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As part of General Plan Update Memo No. 1 (January 19, 2004): Land Use Overview, staff provided the City Council and the Planning Commission with several tables related to existing residential development, approved residential projects, and future potential units assumed on land with no existing planning entitlements. Table I.c. of Memo no. 1, attached, summarized these numbers for all land within the City's Planning Area Boundary. The Planning Area Boundary describes an area larger than the City limits, the Urban Growth Boundary, and the Sphere of Influence. The Planning Area Boundary encompasses incorporated and unincorporated territory "bearing a relation to the city's planning" according to State of California General Plan Guidelines (2003). It is important to use numbers related to the Planning Area Boundary rather than City limits in order to make a comparison to the voter-approved housing cap of 29,000 units that is a limit on the number of housing units within the Planning Area. The "Total Dwelling Units At Build-ont" number is the sum of four numbers: · Units Built (based on final inspections and occupancy permits) · Units Under Construction (based on building permits issued but not finaled) · Approved Units (based on Planning approvals, not counting those units in the construction stage) · Potential Future Units (based on vacant and underutilized parcels with no planning entitlements and calculated using the mid-point of the General Plan residential density range) For the purposes of defining a "housing unit" under the housing cap, it is defined as a dwelling unit which has one or more rooms and a single kitchen. It does not include housing with any aspect of congregate care (such as a senior assisted care facility which includes some meals), second dwelling units, or any group housing located on commercially-designated property. Table 7 below compares existing and buildout residential development numbers as calculated for January 1, 2004 and January 1, 2005. As of January 1, 2005, there were 25,459 dwelling units. The remaining "capacity" under the cap over and above the units that are assumed to be developed under the 1996 General Plan is estimated at 1,685 units. As of today, however, "existing units" currently stand at around 25,500, and the "total dwelling units at buildout" number is likely to remain approximately the same unless projects are approved at substantially higher or lower than the assumed residential mid-point. Of course, this number will likely change with the new Land Use Map which the Council will approve with the General Plan Update. SR 05:135 Page 7