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their responsibilities in contributing to the attainment of the state housing goal, and • to assure that counties and cities will prepare and implement housing elements which, along with federal and state programs, will move toward attainment of the state housing goal. (Govt. Code § 65581.) In order to attain state housing goals, the Legislature prescribed that cities, including Pleasanton, maintain an inventory of land available for residential development (see Govt. Code § 65583.2), and that cities must make available for residential development sufficient suitable land to accommodate its share of regional housing needs. (See, e.g., Govt. Code § 65584.) Existing and projected regional housing needs are determined in the manner detailed in Government Code sections 65584.01 and 65584.02, and those regional needs are allocated within the various regions of the State by the council of local governments in each respective region. (See Govt. Code §§ 65584.04, 65584.05 and 65584.06.) Here that council of governments is the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). A city's obligations under the Housing Element Law require it to implement programs to zone or rezone land to establish adequate sites to accommodate its Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) and must timely adopt a housing element with an inventory of sites which can accommodate a city's share of the regional housing need. (See, e.g., Govt. Code §§ 65583, 65584.09, and 65588.) The RHNA allocated by ABAG to the City of Pleasanton in 2001 relating to the 1999 -2007 planning period is 5,059 units of housing. The RHNA allocated by 5