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lanuaiy 13. 2009 Page ,Accordingly, during the lifetime of the General Plan Update, a second RH.NA with more housing v units will be allocated to the City. 1 f the Housing Cap is not changed, the City will not meet the corner' R11NA. much less any future allocations, and the City will be in violation of state housing law. At the same time the General Plan 1 Ipdatc restricts residential development, it allows 35,000,000 square feet of commercial, office, industrial and other employment generating land development in the City.'' At buildout. this business development would support approximately 105,000 jobs, up from 61,100 current jobs!' This means that the General Plan will dramatically worse, what already is an unacceptable jobs +housing imbalance in the City, thereby exporting air pollut on, exacerbating already horrendous traffic jams, and promoting greenhouse gas cmiss ons. 18.1 Pleasanton is already a "job rich" community, with more than 1.6 jobs for every working reside,;.' As the City notes, "even if every resident staved in Pleasanton to work, there would he sul stantial in-commuting to fill the remaining ARACi estimates that in 2005, the City's 4100 businesses employed approximately. 58,110 full and part-time employees-' Apprc ximately 21% of these workers live in the City, another 29% live elsewhere in the fri- Valley arca and the remaining 50" /o commute from the greater outlying aria. The City has also acknowledged, The location of people's plate of work compared with their place of residence plays 'crucial role in traflic patterns. corrnnuting time, energy consumption. noise, and air pollut on, However. as asserted in the City's Economic Development Strategic Plan, "I Tihe City's ability to achieve a jobs/housing balance is constrained by Pleasanton's voter approved cap or. the development of housing units within the City[.) The General Plan Update suggests that the City's answer to the job/housing imbalance is to take a regional approach to housing. It states: "Pleasanton has adopted this arca -wide approitch to the jobs+housing issue and has taken significant steps to contribute its share ol'Tri- Vallei. housing while retaining its role as an employment center. however, the Cicltcral Plan Update includes a Subregional Planning Element that acknowledges the shortage of affordable housing in the entire Tri- Valley area.` The City notes that the housing shortfall originated from thc rapid growth in employment in the 1980's and 1990's and the fiscal disincentive created by state 1 igislautm to local governments to plan for new hou.sing.' Since that time, thc Plan states. "the c msequence of the imbalance between income and the alibrdability of housing is the V 9 GPa..2 -17 ao Id "'City if Pleasanton Economic Development Strategic Plan 11 6, 20071 at 4: see also GP at 1 -18 2-19 Id. DDE111 .n 3.1.1, citing ARAG, Prolrcnum 2007 plecrtnbrr (xY*). "GP a. 27, Id. x City if Pleasanton Economic Development Strategic Plan, supra. at 4. GP a: 2 -19. 1d al 1-1-7. tit 1