Planning Commission Agenda Packet 09092026

City of Pleasanton—Additional Housing Sites Rezonings Project CEQA Guidelines Section 15164 Addendum Addendum 115 Future development would be consistent with the Housing Element, Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance, and other City policies, contributing toward the City’s RHNA. As stated in Section 2, Project Description, the 2023-2031 Housing Element was adopted subsequent to certifying the City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th) Cycle Housing Element Update Program Environmental Impact Report (State Clearinghouse No. 2022040091, Housing Element Update FEIR, Resolution No. 23-1357) which evaluated the development of a maximum of 7,787 residential units across the city. However, five of the sites analyzed as part of the certified Housing Element Update FEIR were ultimately removed from consideration before the Housing Element Update was approved. Despite their removal from the approved Housing Element Update, the Housing Element Update FEIR included a comprehensive analysis of these five sites, which account for a combined potential buildout of 1,732 units, 294 units more than the net new units proposed herein. As such, related growth has been previous analyzed as part of the greater General Plan environmental analyses. The General Plan’s land use pattern emphasizes compact, mixed-use, and infill development near transit, employment centers, and existing neighborhoods, reducing pressure for outward expansion and supporting efficient provision of services. Policies promoting transit-oriented development, reuse of underutilized parcels, and clustering of housing near commercial and transportation hubs help ensure orderly, logical growth. With these growth-management tools, infrastructure planning requirements, and land use policies in place, population and housing increases associated with General Plan buildout would result in less than significant impacts. Proposed Project Analysis and Conclusion Population growth associated with the proposed project would be consistent with regional and local growth projections. Plan Bay Area 2050 identifies the City as part of Superdistrict 15 (East Alameda County), which is forecast to accommodate substantial household growth through 2050 (approximately 60,000 new households). The proposed project's net increase of 1,438 units would fall within the range of growth anticipated by regional planning documents and would not represent unplanned population growth. Accordingly, the proposed project would not induce population growth beyond that contemplated by the regional forecasts. Furthermore, population growth associated with the proposed project continues to fall within the City’s RHNA.