Planning Commission meeting agenda packet 7-9-25

City of Pleasanton—Vineyard Avenue Residential Project Project Description 15183 Consistency Checklist 8 2.3 - Project Background and Previous Environmental Review 2.3.1 - General Plan Housing Element Concurrent with adoption of the Housing Element Update on January 23, 2023, the City Council also adopted the necessary General Plan amendments to allow residential development at the prescribed density on the various potential housing sites. These sites are included as Housing Element Sites Overlay in the General Plan Land Use Map and development on the sites must comply with the site-specific densities set forth in the Housing Element. These sites would be subject to the applicable design standards established by the City with the intent of ensuring well-designed and attractive projects that minimize aesthetics impacts. The City has adopted Objective Design Standards (ODS) to implement development consistent with the Housing Element, applicable to each of the potential sites for housing which, among other components, include standards that regulate height, setbacks massing, site planning, lighting, landscaping and building design to ensure that projects will be compatible with their surroundings, attractively designed and landscaped, and minimize impact to aesthetic resources. Each project would be required to comply with the adopted ODS. The City’s Housing Element Update and the associated EIR anticipated the project site to be built out with residential uses under the HEO at a density of three to four du/ac, for a total unit count between 21 and 28 units. 2.3.2 - Housing Element Update Final Environmental Impact Report The City prepared a Program EIR for the Housing Element and related General Plan amendments and certified the Housing Element Update FEIR on January 26, 2023. The Housing Element Update FEIR identified significant environmental effects that could result from implementation of the Housing Element as well as ways the impacts could be reduced to less than significant through implementation of applicable regulations and mitigation measures. It also identified significant and unavoidable environmental impacts related to vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and water supply and adopted a Statement of Overriding Considerations for each significant and unavoidable impact prior to approving the project. The Housing Element Update FEIR’s conclusions are summarized in Section 4 of this document. 2.4 - Project Characteristics The following provides a description of the proposed project components.