Public Advocates brought suit against the City of Pleasanton in 2006, challenging its housing cap and its failure to plan to build more affordable housing. After a victory in the court of appeal, the California  Attorney General intervened on our side. We reached a settlement requiring the city to rezone three sites near the Dublin-Pleasanton BART station for high-density transit-oriented development, with no less than 15 percent of the units to be affordable to very-low income families; to adopt and implement a non-discrimination resolution that prioritizes sites and action programs to promote non-profit affordable housing development for families; to adopt a new affordable housing plan (Housing Element). It also required the city to amend its General Plan to remove all references to the unconstitutional Housing Cap and adopt a Climate Action Plan. The case led other recalcitrant cities to fall in line, including Menlo Park, Alameda and Concord.