5_Exhibit B_Resolution_Attachment 2

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing City of Pleasanton | F-5 served as a Naval Personnel Distribution Center for the duration of the war and grew to include more than 4,000 employees. This influx of war personnel to the region created a severe housing shortage in the area and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) recommended affordable working and middle-class housing. This led to the first modern speculative subdivision in Pleasanton (the Harris Acres tract) which comprised of 50 small single-family homes which met the FHA standards for affordable, comfortable homes, meeting “maximum accommodation within a minimum of means”. The Harris Acres tract included some housing examples with secondary entrances which allowed owners to rent bedrooms to boarders. The Navy eventually constructed a series of housing areas for wartime personnel, including off Kottinger Avenue in Pleasanton (called Kottinger Village). Small developments of multifamily dwellings also began appearing downtown generally in the form of small, single-story connected units. While there are a variety of housing types intermingled throughout the downtown, the blocks west of Main Street, which lie closer to the railroad corridor tend to represent a higher concentration of smaller, more modestly-built single family homes and multi-family apartments. By 1950, Pleasanton’s population nearly doubled to just over 2,200 people. After World War II, commercial and residential development in Pleasanton continued on the outskirts of the downtown area but grew dramatically outside the downtown in former agricultural districts. Development of the California Research and Development Company/University of California, Berkeley nuclear lab (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and other businesses attracted thousands of new residents to the Tri-Valley in the 1950s and 1960s. The National Highway Act passed in 1956, which brought Interstates 580 and 680 to the region, and resulted in another wave of new economic activity. During this time, increased automobile ownership allowed for easier travel for commuters into the Hayward and Oakland areas. Corporate and research interests seeking land for large-scale research, office, and industrial campuses and high taxes on agricultural land resulted in widespread sale of agricultural property in Pleasanton in the 1960s. While Interstates 580 and 680, and later the extension of BART to Pleasanton allowed for easy access to major job centers for new residents, these new transportation links also facilitated Pleasanton’s growth as a jobs center in its own right, with establishment of Hacienda and other office centers, and a major regional shopping center, Stoneridge Mall, in the mid-1980’s. The period between 1950 and 1970 also saw the establishment of many of the single-family neighborhoods that make up much of Pleasanton’s residential areas today. During this time, Pleasanton’s population rose sharply, from approximately 2,200 to over 18,000. Strong residential growth continued in Pleasanton through the 1970’s and into the 1980’s, when concerns over development and water supply and quality began to generate more community resistance to growth. Beginning in 1976, the Regional Water Quality Board mandated growth restrictions to no more than two percent per year, to remedy deficient sewage treatment facilities. Citizen concerns about growth, air quality, water supply and a host of related issues led the City, in 1978, to adopt its first growth management program, also known as the Residential Allocation Program (RAP)