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RESOLUTION NO. 2024-069 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON APPROVING AMENDMENTS TO THE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS FOR HOUSING ELEMENT SITES (CASE NO. P24-0505) WHEREAS, on January 26, 2023, and with amendments in May, 2023, the City Council adopted Resolution 23-1360, adopting the Objective Design Standards (ODS) for Housing Element sites, which included among other standards, provisions with respect to affordable inclusionary units; and WHEREAS, California Government Code Section 65580(d) states that all cities have a responsibility to use the powers vested in them to facilitate the improvement and development of housing to make adequate provision for the housing needs of all economic segments of the community; and WHEREAS, in 2017, AB 1505 amended California Government Code Section 65850 and added Section 65850.1, to "reaffirm the authority of local jurisdictions to include within these inclusionary housing ordinances requirements related to the provision of rental units" and "does not modify or in any way change or affect the authority of local jurisdictions to require, as a condition of the development of residential units, that the development include a certain percentage of residential for-sale units affordable to, and o+ccupied by, households with incomes that do not exceed the limits for moderate-income, lower-income, very-low income, or extremely- low income households;" and WHEREAS, Program 2.1 of the 2023-2031 6th Cycle Housing Element calls for the City to continue to implement the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (IZO), and actively pursue strategies to improve its effectiveness in producing affordable housing in conjunction with new development, including study of potential changes to the proportion of inclusionary units required in multi-family developments, identification of a target mix of affordable units and unit size standards, and monitoring the effectiveness of the ordinance in delivering affordable units, with modifications to be evaluated to better achieve that goal; and WHEREAS, since its adoption, the IZO has resulted in the production of hundreds of below-market-rate housing units in Pleasanton and contributed a valuable source of funding to support the production of affordable housing and programs that preserve access to and support affordable housing for Pleasanton households; and WHEREAS, in January 2024, the City retained professional services firm Economic and Planning Systems (EPS) to provide analysis and recommendations with respect to modification to the inclusionary rate and target affordability limits, and in this particular respect to evaluate the feasibility of such changes with respect to the overall production of market-rate residential units; and WHEREAS, the City Council held public workshops on May 7, 2024 and August 20, 2024, to study potential amendments to the inclusionary rate and required affordability levels as stated in the IZO, and consider and provide direction on various potential amendments to the IZO; and WHEREAS, on September 11, 2024, the Planning Commission held a duly-noticed public hearing and considered the written agenda report, relevant exhibits, direction from City Council and recommendations from City staff concerning this application, and received testimony from