NS-2948 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

G. 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 increase 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 the City's 2014-2021 RHNA allocation. H. On April 23, 2018, the Planning Commission held a duly noticed public hearing and voted to recommend that the City Council adopt an ordinance approving Amendment Application No. 2018-02 which is consistent with the General Plan, as amended by General Plan Amendment No. 2018-02. I. The City Council, prior to taking action on this ordinance, held a duly noticed public hearing on May 15, 2018. J. The City Council also adopts as findings all facts presented in the Request for Council Action dated May 15, 2018 accompanying this matter. K. For these reasons, and each of them, Amendment Application No. 2018-02 is hereby found and determined to be consistent with the intent and purpose of Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, thus changing the zoning districts is found to be consistent with the General Plan of the City of Santa Ana and otherwise justified by the public necessity, convenience, and general welfare. Section 2. The City Council has considered the information contained in the previously approved environmental impact report for the mater Dei High School parking Structure and School Expansion project (EIR No. 2013-01) prepared with respect to this project. The City Council has, as a result of its consideration of the record as a whole and the evidence presented at the hearings on this matter, determined that, as required pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the State CEQA Guidelines, the proposed project has been analyzed under the EIR and meets all the requirements of CEQA. Section 3. This ordinance shall not be effective unless and until Resolution No. 2018-037(General Plan Amendment No. 2018-02) is adopted and becomes effective. If said resolution and ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, or otherwise does not go into effect for any reason, then this ordinance shall be null and void and have no further force and effect. Section 4. The Applicant agrees to indemnify, hold harmless, and defend the City of Santa Ana, its officials, officers, agents, and employees, from any and all liability, Ordinance No. NS -2948 Page 2 of 4