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• place limits on the Pleasanton City Council and City government, prohibiting them from permitting the construction of more than 29,000 housing units from 1996 until the end of time. The only exception permitted by the Measure is that it may be amended, but only by a vote of the people.' It is the continuing validity of this housing cap that is one of the subjects of this action. Pleasanton Municipal Code Chapter 17.36, entitled Growth Management Program, includes section 17.36.060, which places annual limits on building permits for the construction of new housing units. This provision of the Pleasanton Municipal Code was modified about a month and a half before the hearing of the present Petition to allow an exception to the maximum number of building permits rule allowing an increase to the maximum amount, but only if the City is obligated to do so in order to meet its Regional Housing Needs'Allocation ( "RHNA "). In 2003 the City of Pleasanton adopted its current Housing Element of the General Plan. Within that plan was an acknowledgment that "the amount of units projected from [all off the City's residentially owned land would be short of the number required require to meet the city's aggregate share of regional needs...." (Housing Element, p. 35.) Also in that Housing Element is a plan to study (within 1 The measure was amended by Measures PP and QQ in 2008 by public vote. Those measures reaffirmed the 29,000 units housing cap, reaffirmed that the City Council had no discretion to allow any waiver to the housing cap, and excluded in -law units and extended -stay motel rooms from the housing cap. 3