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City of Palo Alto (ID # 14138)
City Council Staff Report
Report Type: Action Items Meeting Date: 3/21/2022
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Summary Title: Supplemental Report - HE Housing Sites
Title: Approve the Housing Element Working Group and Planning and
Transportation Commission Recommendations for the 2023-31 Housing
Element Sites and Their Associated Unit Yields as Well as Potential Fe edback
on Housing Element Policies and Programs, or Other Housing-Related
Direction to Staff.
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Planning and Development Services
Summary:
On March 21, 2022, staff will be presenting the Planning and Transportation Commission (PTC)
recommendations on the 2023-31 Housing Element Update sites selection for City Council
consideration. Staff continues to work on the staff report for this item, which will go out in a
late packet on March 17.
The PTC recently concluded its recommendations for the proposed strategies and sites for the
2023-31 Housing Element update. The City’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) for the
2023-31 planning period is 6,086 units. The Housing Element Working Group (Working Group)
approved recommendations to the PTC for strategies and sites that yield close to 7,000 units.
For the most part, the PTC followed the recommendations of the Housing Element Working
(Working Group) with the following exceptions:
1. Included City-Owned Parking lots as a site selection strategy.
2. Increased the unit yield of the identified Stanford Transit Center site.
With these additional PTC recommendations, more than 7,000 units have been identified to
meet the City’s RHNA. Table 1 provides a summary of the Working Group and PTC
recommendations.
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In advance of the late packet Council report, the public and Councilmembers may want to
review information previously transmitted to the PTC:
February 23, 2022 PTC staff report (duplicate of 02/09/22 report):
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/agendas-minutes-reports/agendas-
minutes/planning-and-transportation-commission/2022/ptc-02.23.2022-he-sites-selection.pdf
February 9, 2022 PTC meeting video:
https://midpenmedia.org/planning-transportation-commission-63-292022/
February 23, 2022 PTC meeting video:
https://midpenmedia.org/planning-transportation-commission-63-2232022/
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Table 1: Site Selection Recommendations from Working Group and PTC
Note: The unit yields reflected in table may continue to be adjusted based on changes in
applications received and new information learned. Highlighted figures reflect updates since the
Working Group meeting, see associated note in table.
WORKING GROUP
January 13, 2022
PTC
February 23, 2022 NOTES
RHNA Allocation 6,086 6,086
Those strategies marked with an asterisk (*)
denote additional PTC recommendations.
No Net Loss Buffer +609 +609
Total Units Required 6,695 6,695
Strategy Unit Yield NOTES
Pipeline Units
565 565
This number is fluid and modified as
additional applications received. One
application was received after PTC
approval.
ADUs 512 512
MFA 461 457 Two small sites and its associated yield of 4
units were administratively removed.
#1 Upzone* 1,657 1,640 One site and its 17 unit yield was
administratively removed.
#2 Caltrain Stations 798 798
#3 Transit Corridor 274 274
#4 Faith Based
Institutions* 148 148
#5 City Owned
Parking Lots* 0 168
The Working Group recommended not to
include City-owned parking lots but the PTC
recommended to include as a strategy.
GM zoned sites* 596 596
ROLM zoned sites* 902 902
Stanford Proposed
Sites
1. Pasteur Dr. 425 425
2. 3128 El Camino
Real 144 144
3. Transit Center* 180 270 The PTC recommended an increased density.
Staff Suggested Sites 183 183 Includes 3300 El Camino Real, 92 units.
Total Unit Yield 6,845 7,086
Difference
(Unit Yield - Units
Required)
150 391