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Pleasanton Comprehensive Fee Update and Nexus Study November 2024 Primary Sources To estimate the fee, EPS relied on numerous sources of data, including the following: • JobsEQ, which is a software tool that compiles industry and wage occupation data for 2023 from a variety of sources, including U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Center of Education Statistics, and others. • State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) annual income limits for Alameda County, 2024 (Appendix Table C-1) • U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2018- 2022) In addition, EPS sought input from City of Pleasanton staff regarding affordability levels and recently developed affordable housing projects. Data from recent Pleasanton developments and land transactions were combined with information collected from various market-rate and affordable housing developers to estimate appropriate development cost assumptions for use in Pleasanton. These and other data sources are identified on the tables provided throughout this report. Land Use Categories The linkage fee program uses the same land use categories as the Capital Facilities and Transportation fees. While most land use categories are unique to a particular type of building, others may be interchangeable as tenants often shift between building types (e.g., businesses located in industrial space moving to office space). The commercial land uses analyzed in this study, along with a description of the types of businesses that often locate in each category, are presented in Appendix Table D-1. In general, each land use category is intended to be associated with a particular type of building or land use, to which the fees can be applied. This analysis bases its employment projections on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes associated with the most typical tenants for each land use category. Estimates of New Worker Households The following section details the methodology for estimating the distribution of household income levels for new worker households in the city, and the number of these households that will be generated by new development in each commercial land use category. Occupational Category and Wage Distribution The first step in determining the number of new worker households requiring affordable residential units is to associate each land use type with occupational categories and the wage distribution within those categories. This estimate included the following analytical steps: • EPS used JobsEQ to calculate the proportion of occupations likely to be represented under each land use category in the Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley 28