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SAN LEANDRO PLANNING COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING City Council Chambers, First Floor 835 East 14th Street San Leandro, California 94577 7:00 p.m. Regular Meeting September 11, 2014 Item 1: Roll Call Present: Planning Commissioners Esther Collier (District 6); Tom Fitzsimons (District 5); Kevin Leichner (District 1); Kai Leung (District 4); Scott Rennie (At Large); Vice Chair Ed Hernandez (District 2). Absent: Chair Denise Abero (District 3). Staff: Tom Liao, Secretary to the Planning Commission and Deputy Community Development Director; Kit Faubion, Assistant City Attorney; Larry Ornellas, Facilities Coordinator; Barbara Templeton, Recording Secretary. Item 7A: Public Hearings Review of 2015-2023 Housing Element Update Working Draft Referring to his PowerPoint presentation, Barry Miller covered progress to date on the Housing Element for the 2015-2023 cycle. The Working Draft, prepared in compliance with a state mandate for every city to have a Housing Element as part of every city’s General Plan, is bu ilt on the San Leandro Housing Element that was certified in 2010, and after providing some background on the process and context, Mr. Miller focused his comments on the goals, policies and actions [in Chapter 6] that differed from the existing Housing Element. In addition to working on the Housing Element, the City is also in the early stages of a two -year process of updating the overall San Leandro General Plan, of which it is a part. Over the coming months, the General Plan Update will address land use, transportation, open-space conservation, seismic safety, historic resources and other issues. It is in the Housing Element that the City articulates policies for the conservation of existing housing and production of additional housing, with emphasis on affordable housing and housing for people with special needs. Much of the material in the Housing Element is state -prescribed, whereas other elements of any city’s General Plan is more locally driven. Whereas the General Plan overall looks 20 years into the future, the Housing Element focuses on the next eight years. The Housing Element needs to show the state that San Leandro is capable of accommodating 2,287 housing units across various income levels over that period, not by actually constructing them but by having the land and programs available to facilitate construction by private and nonprofit sectors. The so-called Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), assigned by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), is up from 1,630 units from the current Housing Element. It is split into four income categories:  Very low income 504