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6th Cycle Program 7.6: To improve housing mobility and promote more housing choices and affordability throughout Pleasanton, the City will employ a suite of actions to be targeted in lower density areas, including outreach, resources, and other strategies with an overall goal of expanding housing opportunities affordable to extremely low, very low, low, and moderate income households. Actions and strategies include: 1. Religious institution/faith-based sites: Facilitate housing on religious institution/faithbased sites. In addition to outreach identified in Program 1.5 (#3), the City will expedite processing of housing applications on religious institution/faith-based sites. Permit 10 housing units on a religious institution/faith-based site(s) with a target of 60 percent of units in lower density areas during the 2023-2031 planning period. If no application for housing on a religious institution/faith-based site is received by December 2025, the City will expand outreach efforts to be conducted annually. This may include direct mailings to faith-based sites highlighting current successful affordable housing units on other faith-based sites, as well as available City grants and loans for such housing and human services endeavors. 2. Homesharing: Research and pursue a homesharing program, including coordination with non-profits and other organizations to assist with matching tenants with existing homeowners. The City may provide collaborators with data about single family homes with long-time residents, facilitate presentations at the Pleasanton Senior Center, and other outreach assistance. The City will market and take other actions as necessary at least annually with the goal of five opportunities per year. 3. Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and other “missing middle” housing in lower-density zones: Prepare pre-approved ADU building plans. Publicize ADU and JADU incentives such as reduced permit fees. City will provide information about Ordinance No. 2228 and Cal. GC§§65852.21 and 66411.7 (urban lot splits and two-unit developments), including the relevant objective design standards and streamlined review available for such units, with a target of one application for an additional housing unit each year. City will provide information that homeowners’ associations’ and CC&Rs are preempted by state law and cannot prohibit ADUs or JADUs. Also see Program 1.9. 4. Additional Junior ADUs: Develop and adopt objective standards to allow more than one Junior ADU per structure by July 2025. The objective is to achieve at least 10 JADUs in lower density areas by January 2031. 5. Marketing of housing resources and opportunities: Provide housing resources and information available through various City and regional in-person and virtual outlets in multiple languages based on U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey indicating languages spoken by Pleasanton residents. See Program 2.6. 6. Down Payment Assistance Loan Program: Provide down payment assistance loans for first-time homebuyers with incomes of up to 120 percent AMI. See Program 2.12. Advertise the availability of this program in City and Alameda County-wide virtual outlets and physical locations. 7. Local Universal Design Ordinance: Adopt a local Universal Design Ordinance applicable to single-family, duplex, and tri-plex projects. See Program 5.4. 8. Additional Housing Opportunities: Adopt an ordinance to zone certain parcels for up to 10 units of residential density if located in either a transit-rich area or an urban infill site consistent with GC §65913.5. The ordinance will include a map demarcating the parcels subject to this upzoning. The City will adopt this ordinance no later than December 2025. The objective is to provide opportunities for at least an additional 20 units through this zoning ordinance. Provide 200 housing opportunities affordable to lower income households by January 2031. Annually review overall progress and effectiveness in April and include information in annual report to HCD. If the City is not on track to meet its 200 affordable housing unit goal for the 8-year RHNA cycle by 2027 (i.e., 100 affordable units built or in process by 2027), the City will consider alternative land use strategies and make necessary amendments to zoning or other land use documents to facilitate a variety of housing choices, including but not limited to, strategies that encourage missing middle zoning (small-scale multi-unit projects up to four-plexes) in addition to lot splits / additional housing units as allowed by Ordinance No. 2228; adaptive reuse, and allowing additional ADUs and/or JADUs, within six months, if sufficient progress toward this quantified objective is not being met. 1. In 2023 the City received and is processing an application for construction of 48 townhome units and 9 affordable apartments on the site of a church at 3200 Hopyard Road. 2. Not yet started. 3. ADUs/SB9: See Program 1.9 regarding pre-approved ADU plans. Information on SB 9 is posted on the City's website. 4. Not yet started. 5. See program 2.6. 6. Ongoing through implementation of the Pleasanton First Time Homebuyer Assistance Program to eligible applicants. 7.See program 5.4. 8. Not yet started General Comments D 1 General Page 52 of 228