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6th Cycle Program 6.1: Develop and adopt Objective Design <br />and Development Standards for each of the sites zoned for <br />densities above 30 dwelling units per acre, including <br />appropriate height limits, Floor Area Ratio, setbacks, <br />massing, open space and parking requirements, and approval <br />criteria (i.e., findings for approval) to ensure projects can <br />accomplish their assigned densities, while mitigating potential <br />incompatibilities between those higher density projects and <br />adjacent uses, for example by providing for buffers or <br />stepping heights between existing lower-density and new <br />higher density buildings. <br />Consistency with state law, including SB35 <br />and SB330 By March 2023 <br />Objective Design Standards for all high density sites and zoning districts were <br />adopted January 2023 and updated in May 2023. The City is reviewing the standards <br />to update for ease of use, applicability, and consistency with current State law. <br />6th Cycle Program 6.2: Implement the Climate Action Plan’s <br />(CAP 2.0) applicable actions related to new residential <br />construction, improving residential water and energy <br />efficiency, and reducing VMTs associated with new units <br />including the following: P1 - All Electric Reach Code, P2 - <br />Existing Building Electrification Plan, P4 - Solar and Storage <br />on New Construction, P5 - Zero Emissions Infrastructure, P8 - <br />Improve Bicycle Amenities, P9 - Bicycle Rack Incentive <br />Program, P10 - Increase Transit Ridership, P11 - Promote <br />LEED Neighborhood Development, P15 - Water Efficiency <br />Retrofits, S1 - Refrigerant Management, S2 - Energy <br />Efficiency Upgrades, and S6 - Embodied Carbon Reduction <br />Plan. <br />Improve residential energy efficiency and <br />reduce VMT's associated with new units. Ongoing Implementing CAP 2.0 programs continues to be a part of the City's workplan. Staff <br />and the Energy and Environment Commission continue to progress implementation. <br />6th Cycle Program 6.3: Seek out and utilize available energy <br />efficiency upgrade program funding for low-interest loans to <br />support alternative energy usage and/or significant water <br />conservation systems in exchange for securing new and/or <br />existing rental housing units affordable to very low- and low- <br />income households. <br />Support energy efficiency and the <br />production of more low-income homes. Ongoing <br />The City seeks out funding opportunities for energy efficieny upgrade loans. There are <br />currently no energy efficiency upgrade loans that the City can provide to rental <br />property owners.