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The yearly units allowed to be built in an affordable housing project, when added to the units in all other projects, may exceed the annual maximum limitation established in Section 17.36.060(A) of this chapter. (2) The use of up to four succeeding years' suballocations shall be allowed only if there are units available in the affordable housing suballocation for the initial year for which the approval is sought. The initial year for the affordable housing suballocation, pursuant to Section 17.36.070(B)(I) of this chapter, is 2001. No new affordable housing project shall be approved for any year which has had that year's annual suballocation totally allocated to another project except where the approval is necessary for the city to meet its affordable housing regional housing needs and the project meets the community's goals and policies, has mitigated its impacts and can be served with infrastructure and services consistent with city policies. 2. Approval Process. a. Prior Discretionary Project Approval Necessary. The qualifying project should normally have re- ceived planned unit development plan approval or design review approval prior to requesting growth management approval; however, a project may be considered for an allocation prior to such approval if sufficient information is presented to the city council for it to be able to determine the nature of the project, its affordability component, and its required allocation. b. Growth Management Approval. Following its determination that a proposed project is a qualifying affordable housing project and that there are units available in the affordable housing suballocation to allocate to it, the city council, at its discretion, may grant an allocation to the project for such year or years as it deems necessary to allow construction of the project consistent with city growth manage- ment policies. The city may exercise its discretion in determining both the size of a qualifying project as well as its phasing. The council approval shall be in the form of an affordable housing agreement. B. Major Project. A major project developer must receive a specific allocation for the number of units and years in which its project's units will be built. This allocation must be made from the suballocation for major projects. I. Availability of Building Permits to Major Projects. 17.36.080 Approval procedures. The procedures which are prerequisites for obtaining a building permit are set forth in this section for each cate- gory of project. A. Affordable Housing Project. A qualifying project developer must first receive a specific allocation for the number of units and years in which the units shall be built from the affordable housing project suballocation established in Section 17.36.070(B)(1) of this chapter. 1. Availability of Building Permits to Affordable projects. a. Initial Suballocation and Carry-Over. The affordable housing project suballocation shall be initially available in the year it first appears. If not used, or partially used, the unused units shall be added to the following year's affordable housing suballocation, and all unused units shall continue to carry over to succeeding years in the event they are not fully used. b. Use of Future Years' Suballocations. In addition to utilizing the existing year's suballocation (includ- ing any units carried over from prior years), a qualifying project developer may use up to four suc- ceeding years' suballocations as described below. 467 b. The city council may adjust the suballocation of units among the "major project" and "first -come, first- served project" categories to reflect actual or projected activity among these two categories. Such a reallocation may be made by the council at the annual review or a periodic review of the growth management program as described in Section 17.36.050 of this chapter. (Ord. 1999 § I, 2009; Ord. 1729 § 2, 1997) (1 17.36.080 (Pleasanton Supp. No. 3, 1 -10)