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organization and others would be presenting to the Council in September , he said . The proposal did not cover relocation , rchabil:i_t_. t:i ori , or anything about the present housing stoci. , but discussed production goals for new housing in Redwood City . Knowles s u:rmrtri. zed the step; the proposal suggested for an "adequate new-hour i :gig policy . " They were that the Council set a low/moderate - income housing production goal for the City for the next 'Len years and that it prepare a plan by which a portion of these new units be assigned to each neighborhood in the City . Private development would be required to produce much of the subsidized housing , he said . Knowles pointed out that APAG is in the process of setting housing gmis for cities and counties in the aly Region and that the City and the County have enough data • now to set a • reason -,ble annual production goal for the next decade . With ten percent of the County ' s population , Redwood City should probably expect to pro- vide ten percent of its subsidized housing , and by setting a "maximum production goal" the City would protect itself from assunLing more than its share of housing need . "This would provide insurance that ought to let the City proceed with production . . . before all cities in the County have actually begun their share . " • Putting a ceiling on the number of units which the City and each individual neighborhood would provide would be critical in getting public acceptance of the plan , Lou Knowles said . Federally-subsidized housing cannot be reserved exclusively for local residents , he said , but he referred to an August 12 article in the Palo Alto Times which showed that , rather than causing an "influx" of low/moderate - income families , subsidized units in Mountain View are primarily housing people who had lived or worked in Mountain View before they moved in . Knowles said that a "recognizable technique " is now emerging for determining neighborhood or area housing goals within cities . The following factors , he said, are averaged to determine the amount of needed housing that an area will absorb : the percentage of the city population living in the neighborhood , the number of lour-income students in the schools and the schools ' ability to absorb more , the neighborhood ' s growth potential (the availability of vacant land and the amount of apartment-zoned land with current single-family use ) , the percentage of the City ' s low-income households and racial and ethnic minority groups in the neighborhood ( to be considered inversely) , and transportation access to the neighborhood . Knowles said that maximums set under this plan would probably hold up legally if the plan were approved by the State , and he cited a new Government Code section , 65008 , which forbids any city or county to treat federally-assisted housing differently from conventional housing "except pursuant to an affirmative plan to encourage such housing . . . approved by the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development . " The most controversial area, but that in which most can be done , Knowles said, is in stimulating and requiring production of low/moderate-income housing . He suggested the City adopt a policy statement to the effect that: MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COivll4ITTEE AUGUST 22 , 1972 PAGE 3 OF 5 O