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G. The parking structure project required the acquisition of 19 residentially zoned <br />properties, which reduced the amount of housing in the City. The Applicant is <br />requesting that these 19 properties be redesignated to Open Space zoning <br />and Institutional General Plan land use designation, which prohibits <br />residential development. To accommodate this loss of housing, the City <br />recently entitled a residential project on a site on East Fourth Street that was <br />historically used for industrial purposes. In addition, the City is in the process <br />of further increasing the availability of housing though the adoption of zoning <br />amendments to the Bristol Street Specific Plan and the Metro East Mixed Use <br />Corridor expansion. Both of these projects will result in an overall increase in <br />land available for residential development that exceeds the number of units <br />removed for the Mater Dei project. Therefore, the loss of 19 single-family <br />residential properties will not impact the inventory of housing opportunity sites <br />needed to achieve the City’s 2014-2021 RHNA allocation. <br />H. On April 23, 2018, the Planning Commission held a duly noticed public <br />hearing and voted to recommend that the City Council adopt an ordinance <br />approving Amendment Application No. 2018-02 which is consistent with the <br />General Plan, as amended by General Plan Amendment No. 2018-02. <br />I. The City Council, prior to taking action on this ordinance, held a duly noticed <br />public hearing on May 15, 2018. <br />J. The City Council also adopts as findings all facts presented in the Request for <br />Council Action dated May 15, 2018 accompanying this matter. <br />K. For these reasons, and each of them, Amendment Application No. 2018-02 is <br />hereby found and determined to be consistent with the intent and purpose of <br />Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, thus changing the zoning <br />districts is found to be consistent with the General Plan of the City of Santa <br />Ana and otherwise justified by the public necessity, convenience, and general <br />welfare. <br />Section 2. The City Council has considered the information contained in the <br />previously approved environmental impact report for the mater Dei High School parking <br />Structure and School Expansion project (EIR No. 2013-01) prepared with respect to this <br />project. The City Council has, as a result of its consideration of the record as a whole <br />and the evidence presented at the hearings on this matter, determined that, as required <br />pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the State CEQA <br />Guidelines, the proposed project has been analyzed under the EIR and meets all the <br />requirements of CEQA. <br />Section 3 . This ordinance shall not be effective unless and until Resolution No. <br />2018- ___(General Plan Amendment No. 2018-02) is adopted and becomes effective. If <br />said resolution and ordinance are for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by <br />the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, or otherwise does not go into effect for <br />any reason, then this ordinance shall be null and void and have no further force and effect. <br />2- 10