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Housing Constraints Draft Housing Element 3-49 Storm Drainage The City of San Leandro Department of Public Works owns and maintains 175 miles of storm drainage conduits. The City’s storm drain system feeds into a more extensive system owned and operated by the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District. This system includes the lower reaches of San Leandro and San Lorenzo Creeks and several channels extending into San Leandro neighborhoods west of I-880.47 New development or redevelopment projects are required to construct adequately sized storm drainage systems to convey on-site stormwater runoff to existing storm drain facilities. The City of San Leandro requires as a standard condition of approval that developers verify that on-site and off- site drainage facilities can accommodate increased stormwater flows. In addition to building and extending on-site storm drainage infrastructure, project applicants are required to pay for improvements to the storm drain system, if necessary, to accommodate increased flows from the development. 3.5 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing In 2018, the California State Legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 686 to expand upon the fair housing requirements and protections outlined in the Fair Employment and Housing Act. The law requires all State and local public agencies to facilitate deliberate action to explicitly address, combat, and relieve disparities resulting from past patterns of segregation to foster more inclusive communities. AB 686 created new requirements that apply to all housing elements due for revision on or after January 1, 2021. The passage of AB 686 protects the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing within State law. AB 686 defined “affirmatively further fair housing” to mean “taking meaningful actions, in addition to combating discrimination, that overcome patterns of segregation and foster inclusive communities free from barriers that restrict access to opportunity based on protected characteristics.” Chapter 5 of the Housing Element contains the full AFFH analysis for San Leandro, including a review of fair housing issues; housing access and mobility for minority, low-income, and special needs groups; and socioeconomic differences among neighborhoods. The following is a summary of the AFFH analysis: Race, Ethnicity, and Income Despite a historic pattern of exclusion of non-white populations from housing access, San Leandro is now an ethnically diverse city with no single predominant ethnic group. However, white residents are slightly more prevalent in northeastern San Leandro, Hispanic/Latino residents are slightly more prevalent in north-central and northwestern San Leandro, and Asian American residents are slightly more prevalent in southern central and southwestern San Leandro.  San Leandro does not contain any racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty according to the definition from HUD.  The northwestern area of San Leandro (in the Davis West, Eastshore, and Downtown neighborhoods) has lower economic outcome scores and a higher share of lower and moderate income (LMI) populations. LMI areas tend to have higher degrees of single-parent, female- headed households, and persons with disabilities than other areas of the city. 47 San Leandro Environmental Hazards Element https://www.sanleandro.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=26256