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ANNUAL ELEMENT PROGRESS REPORT Housing Element Implementation Jurisdiction Santa Ana Reporting Year 2022 Jan.1- Dec.31 Program Implementz Hous Describe progress of all programs including local efforts to remove governmental c 1 2 3 Name of Program Objective Timeframe in HT 3. Neighborhood B. Provide capacity -building support to the Santa Ana Communication Annually Improvement Linkage Forum (Com-Link) — the City's neighborhood associations' advocacy organization, and the Santa Ana Neighborhood Associations to engage and support residents to involve and emerge as leaders in their neighborhoods. 4. Neighborhood A. Complete infrastructure improvements in residential neighborhoods Annually & Ongoing Infrastructure consistent with the City's Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The CIP is updated every fiscal year and is available to view on the City's website: The CIP is updated every fiscal year and is available to view on the City's website: https:/Iwww.santa-ana.org/capital-improvement-program. Identity improvements from the City's asset management plans for inclusion in the yearly CIP/budget. 4. Neighborhood B. Seek additional funds to improve infrastructure, including state and Annually & Ongoing Infrastructure federal grants for improvements for health and wellness, prioritizing RECAP and TCAC census tracts. Prioritize grant opportunities to fund active transportation and infrastructure improvements on an ongoing basis and maximize opportunities in R/ECAPs and TCAC census tracts. 5. Healthy Neighborhoods A. Continue to implement Santa Ana Green program, including tree Ongoing Initiatives planting, corridor greenways, build -green initiatives, and energy conservation. 5. Healthy Neighborhoods B. Collaborate with neighborhoods and community organizations, Annually & Ongoing Initiatives especially in R/ECAP and TCAC census tracts, to promote Healthy Neighborhood Initiative, hold five community garden workshops, program the City's fitness courts, hold annual 5k and Fit festival, and operate Street Team with the objective of bringing recreation activities to communities that are challenged with lack of park space. 5. Healthy Neighborhoods C.Update the City's zoning code development and operational standards 12/1/2023 Initiatives for industrial zones to address incompatibility with adjacent uses, including minimum distance requirements to buffer heavy industrial uses from sensitive receptors. Conduct a study to evaluate and establish appropriate minimum distances and landscape buffers between polluting industrial uses from sensitive receptors such as residences. Table D tion Status pursuant to GC Section 65583 ng Programs Progress Report mstraints to the maintenance, improvement, and development of housing as identified in the housing element. Stitus of Program Implementation NIES continues to assist Santa Ana Com-Link and Santa Ana Neighborhood Associations with community planning, engagement, resources, and support. In 2022, neighborhood associations experienced a surge in re -activating neighborhood association meetings in person and having discussions about how to engage new residents and youth in the process. The City is working with the Com-Link Board to provide them with additional capacity - building so that they can help bridge the communication with new and emerging leaders on community engagement strategies and projects that they can ntegrate into their own neighborhoods, connecting with local school principals, faith -based leaders, businesses, youth and City staff. Com-Link Board members are also revising their bylaws to include community and business representatives and suggest term limits to draw new leadership into the future. City staff will be focusing efforts on providing Environmental Justice education and resources to neighborhoods that are within EJ communities I disadvantaged areas. In 2022, $21 million were expended to reconstruct approximately 22 miles of local streets and two miles of arterial streets. In 2022, the Public Works Agency (PWA) continued to pursue grants for neighborhood infrastructure improvements including approximately $2 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to address concrete street improvements in the Heninger Park Neighborhood. In 2022, PWA continued services to ensure the long term sustainability of the City's inventory of 50,000 City right-of-way trees which inlcluded the planting of 110 trees and the pruning of 18,565. All services performed were in accordance to industry standard best practices set forth by the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). The City's community gardens are now open regularly and were enhanced with special programming such as Harvest Festival, Compost Workshops, and extended hours of operation. The City's Health & Wellness Section is in the process of programing the ten fitness court spaces that were recently nstalled. The City's Annual 5k/10k Fit Fast will take place on April 22, 2023 and the Street Team is awaiting the procurement of a transportation van that will enable the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency (PRCSA) to visit and provide services to underserved areas of Santa Ana. Funding has been secured for the comprehensive update of the Zoning Code. In 2022, the Planning and Building Agency (PBA) drafted an RFP to solicit services to begin the community engagement phase of the project and drafting of the update. The RFP has been released and proposals are due to the City on April 13, 2023. As part of the Zoning Code update, it is the City's intent to conduct a study to evaluate and establish appropriate distance and andscape buffers between polluting uses and sensitive receptors. In addition, in December of 2022, the City Council approved an ordinance (Ordiannce No. NS- 3035) to require noxious uses that require a permit from a regional, state, or federal agency to discharge, emit, or store chemicals or other regulated substances to obtain a conditional use permit. The ordinance also made violations of permitting agency's codes a violation of the City's municipal code, enabling the City to take enforcement action against repeat violators. City Council 8 — 92 3/21/2023