The city of Cupertino where the home town of Apple computer and HP. It is famous for the great school systems and expansive homes. The city of Cupertino is updating the housing element of its General Plan. By rezoning land that could accormmodate an additional 1,170 residential units from them there are 813 units are affordable housing through 2014.

The city council has sceduled to review the updated on May 5 2009. The State law requires all California cities to have an adopted General Plan with a housing element that is updated every 5 years. Each city and county receives an allocation of houseing units, broken down by the income categories.The housing department even address the housing according the cliimate change.

According to a Cupertino city staff report, meeting existing and projected housing needs is the most important and controversial requirement in any housing updates. You may read more about it from the www.cupertino.org/housingelement. The above photo is credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino,_California