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Chairman Keckley said that he wanted "housing market area" defined . There was discussion of what the phrase might mean , but no agreement was reached . Then Mr . Soderer read from the GPRC minutes to ascertain the intent behind the changes . Originally, Goal 3 had been : "A sufficient distribution of housing by type , size , and cost so that each household , regardless of race , color , or national origin , is provided a reasonable choice of location within every community throughout the county . " But Portola Valley and Woodside had wanted to delete "within every community , " leaving it "a reasonable choice of location throughout the County . " Portola Valley ' s rationale had been : The Town of Portola Valley recognizes the responsibility of providing . housing for those who are employed within the community . Low and moderate income units should be distributed on the basis of employment , public transportation , shopping facilities , and public facilities and services . To arbitrarily introduce higher density , lower cost units into an area of rural character may increase the tax burden , create the need to attract a greater tax base , and ultimately lead to a substantial change in the character of the area . A large region such as the Bay Area should provide such an environment for those who desire it . If low density communities are forced to accept sizeable amounts of higher density residential development , the local tax structure should , at the same time , be revised so that the local property tax is not the sole basis for financing added services . Ms . Henderson said that this very attitude will lead to an end of cities . As long as the intent and concern of state and federal legislation is to spread out low/moderate-income housing , cities must do this to comply with the law , and unless they do , she said , she saw no outcome but the removal of the power of small communities to govern their own affairs . Housing Aide Ransom said that he thought the Woodside and Portola Valley objections constituted discrimination on the basis of race and socio-economic level , vindicating the Committee in its inclusion of "continuing discrimination" on those bases as Obstacle 10 in the Housing Element . He said that he had talked to the administrative assistant to the town manager in Atherton about the requirement for local housing elements and had been told that Atherton intended to have its lawyer draw up their housing element and that it would probably consist of their one-acre zoning ordinance . Mr . Floyd said that he thought small towns might simply set aside a particular area for low/moderate- income housing and that would be it . Sylvester McGuire said that such towns might set aside an already developed area. Ms . Henderson said that she was also opposed to the deletion of Obstacle 7--"Lack of uniformity of building codes helps prevent the formation of mass markets and makes the introduction of mass production techniques in the building industry very difficult . " Mr . Soderer said that that had been stricken because the problem was not lack of uniformity , but of uniform interpretation and enforcement . Ms . Henderson said that that should have been added , then , not the whole thing stricken, and that was true , too , about the "civil rights " section. She said she didn ' t think a search for new techniques for financing low/moderate-income housing and for devices for reducing costs to sponsors and developers should be included among the tasks of the housing advisory committee to be established MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE MARCH 22 , 1972 PAGE 3 OF 4