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r. If such units were to be counted as housing units and applied towards the cap, fewer conventional housing units would be available to be built under the cap than are now anticipated. Regarding secottd units, they would not be counted due to the provision of State law that mandates that second units shall ± of be counted as housing units for the purposes of any policy to limit residential growth. Regarding assisted living facilities, the City's historical practice has been to consider such facilities as commercial uses and therefore not counted as "housing units" towards the housing cap. is This has been the practice because these facilities have been generally approved in commercially caned areas, have characteristics of commercial facilities (e.g., employees, provision of services for the elderly, central dining, payment of commercial impact fees), and garerally do not create the same type of impacts on the community as do residential developmema. Examples of this include Eden Villa (the assisted living facility on Mohr Avenue) and the City's Parlcview Assisted Living Facility (on Valley Ave.). Notwithstanding these factors, the City Council has previously indicated that if the Continuing Life Care (CLC) proposal on Staples Ranch were to be approved, the City may count 240 (of the proposed 63~ assisted living units toward the housing cap, based on a formula that considers a number of impacts of such a facility on the community. If the Council, in talring action on the CLC project, were to wont the entire number of assisted living amts (63~ as "housing units" towards the housing cap, then it would further reduce the number of wnvartional housing units that could be developed elsewhere in the City under the housing cap by 396.16 4.2. Egect of Initiative on Consistency of General Plea sad any 3peciifc Plain A General Plaa has bear called the 'constitution' for developmart within a city. As with any tow policies added to a General Plan, these new policies are required by State law to be wnsistart with the existing policies, programs and element within the General Plan. To the extent that Initiative's new General Plan policies conflict with policies in Specific Plana, the Specific Plan policies could not be implemented and would need to be revised to be consistent with the new Genera( Plan policies. " See Goveroment Code 463!32.2 (a) (2). Is Eves if it wero debrmined that assisted Hviog unit arc housing unit for purposes of the homin` ~ proviously approved assisted living unit would not be counted towards the bossing cap, sirKe inidatlvas (a any other poUcy or ordinance) aro not usually applied retroactively, unless specifically stated As of January 21109, these was a potential far 2,733 uoih left under the housin` cap, Reducirr` thin by 240 unit for CLC would leave 2,313; redtrein` $ instead by the toll 63ti unit for CLC would leave 2, l 19 unit. Moreover, any of these number would be reduced by tht number of buildins permit that have bees issued between January 2007 and now.