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The Planned Unit Development (PUD) zone can accommodate increases in density. Also, "density bonuses" are given if non-market-rate housing is constructed. The City places no restrictions on mobile or factory-built homes other than those placed on conventional housing. In short, zomng controls are not a constraint to (and indeed, act to encourage) the development of affordable housing in Pleasanton. b. Commercial/Business Park/Industrial Land Use Redesignations to Residential Land Use Program 6.4 states that Pleasanton will "generally discourage the redesignation of commercial, business park, and industrial land to residential use, except for the area surrounding the East Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station." HCD has indicated that "given the limited supply of residential land in Pleasanton, particularly high-density land, this program has the potential to constrain the development of needed housing in Pleasanton" and that this program should be analyzed as a governmental constraint. Nearly all of the remaining vacant commercial, business park, and industrial parcels of land in Pleasanton are either located within existing business parks, or on land bordering sand and gravel mining operations. The lots within business parks are typically bordered by existing commercial/office/or industrial development and served by existing infrastructure which was designed to accommodate non-residential uses. In addition, land prices are very high due to close freeway proximity and the high level of infrastructure. These lots would not be appropriate for redesignations to residential. Redesignations would in most cases by highly incompatible with existing surrounding development from both land use and safety standpoints (traffic, trucks, hazardous materials, etc. ). The redesignation of industrial land next to the sand and gravel mining operations to residential would also be highly incompatible with the existing surrounding uses. Land use and safety issues here would be even more serious. The City feels that generally discouraging the redesignation of existing Commercial, Business Park, and Industrial land to residential is reasonable and appropriate. In most cases, redesignations would create substantial land use conflicts and safety problems. In selected cases where redesignations may be appropriate, the General Plan would permit, and various policies and programs would encourage them to occur. The City therefore feels that Land Use Program 6.4 does not present a governmental constraint to housing.