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Element subcommittee, and ABAG, which established the City's original housing unit goals in 1987. She described staff's report to ABAG citing the changes in the City since 1987 and their impact on projected housing units: The South Shores and Bair Island purchase for a wildlife reserve, 1,600 acres no longer available for development; Area H was previously designed for 420 housing units, but it is being held up by the Army Corps of Engineers, and probably will not happen; Westport is now a commercial site, 85 acres lost; the Ampex site was also considered at one time for residential development, 12 acres lost; and Rohm Haas, was thought about, not as seriously as others, but that is 11 acres lost. 2) Staff response to State's Housing Element comments. Senior Planner Riordan said the Report included in the agenda packet, is a response to the State's letter listing what the City was doing right and where they thought there were deficiencies and what information and clarification they needed. She said two Elements had been completed: "The Housing Conditions analysis was contained in the CHAS Report, and we also expanded the Housing Needs Analysis for large families contained in the CHAS Report." Using an overhead she presented a Summary of Housing Element Deficiencies (Report on file in the City Clerk Department) which does not refer to information left out of the City's submittal, but is a summary of the more detailed analyses now required by the State. Senior Planner Riordan said, "We are coming very close to the numbers that the State wants. From 1988 through 1996 we have produced 2,259 units over an eight year period. We need to produce roughly 2,200 units within a three year period... Fortunately, we are in a very good market... and we do have a chance to get closer to the numbers that the State wants. We won't meet it entirely, but we are anticipating that we are going to produce roughly 1,600 new units this year. Most of those will be in the Lido area, Redwood Shores, close to 600 units, an estimated 400 units out by Bair Island Road, and then the Franklin Area Plan has 500 units. The shortfall is 876 units by the end of 1999, which is pretty good." Senior Planner Riordan described a number of policies that have been developed and implemented that will help the City reach the State's goals. The City created a Mobile Home District in 1989 that preserved 600 units that could have been lost to affordable housing; revised the in-law unit ordinance which allows accessory structures; amended duplex lot width requirements adding 134 potential units; rezoned Central Business District to allow mixed use, that could add 300 more units; rezoned portions of El Camino Real and Woodside Road to mixed use that could add 1,800 units. She said development would be over time, and probably not until the City reaches buildout. She described the planned development ordinance which allows cluster developments SPECIAL CITY COUNCILIPLANNING COMMISSION STUDY SESSION OCTOBER 20, 1997 STUDY SESSION MEETING MINUTES MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 PAGE 16 Page No. 600