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Farella Pleasanton City Council Braun+Martel June 1, 2023 Page 2 Government Code § 65583.2(g)(2). The City Council must thus decide whether it can make findings, based on substantial evidence,that the sites listed as meeting the need for lower income housing will stop being used for their existing use before the end of January 2031. The Council should find that several of the sites on the inventory do not meet that standard: 1. The Kaiser medical center parking lot on Stoneridge Drive is not likely to become housing before January 2031. This site was rezoned in 2011 and there has been no proposal since then to redevelop it as housing,or even any interest expressed since then. Instead of redeveloping, Kaiser has since then installed a solar system over the parking lot at a cost of nearly $1 million, an investment that shows a long-term plan to continue the parking use. Kaiser has also continued to improve and expand the medical center. When approached by staff after the Council adopted the Housing Element in January, Kaiser did not express any interest in building residential housing. Instead, according to an internal staff email obtained by Public Records Act request, Kaiser"shared that they are planning for a new/expanded surgery center at their Stoneridge location—their $10-12M project has no solid timeline yet." This is not a site where the owner is likely to build housing. The parking lot is likely to continue to be used for parking and solar production for the medical facility. While the revised draft expresses hope that Kaiser could choose to build on a vacant 3 acre portion of the site, it offers no substantial evidence that Kaiser is"likely"to do so(instead of, for example, expanding its parking lot when it expands the building to accommodate the new/expanded surgery center), or that it could realistically accommodate 182 units of lower income housing on that portion given the City's new objective design standards(including setbacks,height limits). Listing this site as 6.06 acres meeting a need for 182 units of lower income housing is unjustified and against the evidence. 2. The BART parking lot parcels are not likely to become housing before January 2031. BART has a ten-year work plan, and stated that it would only prepare development plans during the 2025-2030 timeframe if it could obtain additional funding for staff to do so, and even then, planned to develop commercial properties, not residential. Pleasanton acknowledged this challenge in its ABAG appeal of the RHNA allocation: One of the more significant theoretical development opportunities is housing on land owned by BART. BART, in its August 2020 Transit- Oriented Development Program Work Plan, identified the Pleasanton area BART stations as a low priority for investment in housing-focused projects(both BART stations are identified as priorities for commercial, not residential, development [], meaning that a significant policy shift would have to occur at BART in order to bring these sites on-line during the RHNA planning period.