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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) AFFORDABLE HOUSING <br /> <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 9-1 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br />9. AFFORDABLE HOUSING <br />9.01 STREAMLINED, MINISTERIAL APPROVAL PROCESS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS <br />The legislature has provided reforms and incentives to facilitate and expedite the approval <br />and construction of affordable housing. <br /> <br />(a) An applicant may submit an application for a development that is subject to the <br />streamlined, ministerial approval process and is not subject to a conditional use permit if the <br />development satisfies all of the following objective planning standards: <br /> <br />(i) The development is a multifamily housing development that contains two <br />or more residential units. <br /> <br />(ii) The development is located on a site that satisfies the following: <br /> <br />(A) A site that is a legal parcel or parcels located in a city if, and only if, <br />the city boundaries include some portion of either an urbanized area or urban <br />cluster, as designated by the United States Census Bureau, or, for unincorporated <br />areas, a legal parcel or parcels wholly within the boundaries of an urbanized area <br />or urban cluster, as designated by the United States Census Bureau. <br /> <br />(B) A site in which at least 75 percent of the perimeter of the site adjoins <br />parcels that are developed with urban uses. For the purposes of this section, parcels <br />that are only separated by a street or highway shall be considered to be adjoined. <br /> <br />(C) A site that is zoned for residential use or residential mixed-use <br />development, or has a general plan designation that allows residential use or a mix <br />of residential and nonresidential uses, with at least two-thirds of the square footage <br />of the development designated for residential use. <br /> <br />(iii) If the development contains units that are subsidized, the development <br />proponent already has recorded, or is required by law to record, a land use restriction for <br />the following applicable minimum durations: <br /> <br />(A) Fifty-five years for units that are rented. <br /> <br />(B) Forty-five years for units that are owned. <br /> <br />(iv) The development satisfies both of the following: <br /> <br />(A) The development is located in a locality that the department has <br />determined is subject to this subparagraph on the basis that the number of units that <br />have been issued building permits is less than the locality’s share of the regional <br />housing needs, by income category, for that reporting period. A locality shall <br />remain eligible under this subparagraph until the department’s determination for <br />the next reporting period. A locality shall be subject to this subparagraph if it has <br />3 -141