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units with more bedrooms than are.usually constructed within market rate projects, such as three bedroom apartments. The elderly require smaller, easy to maintain housing units which are accessible to social and medical care facilities, for example the City sponsored senior citizen complex recently constructed near City Hall. Female headed households often require lower income or subsidized housing which is accessible to childcare facilities. Disabled households typically require special design features such as wheelchair ramps and large bathrooms to be included within the housing unit. Because of Pleasanton's higher than average income, many of the households shown in Table IV-10 do not have the same housing problems as lower income households. As discussed previously, the City has made substantial progress in addressing lower income housing needs which should help the special needs of disabled, elderly, large family and female headed households. In addition, the City recently built a large housing project for the elderly, has approved an intermediate care/retirement hotel complex, has designated sites for an emergency shelter and transitional housing for the homeless, and provides numerous programs to assist other households with special needs. Since 1986, the City has commissioned a special study of human service needs as part of a comprehensive public facilities master plan. Information generated by that study together with the results of the 1990 Census will enable the City to target housing programs specifically designed for special need households. Housing Element Policy 21 includes specific objectives for special need households through 1995 and to buildout of the General Plan. Sites Available for the Production of Housinq In 1986, the City of Pleasanton inventoried all underdeveloped and vacant p&rcels within the entire 27,000 acre Planning Area (9), established a 100-member citizens' committee to redesignate or increase densities on potential residential parcels, and effectively increased the holding capacity of the existing Planning Area by about 5,500 housing units. Since 1986, the City has updated this land inventory, the results of which are summarized in Tables IV-ii, 14, and 15. These tables indicated that the City has zoned more than enough residential land at appropriate densities to meet and exceed its share of regional needs through 1995. A comparison of residential units approved since 1988 and the City's share of regional need is contained in Table IV-6. IV-12