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an initial list of ranked sites has been put together it will be presented to both commissions and City Council. Ms. Hagen encouraged people to stay informed by checking the Housing Element section of the city's website. Chairperson Galvin thanked Ms. Hagen for her presentation and asked commissioners for their questions and comments. Commissioner Kiziloglu thanked staff for the great presentation and information provided. She commented on the increased number of homeless individuals and home affordability and discussed the recent signing by Governor Newsom of SB9 and 10 and whether this would affect the Housing Element. Ms. Clark commented on the recent adoption of SB9, a bill that will allow for subdividing of property as well as construction of up to two units on any single-family residential parcel. She indicated that it will be interesting to see how many jurisdictions reflect this increase in unit production in their Housing Element. Ms. Clark noted that no guidance from the state has been received on this bill, and SB10 is a voluntary bill that will allow cities to adopt zoning for up to 10 units on parcels. City staff is carefully monitoring both bills. Commissioner Soby questioned if passed into law, would these bills need to be considered when the city completes an analysis of capacity within properties that already have existing residential zoning. Ms. Clark provided comment and noted that there is much conjecture on what is going to happen and provided information from a recent Turner Center report that concluded there would be modest uptake because of barriers and obstacles and guidance from the state will be required. Commissioner Soby discussed with Ms. Clark the amount of local control that will be allowed. Ms. Clark felt local control would be limited but commented on city design standards that might be applied with other things being governed by what the state will allow, and the city not allowed the discretion of being able to approve or disapprove a project. Commissioner Kiziloglu questioned how the population of Pleasanton would feel about Sacramento changes that would affect the current "Community of Character" feeling. She felt there was going to be problems with the community accepting these changes especially since housing was a key factor. Ms. Clark felt that the state was addressing this for the city by stating it is something that must be allowed, especially if S139 is signed into law by the governor and takes discretion out of the hands of communities. Commissioner Kiziloglu stated that the bill had been signed today by the governor. Commissioner Duggan commented on SB9 and SB10 and noted that S139 seems to tie in with the number of household occupants indicated in the report and thought splitting residential lots into smaller units should be heavily considered. She felt taking into consideration the lot and unit size would be necessary. Commissioner Duggan was sad to see the significant increase in the number of homeless in the city and was unsure what the solution should be but had noticed that many of these individuals were being referred out of Pleasanton. She felt working on a solution for this was something that needed to be considered. Ms. Clark noted that the 120 number of homeless was an estimate because a field trip to identify these people had not been conducted. Chairperson Galvin noted the number was like what service providers had been reporting, and he had heard about people sleeping in cars and on the couch of a friend. Commissioner Fischer thanked staff for the detailed report on demographics, jobs, and household occupancies and indicated she was trying to understand what the city's goal was because she thought a mandate had already been given by the state broken into four categories pertaining to number of units the city has. She asked if the assessment was being done to prove what is needed or if it is something the state was requiring so they receive data. Ms. Clark advised that the state requires that the city complete this detailed local evaluation on housing needs and splitting the information into Housing Commission September 16, 2021 Page 5 of 9