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RESOLUTION NO. 2022-030 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA APPROVING GENERAL PLAN <br />AMENDMENT NO. 2020-06 FOR THE <br />COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE TO THE SANTA ANA <br />GENERALPLAN <br />WHEREAS, Article 5 of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 (commencing with <br />Section 65300) of the Government Code requires the City to prepare and adopt a <br />comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the City; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1982, the City of Santa Ana last completed a comprehensive <br />update to the General Plan; and <br />WHEREAS, various elements of the General Plan have been amended and <br />adopted from time to time; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana seeks to adopt a comprehensive update to the <br />Santa Ana General Plan ("project' or "General Plan Update"); and <br />WHEREAS, the General Plan Update identified the following five focus areas for <br />potential change and new growth: South Main Street, Grand Avenue/17th Street, West <br />Santa Ana Boulevard, 55 Freeway/Dyer Road, and South Bristol Street; and <br />WHEREAS, the implementation of the Land Use Element Interim Development <br />Standards are to ensure development projects are consistent with the vision of the <br />general plan and focus areas. The Interim Development Standards allow flexibility for <br />the developer to select one of respective Interim Development Standard options for <br />designing the development, which may be the least restrictive of the multiple allowable <br />options referenced in Appendix A of the Land Use Element of the General Plan (Table <br />LU-A-1) for the respective general plan land use designation; and <br />WHEREAS, the total long-term potential growth within these focus areas is <br />estimated at 17,575 new housing units, 2,263,130 non-residential building square <br />footage, and 6,616 jobs; and <br />WHEREAS, the General Plan Update also requires the certification of the Final <br />Recirculated Program Environmental Impact Report and related documents that have <br />been completed for the project, which approval will be concurrent with the approval of <br />the General Plan Update; and <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to SB 1000, the City is required to address Environmental <br />Justice in the General Plan Update due to a number of disadvantaged communities <br />located within the City; and <br />Resolution No. 2022-030 <br />Page 1 of 6 <br />