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<br />Existing Programs Review City of Pleasanton | D-7 <br />Table D-1: Existing Housing Element Programs Review <br />Program <br /># Program Objectives Responsible <br />Party Evaluation Modify / Delete / <br />Continue <br />roadways, water, sewer, and facilities, etc. <br />The objective of this program is to assure <br />that the City’s Growth Management <br />Program is consistent with State law and <br />that there is a procedure for assuring that <br />there is available infrastructure to serve <br />future approved residential development, <br />and to create a more efficient process for <br />implementing the program. <br />share of the regional <br />housing need for all <br />income levels during the <br />Housing Element <br />planning period per <br />Program 30.2. The City <br />continues to monitor and <br />review the Growth <br />Management Program. <br />suspension of <br />implementation of the <br />Growth Management <br />Ordinance. <br />10.2 <br />Require the duration of extremely low-, <br />low- and very low-income set-aside units <br />within projects to be in perpetuity. <br />- City Council <br />The City continues to <br />require that all regulatory <br />agreements for below- <br />market rental units to be <br />in perpetuity (or if <br />required due to financing, <br />for 99 years). As a result, <br />no units are at risk of <br />conversion. <br />Delete: Retain as a policy <br />for lower-income units to <br />be deed restricted in <br />perpetuity whenever <br />allowable pursuant to <br />funding programs. <br />11.1 <br />Continue to provide incentives such as <br />reduced development fees, assistance in <br />public improvements, priority in permit <br />processing, increased density, altered <br />site-development standards, mortgage <br />revenue bonds, affordable-housing <br />competition, and other creative incentives <br />to encourage the development of housing <br />affordable to moderate-, low-, extremely <br />low-, and very low-income households and <br />households with special needs. A priority <br />will be placed on projects that provide the <br />largest number of units at the greatest <br />level of affordability. The availability of <br />incentives will be incorporated in the City’s <br />Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance, to be <br />consistent with State law and recent court <br />decisions, but for specific projects, will <br />also be promoted through the City’s web <br />site, in local newspapers, and through <br />The objective of this <br />program is to assure that <br />incentives are made <br />available and known to <br />the development <br />community <br />City Council <br /> <br />Specific incentives are <br />included in the City’s <br />Inclusionary Zoning <br />Ordinance (i.e., fee <br />waiver/deferral, design <br />modifications, second <br />mortgages, and priority <br />processing). These and <br />other incentives, such as <br />increased density <br />through density bonus <br />provisions, have been <br />utilized by affordable <br />housing projects over the <br />planning period. The City <br />provided priority <br />processing for the <br />Sunflower Hill project in <br />2017. <br />Modify: Update density <br />bonus provisions to <br />comply with current state <br />law (e.g., AB 2345). Study <br />and amend the <br />Inclusionary Zoning <br />Ordinance to better meet <br />housing policy objectives.