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City of Santa Ana — 611' Cycle Housing Element July 19, 2022 Page 4of5 The City of Hayward has even gone as far as incorporating a Skilled Labor Force policy into its Downtown Specific Plan and municipal code, requiring developments in its downtown area to require that the City "[c]ontribute to the stabilization of regional construction markets by spurring applicants of housing and nonresidential developments to require contractors to utilize apprentices from state -approved joint labor-management training programs[.]"' The City of Hayward mandates the same measure on all projects that are 30,000 square feet or larger.' Locating jobs closer to residential areas can have significant environmental benefits. As the California Planning Roundtable noted in 2008: People who live and work in the same jurisdiction would be more likely to take transit, walk, or bicycle to work than residents of less balanced communities and their vehicle trips would be shorter. Benefits would include potential reductions in both vehicle miles traveled and vehicle hours traveled. Moreover, local hire mandates and skill -training are critical facets of a strategy to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT). As planning experts Robert Cervero and Michael Duncan have noted, simply placing jobs near housing stock is insufficient to achieve VMT reductions given that the skill requirements of available local jobs must match those held by local residents.' Some municipalities have even tied local hire and skilled and trained workforce policies to local development permits to address transportation issues. Cervero and Duncan note that: In nearly built -out Berkeley, CA, the approach to balancing jobs and housing is to create local jobs rather than to develop new housing. The city's First Source program encourages businesses to hire local residents, especially for entry- and intermediate -level jobs, and sponsors vocational 4 City of Hayward (2019) Hayward Downtown Specific Plan at p. 5-24, available at https: / /www.ha=ard-ca.gov/ sites /default/files /Hayward%2ODowntown% 20S12ecific%20PIan.12df. 5 City of Hayward Municipal Code, Chapter 10, � 28.5.3.020(C). 6 California Planning Roundtable (2008) Deconstructing Jobs -Housing Balance at p. 6, available at https: / /cproundtable.org/ static /media /uploads /publications /cpr-j obs- housingpdf Cervero, Robert and Duncan, Michael (2006) Which Reduces Vehicle Travel More: Jobs - Housing Balance or Retail -Housing Mixing? Journal of the American Planning Association 72 (4), 475-490, 482, available athttp://reconnectingamerica.org/assets/Up1oads/UTCT- 825.12df.