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Amend DA No. 1999-01, AA No. 2018-02 and GPA No. 2018-02 April 23, 2018 Page 4 Institutional, which allows both govemment and educational uses such as Mater Dei High School. However, the 19 expansion parcels and adjacent street rights-of-way have a Low Density Residential (LR -7) land use designation since they were not under.control of the school when the parking structure project was approved. As these properties are now owned by the applicant, a general plan amendment is needed to make the 19 parcels and street .right-of-way consistent with the general plan land use designation of the existing campus. The proposed general plan land use changes will comply With State law as they will be consistent with the proposed zoning designations for the parcels. In addition to the amendment to the General Plan Land Use Plan maps, various text and maps in the General Plan Land Use Element are proposed to be updated to reflect the master plan of the high school in order to maintain consistency with the City's General Plan vision. Therefore, the proposed general,plan amendment to change the land use designations for the 19 parcels is supported by staff. The parking structure project required the acquisition of 19 residentially zoned properties, which reduced the amount of housing in the City. The applicant is requesting that these 19 properties be redesignated to Open Space zoning, and Institutional General Plan land use designation, which prohibits residential development. To accommodate this loss of housing, the City recently entitled a residential project on a site on East Fourth Street that was historically used for industrial purposes. In addition, the City, is in the process of further increasing the availability of housing though the adoption of zoning amendments to the Bristol Street Specific Plan and the Metro East Mixed Use Corridor expansion. Both of, these projects will result in an overall increased in land available for residential development that exceeds the number of units removed for the Mater Dei project. Therefore, the loss of 19 single-family residential properties will not impact the inventory of housing opportunity sites needed to achieve City's 2014-2021 RHNA allocation. Amendment to the Development Agreement The development agreement is a legal contract between the developer and the City that defines the terms and nature of development proposed for the project site. This agreement establishes development intensity, permitted uses and' standards for the term of the agreement. In exchange for the City vesting approval of the proposed project, the development agreement requires certain improvements and public benefits. In 1995, a development agreement was approved between the City and Mater Dei. In 1999, an amendment was approved between the parties that approved the Mater Dei'2000 Master Plan. Included in those agreements was language that obligated the City to complete off-street improvements (streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, etc.) in conjunction with a surface parking lot expansion project. In 2015, the City approved, another amendment to the agreement to allow a new three-level parking structure, a new two-story building, and an increase in enrollment. Language Ment ical to the 1995 agreement requiring the City to complete the off-site improvements was contemplated in early versions of the 2015 development agreement. However, when the project moved forward to the Planning Commission and City Council, this language was removed. Mater 75C-8