City of Los Altos 2023-2031 Housing Element Update

City of Los Altos 2023-2031 Housing Element Update

The proposed project involves a comprehensive update to the Housing Element of the City of Los Altos General Plan. State law requires that housing elements be updated every eight years(California Government Code Sections 65580 to 65589.8). The Housing Element Update establishes goals, policies, and actions including rezoning of parcels and General Plan amendments, to meet the City’s 6th Cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). Los Altos’ latest RHNA calls for 1,958 new housing units. The proposed HEU does not propose any specific development and adoption of the proposed HEU would not approve any physical development (e.g., construction of housing or infrastructure). However, it envisions development including the proposed rezoning of sites for the potential development of additional housing units to meet the City’s RHNA. Therefore, the CEQA analysis assumes that construction of housing is a reasonably foreseeable future outcome of the HEU. The buildout assumptions for use in this CEQANotice of Intent to Adopt an Initial Study-Mitigated Negative Declaration document include 1,048 units that can be accommodated on undeveloped and underdeveloped sites and 600 units that can be accommodated through rezoning for a total of 1,648 units. More information about the proposed project can be found on the City’s website: https://www.losaltoshousing.org/

Los Altos

Santa Clara

Citywide, Countywide, Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 17, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)

California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)

Other (Housing Element Update; 1,648 units )

General Plan Update, Rezone

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire