Availability
The Pleasanton Chamber supports the development of a wide range of housing that meets the current and future demands of all economic segments of the community.

Housing  Choices
The Pleasanton Chamber supports housing policies that encourage a broad range of housing choices and housing for groups bypassed by current market and political conditions; and in particular housing for the workforce as well as first time buyers, apartment dwellers, mobile home dwellers, the elderly, the working poor, and those with special needs.

Affordability
The Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce supports the development of a wide range of housing sizes and types at prices affordable to the wide range of workers and wages paid within our community and the Tri-Valley.

Jobs-Housing-Transportation Match
The Pleasanton Chamber supports the development of housing stock commensurate with Pleasanton employment and land uses that create a strong connection between housing, jobs, and the transportation network.

Regional Fair Share
The Pleasanton Chamber supports the development of housing stock commensurate with the State of California's Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) and recognizes the RHNA as the fair share of housing and as an appropriate assessment of need for each community.

Infrastructure
The Pleasanton Chamber supports the development of adequate infrastructure to meet its regional fair share of housing and to plan for, and build infrastructure so that such needs do not become an impediment to the production of housing.

Planning
The Pleasanton Chamber supports appropriate planning through a state-compliant Housing Element to create a clear and predictable development process established through housing-supportive zoning across sufficient sites to meet Pleasanton's needs.

Supply
The Pleasanton Chamber supports the use of housing need rather than artificial benchmarks as a means of determining the rate of residential growth or an absolute limit on growth.

Subsidization
The Pleasanton Chamber supports limited subsidies, as they are appropriate. The problems of special needs groups should not be solved solely through fees on new market rate housing. Money available for subsidies would be best used to provide the greatest possible benefit to the greatest number of people with known needs.

Benefit
The Pleasanton Chamber supports the development of appropriate housing as an investment whose benefits and costs are shared on a community-wide basis as adequate housing is an integral component of a healthy community which sustains a strong local workforce.

Adopted:  August 26, 2003

Revised:  October 26, 2006

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