 50 percent for qualifying development projects. Therefore, Chapter 17.38 should be updated for consistency with AB 2345 and other changes in state housing density bonus law since 2012. Also, General Plan Land Use Element