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EXHIBIT A NOTICE OF INTENT TO ADOPT A O~ SQ NEGATIVE DECLARATION v ~ ~ A NOTICE, PURSUANT TO THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT OF 1970, AS AMENDED (PUBLIC RESOURCES ;ca ~~~~ CODE 21,000 ET SEQ.), THAT THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO'S 'APO ~~~~~ HOUSING ELEMENT WILL NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IlVIPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT. Project Title: City of San Leandro Housing Element Update (File # GPA 2002-001) Project Description: The proposed Housing Element would replace the 19$9 Housing Element and establish new policies and actions addressing housing conservation and construction in San Leandro. The Element includes a strategy to fulfill the City's Regional Housing Needs Allocation of 870 housing units for the period January 1, 1999 through June 30, 200b (its "fair share assignment"). Adoption of the updated element constitutes an amendment to the San Leandro General Plan. The major components of the Housing Element are a Needs Assessment, an Analysis of Constraints and Resources, and a Housing Plan. The Needs Assessment describes housing, economic and demographic conditions in San Leandro to assess the demand for housing for various income groups and persons with special needs. The Constraints and Resources Analysis identifies potential constraints to housing production in the City and identifies potential sites for new housing construction. This analysis indicates that the City has sufficient land to accommodate its fair share assignment, but must take a number of actions to facilitate construction. The Housing Plan includes guiding goals, policies, specific implementing actions and quantified objectives through the end of the planning period. The Housing Element seeks to maintain and improve San Leandro' neighborhoods and existing housing resources by enforcing housing codes, providing rehabilitation assistance to lower income homeowners, maintaining infrastructure, preserving "at risk" housing units, and creating a better regulatory environment to make housing development easier. It also recommends producing new housing by adopting land use standards that facilitate housing production, addressing infrastructure constraints and improving infrastructure capacity, and developing incentives to promote higher density housing along major transit corridors and around transit facilities such as the BART stations. The Element recommends that San Leandro diversify its housing stock and provide new housing opportunities for persons with special needs, such as the elderly and disabled. A variety of financing and regulatory techniques are recommended to produce new affordable units. A series of policies is presented to encourage affordable housing within new development, including: (1) streamlining permit review requirements, (2) City of San Leandro Housing Element Update Negative Declaration