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F-6 | City of Pleasanton Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and later as the Growth Management Ordinance (GMO). In 1996, Pleasanton voters approved two growth control measures, adoption of the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) and the Residential Buildout Initiative, also known as the “housing cap,” which established a 29,000-unit cap on residential development in the Pleasanton Planning Area. It is noted that the residential growth of the city occurred primarily after the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Act in 1968. Approximately 80 percent of Pleasanton’s existing housing was constructed after 1970. Based on a legal challenge, the housing cap was eliminated in 2015, and the City made modifications to the GMO to ensure compliance with State housing laws. Since that time, the City has seen a significant increase in the construction of new multifamily housing compared to past decades, including on several sites rezoned as part of the 4th Cycle Housing Element update. As of 2020, Pleasanton’s housing stock was made up of approximately 70 percent single-family homes (attached and detached) and 30 percent multi-family homes (compared to approximately 75 percent single family and 25 percent multi-family in 1990). Pleasanton today is a highly desirable community, known for its high quality of life, abundant parks, vibrant historic downtown core, excellent educational opportunities, and convenient access to local and regional services and job centers. Through thoughtful design standards, careful site planning, and implementation of inclusionary requirements and other programs to support production of affordable housing, these higher-density developments have been successfully integrated in the community and brought much-needed affordable and multifamily housing opportunities to Pleasanton over the past decade. While Pleasanton’s residents benefit from the high quality of life and access to opportunity that exists today, it is important to acknowledge some of the broader context within which the city’s growth and development, and that of many similar Bay Area communities, occurred. As has been documented in several recent studies, the post-war growth of suburban communities (including Pleasanton) includes a of relatively affluent, and until recently, often predominantly White composition. This is tied to decades of broader Federal and other government policies around housing production, as well as private financial institutions’ practices that disadvantaged people of color. Factors such as restrictive lending rules and racial covenants, although outlawed by the 1968 Federal Fair Housing Act, caused populations of color to have significantly less access to the types of homeownership and other economic opportunities that build generational wealth, resulted in community disinvestment in many urban centers, and reduced economic and housing mobility for many, advancing patterns of segregation that persist across the region and within many cities today. Recognizing the legacy of these practices across the State, efforts to affirmatively further fair housing as outlined in the introduction to this section are, in large part, intended to address the racial and economic disparities that exist, protect existing vulnerable populations from displacement and, and improve access to local opportunities and housing choices for all. The City of Pleasanton is committed to advancing and supporting these efforts.