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Ms. Fox recalled a table in the Housing Element that dealt with certain areas in the Hacienda Business Park with current commercial property and discussion that these could be converted to residential units in the future. When staff refers to rezoning the City is committed to do, does that mean vacant land or does it also include that commemial property in Hacienda Business Park? Mr. Iserson said that is an example of something that could be rezoned to provide additional residential units. Ms. Roberts asked if the area around the BART station was identified as residential and does that mean it can't be used to achieve the additional units? Mr. Iserson said yes. The City must rezone thirty acres of land. That could include areas identified in the Housing Element, but if the City wanted to transfer density or limit density in one area of town and make it up in Hacienda, it would have to be over and above the area of land already set forth in the Housing Element. Mr. Sullivan believed there was another way to look at the chart on page 8 of the staff report regarding dwelling units. There were 26,437 units built or approved to be built. The 878 units have no entitlements or approvals for construction. It seemed to him the starting point should be 26,437. The 878 should be added to the 1,685, which equals 25,063. There are 25,063 units to deal with, not 1,600. Mr. Iserson said that number is frozen, so to speak, since it is in the General Plan, but Council has discretion on where the units will be built. As of January 2004, one would review the land use designation, take the midpoint and calculate the number of units for a particular site. The State is saying that number of units must be built. It may not be on a particular site, but if the General Plan is revised, it must be shown that that number of units can be built somewhere else. Mr. Arkin hypothesized a parcel zoned at five units per acre and there is a desire to reallocated approved units from another side to the five-acre site. Could the five-acre site be rezoned to 20 units per acre and be in compliance? Mr. Iserson said yes, that could be done as part of this update process. Mr. Sullivan said units on the edge of the city could be reduced and transferred to another place such as near the BART station. Ms. Fox asked if the Housing Element required a certain time frame within which land must be set aside for residential development, or could the city deal with it 25-30 years in the future, when land became available for residential development, such as the DSRSD location. Mr. Iserson said that could be changed in the Land Use Element of the General Plan. The Housing Element is based on five-year intervals. That doesn't mean units have to be built within five years, but the City must demonstrate that the land is available for development and infrastructure and services can be available. Joint Workshop City Council and Planning Commission 4 05/24/05