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9.A. - Page 8 Program BE-1: Amend Zoning Ordinance and Map Program BE-1, as discussed in the Built Environment Element review section above, requires updates to the Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map to provide consistency with the new General Plan. The revisions to the Zoning Ordinance/Map will provide development opportunities for approximately 6,300 units identified on sites in the Housing Element. As previously described, on January 24, 2011, Redwood City adopted Zoning Ordinance/Map amendments for the Downtown Precise Plan, which allows 2,500 residential units with no density cap and allowed heights of up to 12 stories. On June 13, 2011, the City also adopted five Mixed Use Corridor District Zoning Amendments/Maps that provide an additional 2,083 housing unit opportunities along the City's major transportation corridors at 60 units/acre and allowed heights of five stories. By early spring 2013, the City will also consider adopting the Mixed-Use Neighborhood and Mixed-Use Live-Work Zoning Districts to allow an additional 573 housing unit opportunities and, consistent with SB2, will consider amending the Zoning Ordinance to allow emergency shelters by right. Progress in meeting the regional housing needs California law requires each city and county to have land zoned to accommodate its fair share of regional housing need. The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) determined that the projected housing need for years 2007 to 2014 for the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) region is 214,500 housing units. ABAG, in concert with Housing Methodology Committee (HMC) members (primarily elected ofFicials and/or several senior level planning/housing staff from the 101 cities and towns of the San Francisco Bay region), allocated and administered the initial regional housing needs allocation (RHNA) comprised of very-low, low, moderate and above moderate income housing categories, to Bay Area jurisdictions. The County/City Association of Governments (C/CAG), in concert with "21 (Jurisdiction Housing) Elements" (elected ofFicials and senior level planning/housing staff from San Mateo County's 21 jurisdictions), further refined/ administered the RHNA allocation at the San Mateo County jurisdictional level. As a result of the regional and county level planning processes described above, Redwood City's RHNA for the 2007-2014 Housing Element planning period is as follows (Table 1): Table 1 Redwood City RHNA Allocation % of County Median RHNA Income Group Family Income (Housing Units) Percentage of Units Very low 0-50% 422 23% Low 51-80% 304 16% Moderate 81- 120% 358 19% Above Moderate 120% + 772 42% Total 1,856 100%