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F-48 | City of Pleasanton Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing <br />F.5.1 Sub-Area Analysis <br />This section describes the five sub-areas of Pleasanton that were analyzed to compare conditions <br />across the city (Figure F-26). <br /> Subarea 1: North central <br /> Subarea 2: Northwest <br /> Sub-area 3: Western <br /> Sub-area 4: Southeast <br /> Sub-area 5: Downtown and vicinity <br />The sub-area geographies reflect areas that share similar qualities such as income levels, race <br />and ethnicity, and concentrated areas of poverty, although some characteristics are quite similar <br />across Pleasanton. The sub-area boundaries are also based on census tract boundaries that <br />approximate the City’s boundaries. The goal of the sub-area analysis is to ensure that the City’s <br />housing policies do not contribute to existing fair housing challenges. <br />As shown in Table F-11, demographic characteristics and other conditions vary somewhat across <br />Pleasanton. The share of Non-White residents in Sub-Areas 2, 3, and 5 is around half of the <br />population, while Sub-Area 1 has the largest share at 66.5 percent and Sub-Area 4 has the smaller <br />share at 38.4 percent. In general, Sub-Area 5, which contains Pleasanton’s Downtown, differs the <br />most from the other Sub-Areas. Sub-Area 5 has the largest share of low to moderate-income <br />households (33.8 percent), overcrowded households (7.3 percent), cost-burdened renter <br />households (56.9 percent) and homeowner households (12.1 percent). Sub-Areas 2 and 3 have <br />the smallest shares of low to moderate-income households at 13.3 percent and 14.3 percent <br />respectively. Sub-Areas 1 and 4 have somewhat larger shares of low to moderate-income <br />households at 22.6 percent and 20 percent respectively. Sub-Area 1 also has a similarly high share <br />of cost-burdened homeowner households as Sub-Area 5 at 12 percent, and Sub-Area 4 has the <br />second highest share of cost-burdened renter households at 51.3 percent. While there are <br />moderate differences between the Sub-Areas, all five sub-areas score as High or Highest <br />Resource TCAC areas. While Sub-Area 4 is the only sub-area without lower income sites, some <br />sites in this sub-area are on property owned by the Pleasanton Unified School District and religious <br />institutions, which may develop as below market rate even though categorized as above moderate <br />income based on density ranges. As such, the distribution of housing sites does not perpetuate <br />segregation or isolate the RHNA, and programs would promote lower and moderate-income <br />housing throughout Pleasanton, such as through the inclusionary zoning, accessory dwelling units, <br />rezoning, and other programs that facilitate the development of below market rate housing.