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City of San Leandro Housing Element Update (2015-2023) Project Initial Study and Environmental Checklist Leandro's 2014 — 2022 RHNA has been determined to be a total of 2,287 units, and Table 1 shows San Leandro's allocation distributed among different income levels. TABLE 1 SAN LEANDRO'S REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS ALLOCATION (RHNA) Income Level Units Very Low (households earning less than 50% of Area Median Income) 504 Low (households earning between 50% and 80% of Area Median Income) 270 Moderate (households earning more than 120% of Area Median Income) 352 Above Moderate (households earning more than 120 % of Area Median Income) 1,161 TOTAL 2,287 Source: City of San Leandro, 2014. 3. Identification of Housing Sites The Draft Housing Element discusses a wide variety of ways in which the City will accommodate local hous- ing needs from 2015-2023. The primary strategy involves identifying housing sites in the city where capacity for additional housing is physically available and permitted. California law does not require cities to build housing, but it does require communities to facilitate new housing production to meet the RHNA through appropriate zoning that allows for the development of the units. The City must prove that they have provided adequate land by identifying sites that are appropriately zoned for housing, including sites that are zoned densely enough to produce adequate affordable housing, are sufficient in size, and are realistically able to be built on. In total, 91 sites are identified as potential housing opportunity sites, and three housing develop- ments have already been approved,5 as shown in Table 2. A complete list of sites can be found in Appendix A of the Draft Housing Element. The location of the 91 sites is shown on Figures 3 and 4. As shown in Table 2, the identified sites, including the committed sites, would allow the City to meet its RHNA with a total capacity of 2,347 units, resulting in a surplus of 60 units above the RHNA. No rezoning or changes to General Plan designations would be required to achieve this yield; the housing sites are already planned and zoned to accommodate the level of development shown in Table 2. 5 Committed units include the Cornerstone Apartments, Aurora Cottages, and 2450 Washington Avenue, developments which have been fully entitled and expected to be constructed in the early part of the planning period. These approved projects have already completed project -specific environmental review pursuant to CEQA and are not evaluated in this Initial Study.