Board member Teresa Ruiz will be leading it.

I'd like to allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And two in public forward systems undervisible with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Roll call, please staff.

Okay, good evening.

Board member Sue.

Here.

Board Member Ruiz.

Here.

Board Member Cisneros.

Here.

And President Hong.

Here.

Yes, and we have uh three absences this evening.

Excuse absence, but we do have four board members here, so we do have a quorum.

So that's wonderful.

So any agenda changes.

This may not actually be an agenda change, but uh I did speak with staff about this for item five A.

We have basically three annual reports for review.

And we have a different staff presenting on each item.

So suggestion is for us to take each one separately, uh take public comments, and then we can you know provide our comments and if we want to endorsement separately for each one.

So we'll handle it.

Handle it that way.

So um at this point, we're we're still at the non-agenda public comments portion.

So anyone who would like to speak on an item that's not on the agenda, uh it's open to the public for comments for three minutes apiece.

So staff, do we have anyone in the audience submit a speaker's card?

Anyone online?

I don't see any hands raised, and there are no speakers in person.

Okay, great.

And then uh we do not have any consent calendar items on tonight's agenda, so we'll move on to item five, which is the uh annual reports.

So the first one we'll be considering tonight for review and comment uh by the planning board is the annual report and the general plan and housing element.

So um staff presentation.

Yes, good evening.

I'll wait for the slides to come up.

Um I'm Steve Buckley, the planning services manager, and I'm here to present the first part of this evening's uh annual report um on the general plan and housing element.

Um then we'll have uh two other staff members uh presenting the remainder of the material.

Um there we go.

So um the general plan, as you know, uh was and the housing element were adopted um back at the end of uh 2022.

Um so we've had uh a full year of uh uh implementation and engagement on that the two um documents.

The general plan, this is the outline of the general plan, uh includes uh seven chapters, um six sort of you know, content chapters, um, covering land use, uh, urban design, um, conservation, climate action, mobility, open space and parks, health and safety, and housing.

And um overall, um, you know, we're sort of implementing the general plan pretty much every day.

Um, you know, these these elements and these policies and and programs are integral to how the city operates, um how the city council sets its uh strategic plan priorities and budget priorities, how uh parks and rec and public works and other departments sort of go about their business, and so um I don't have really much to say about the general plan implementation per se, except um you know, we've we sort of pick off different parts of it, like the zoning obviously was re uh adopted with the general plan, so that's mostly taken care of.

Um you'll be hearing more about the conservation um and uh climate action uh mobility uh this evening, where there are specific implementation plans that are also being um you know followed, and then um as I said parks and rec, you know, we we have a number of programs that are underway with the swim center and uh Gene Sweeney, and uh we'll also be looking at um uh urban forestry plan and other things that are all sort of integral to how the city operates.

So with that I'm just gonna move on to the housing element, which is much more sort of how the planning department um and the planning board are specifically engaged.

Um with the housing element, as you know, um we had the prior uh housing element with its uh regional housing needs allocation um there on the first column, and um you know the city was successful in building uh more housing than was allocated last time around in the prior element, um as with most cities in the Bay Area, um we we came up a little short on the actual affordable component of that.

Um so um in the new housing element, we have about three times as much of an allocation and about three times as much affordable housing to build.

So it's quite a challenge.

Um and uh I have to say 2023 has been a slow year for housing production.

Um so as you can see here, um we're supposed to be building on average about 670 units a year, um, at least entitling, permitting, somehow getting those things going.

Um yeah, we didn't get close to that.

Um but we see uh you know increases on the horizon.

Uh we've got a bunch of projects that were entitled.

Um we've got the reshape and midway projects, um, we've got another project coming in at the Alameda Landing, and we've got the Penn's oil project, which is under um development in terms of grading and you know, site prep utilities.

So we we're hopeful that um this year and next will actually be um banner years for housing production, and so we're hoping that uh in the next report we'll uh we'll have better numbers for you.

Um but um you know we're we're working with um also a larger planning framework.

We've got uh priority development areas, transit priority areas, and other other things that we're sort of tracking and and qualifying for um more housing uh funding as well.

So infrastructure, transportation, and housing are all kind of interrelated here.

Um so um as with prior years, you know, we we need to produce more lower income housing.