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1 <br />ATTACHMENT 2 <br /> RESOLUTION NO. 2024-__ <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON <br />APPROVING AMENDMENTS TO THE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS FOR <br />HOUSING ELEMENT SITES (CASE NO. P24-0505) <br />WHEREAS, on January 26, 2023, and with amendments in May, 2023, the City <br />Council adopted Resolution 23-1360, adopting the Objective Design Standards (ODS) <br />for Housing Element sites, which included among other standards, provisions with <br />respect to affordable inclusionary units; and <br />WHEREAS, California Government Code Section 65580(d) states that all cities <br />have a responsibility to use the powers vested in them to facilitate the improvement and <br />development of housing to make adequate provision for the housing needs of all <br />economic segments of the community; and <br />WHEREAS, in 2017, AB 1505 amended California Government Code Section <br />65850 and added Section 65850.1, to "reaffirm the authority of local jurisdictions to <br />include within these inclusionary housing ordinances requirements related to the <br />provision of rental units" and "does not modify or in any way change or affect the <br />authority of local jurisdictions to require, as a condition of the development of residential <br />units, that the development include a certain percentage of residential for -sale units <br />affordable to, and occupied by, households with incomes that do not exceed the limits <br />for moderate-income, lower-income, very-low income, or extremely-low income <br />households;" and <br />WHEREAS, Program 2.1 of the 2023-2031 6th Cycle Housing Element calls for <br />the City to continue to implement the Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance (IZO), and actively <br />pursue strategies to improve its effectiveness in producing affordable housing in <br />conjunction with new development, including study of potential changes to the <br />proportion of inclusionary units required in multi-family developments, identification of a <br />target mix of affordable units and unit size standards, and monitoring the effectiveness <br />of the ordinance in delivering affordable units, with modifications to be evaluated to <br />better achieve that goal; and <br />WHEREAS, since its adoption, the IZOhas resulted in the production of hundreds <br />of below-market-rate housing units in Pleasanton and contributed a valuable source of <br />funding to support the production of affordable housing and programs that preserve <br />access to and support affordable housing for Pleasanton households; and <br />WHEREAS, in January 2024, the City retained professional services firm <br />Economic and Planning Systems (EPS) to provide analysis and recommendations with <br />respect to modification to the inclusionary rate and target affordability limits, and in this <br />particular respect to evaluate the feasibility of such changes with respect to the overall <br />production of market-rate residential units; and <br />Page 79 of 658