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Public Comments <br />Pleasanton Housing Commission <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Re: February 28 meeting, Housing Element Update <br />Dear Chairperson Galvan and Housing Commissioners, <br />ATTACHMENT 7 <br />February 25, 2022 <br />Thank you for the opportunity to comment on policies proposed for the 2023 2031 Housing <br />Element Update. Because you will be considering and discussing the same issues considered by <br />the Planning Commission at their meetings on February 9 and February 23, you will find my <br />comments to them attached below. <br />I am hopeful that the Council will adopt new policies that will improve the City's success in <br />providing housing opportunities for the severely underserved 60% of employees currently <br />working in Pleasanton who hold jobs paying below the Area Median Income. The lack of housing <br />close to their jobs requires long commutes, resulting in Pleasanton's responsibility for many tons <br />of GHG emissions. The City Council recently recognized this by adding a policy to our CAP 2.0 <br />that will measure Pleasanton's success in terms of increasing the number of local jobholders <br />(currently only 8%) who currently live here. <br />Judging from the declining numbers of local employees who also live in Pleasanton, from 27.3% <br />in 1990 to only 8% today, the tools available in our current Housing Element need an update that <br />will accomplish our "fair share" RHNA numbers and environmental goals. I believe that a <br />combination of inadequate LIHF fees designed to favor commercial development at the expense <br />of the environment and the workforce, deference to market rate housing developers' desire to <br />limit the number of deeply affordable units they include, and a persistent aversion to workforce <br />serving nonprofit development explain the trend. I sincerely hope that the Housing Commission <br />will recommend to the Council a focus on policies that will foster the investment of City resources <br />in nonprofit workforce housing. This is the only solution that will produce the numbers of <br />housing units needed, and the housing that will serve the "missing majority" of our local <br />workforce. <br />Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Thank you for your consideration. <br />Sincerely, <br />13ec 9 Dev.K;,y <br />925-- <br />925-- mobile <br />20 <br />