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RESOLUTION 54A-18 RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO SUPPORT FORMATION OF A HOUSING SUBREGION OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY LOCAL AND COUNTY GOVERNMENTS TO FACILITATE AND IMPLEMENT COUNTYWIDE HOUSING PRODUCTION CONSISTENT WITH THE REGIONAL.HOUSING NEEDS ALLOCATION (RHNA) FORMULA CURRENTLY ASSIGNED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF BAY AREA GOVERNMENTS (ABAG) WHEREAS, Housing Element Law (Gov. Code Sections 65580 — 65589.8) provides for u Regional Housing Need Allocation process(RHNA); and WHEREAS, to implement such RHNA process in the San Francisco Bay Area, the State of California has delegated to the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) responsibility to adopt an allocation methodology,then use the adopted methodology to assign to each jurisdiction in the Bay Areathe obligation to zone enough housing development capacity to accommodate production of a.specific number of housing units during the period from 2021 through 2029; and WHEREAS, Government Code Section 65584.03 provides that certain combinations of local governments may form a subregion to perform RHNA for themselves in order to allocate among themselves the total number of housing units assigned to them collectively by ABAG; and WHEREAS, the Town of Los Altos Hills is interested in exploring the formation of a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) subregion consistent with the California Government Code Section 65584 et seq and acceptable to the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to facilitate collaboration with the county and all cities in the County of Santa Clara, to efficiently and effectively deliver housing production goals; and WHEREAS, the Board of the Cities Association of Santa Clara County has directed the review of the benefits of such a subregion and subsequently representatives of the Cities Association of Santa Clam County (CASCO) have formed a committee to evaluate and make recommendations regarding the importance of and opportunities for success through shared housing strategies which could be facilitated by a subregional effort; and WHEREAS,housing is a countywide challenge, and housing production types,numbers, density, appropriateness and affordability levels can vary in different communities, and the Cities' recognize all production types are important to the housing supply of the County and its related economic and social health, and WHEREAS,Cities are individually accountable for,and retain full local authority for, identifying sites for housing development and for adopting and implementing housing policies intended to facilitate production of housing to meet local,regional and state policy objectives embodied in the numbers prescribed by ABAG the Sustainable Community Strategy that will be adopted by ABAG and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission(MTC)in 2021; and RexolWfon54AAS Page I