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Housing Resources Draft Housing Element 4-3 4.2.1 Planned and Approved Projects Housing units that have received their planning entitlements or that have secured their building permits but have not yet completed construction (“pipeline projects”) can be used in the Opportunity Sites Inventory towards meeting the City’s RHNA for the 6th Cycle Housing Element. These units can count towards the RHNA based on their estimated affordability levels when they were approved or permitted. “Pipeline Projects” can be credited towards the City’s 6th Cycle RHNA goals only if the City can demonstrate that the units will be completed (i.e.: “finaled” building permit or that have received their Certificate of Occupancy) in the RHNA “Planning Period” that runs from June 30, 2022 to December 31, 2030. Affordability (the income category in which the units are counted) is based on the actual or projected sale prices or rent levels, and that has deed restrictions recorded on the title of the property or uses other accepted mechanisms under State law that establishes affordability of the units. Multifamily or single-family developments that use density bonuses, the inclusionary housing ordinance, or public subsidies and have a regulatory agreement recorded on the property title that restrict rents or sales prices to below-market rate prices can be counted as accommodating the construction of housing affordable to households in the various income categories identified in Table 41 above. The City may conduct an alternative method to count housing units constructed to affordability levels below 120 percent AMI if it can produce a market study with a methodology acceptable to CA Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) (Government Code Section 65583.1(d)). Table 4.2 identifies the approved or pending projects that are credited towards meeting the City’s RHNA. The City can count 2,535 housing units towards the RHNA with planned and approved projects. The locations of these projects are symbolized with the corresponding map identification numbers on Figure 4.1. 4.2.2 Accessory Dwelling Units State law defines an ADU as an attached or detached residential dwelling unit that contains permanent places for living, sleeping, and cooking. In San Leandro, an ADU can be a maximum of 800 square feet to 1,200 square feet depending on the number of bedrooms and size of the main dwelling unit. A Junior ADU (JADU) is a unit that is contained within the habitable floor area of a single-family residence and may share a bathroom with the primary residence. The maximum size of a JADU is 500 square feet for single-family use and 1,200 square feet for multifamily use. Short-term rentals of 30 days or less are prohibited. Owner occupancy is not required in the ADU, JADU, or primary residence. The unit cannot be sold separately from the primary unit(s).4 ADUs may provide an affordable housing option for family members of the primary resident(s), students, seniors, in- home health care providers, persons with disabilities, young professionals, or others. 4 City of San Leandro Accessory Dwelling Unit Info Sheet. Available: https://www.sanleandro.org/DocumentCenter/View/1403/Accessory- Dwelling-Unit-ADU-PDF