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<br />C-24 | City of Pleasanton Housing Constraints <br />Policy 11 discusses a 25 percent density bonus for affordable housing on PUD-zoned parcels, <br />which is inconsistent with Chapter 17.38 and state law. The City should amend Land Use Element <br />Policy 11 for consistency. <br />Incentives may be approved for projects that provide affordable housing, including affordable units <br />consistent with the City’s inclusionary housing requirements (see Inclusionary Housing below). <br />Examples of incentives that may be approved for projects with on-site affordable units are: <br /> Fee waiver or deferral <br /> Design modifications (reduced setbacks; reduction in infrastructure requirements; <br />reduced open space requirements; reduced landscaping requirements; reduced <br />interior or exterior amenities; reduction in parking requirements; and height restriction <br />waivers) <br /> Use of available lower income housing funds for the purpose of providing second <br />mortgages to prospective unit owners or to subsidize the cost of a unit to establish an <br />affordable rent or an affordable sales price <br /> Priority processing of building and engineering approvals <br />Inclusionary Housing <br />Inclusionary Housing Ordinance <br />In 2000, the City adopted an Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (IZO) (Municipal Code Chapter <br />17.44) which modified the City's requirements for the provision of affordable housing by the <br />builders of new residential projects. The IZO, which has not been amended since 2000, requires <br />below market rate units to be provided in the following projects: <br /> New single-family residential developments of 15 units or more must provide at least <br />20 percent of its units at a below-market sales price <br /> New multi-family development of 15 or more units must provide at least 15 percent of <br />the total units for multi-family developments). <br />Inclusionary units must be dispersed throughout the project, unless otherwise approved by the <br />City, and be constructed with identical exterior materials and an exterior architectural design that <br />is consistent with the market rate units in the project. However, inclusionary units can be smaller <br />and have fewer interior amenities than the market rate units in the project. Other requirements <br />are that the inclusionary units remain affordable in perpetuity through recordation of an affordable <br />housing agreement, and that the inclusionary units in a project be constructed concurrently within <br />or prior to the construction of the project’s market rate units. <br />The primary emphasis of the IZO is to achieve the inclusion of affordable housing units to be <br />constructed in conjunction with market rate units within the same project in new residential <br />projects. However, since this may not always be practical, alternatives are available for a