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WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana continues to meet or well exceed its affordable <br />housing and other residential development requirements, far outpacing any city in Orange <br />County, as evidenced by issuing 1,635 permits for housing units across all affordability <br />categories, fulfilling 52 percent of its 6fh Cycle (2021-2029) RHNA less than two years into <br />the eight -year planning period, as documented in the 2022 Housing Element Annual <br />Progress Report submitted to HCD and the Governor's Office of Planning Research <br />(OPR) on March 23, 2023; and <br />WHEREAS, SIB 6 specifically allows housing development projects located in <br />commercial zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use and <br />where the developer commits to both prevailing wage and "skilled and trained workforce" <br />requirements for all construction labor, as codified in Government Code section 65852.24; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, SIB 6 permits a local government to exempt a parcel from its application <br />before a developer submits a development application on the parcel if the local <br />government makes written findings of either of the following: (1) the local agency <br />concurrently reallocated the lost residential density to other lots so that there is no net <br />loss in residential density in the jurisdiction or (2) the lost residential density from each <br />exempted parcel can be accommodated on a site or sites allowing residential densities <br />at or above those required by SIB 6 and in excess of the acreage required to <br />accommodate the local agency's share of housing for lower income households; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has identified the parcels listed in Attachment 1 <br />as meeting the criteria established by Government Code Section 65852.24 for <br />streamlined review; and <br />WHEREAS, the parcels listed in Attachment 2 to this Ordinance can accommodate <br />the lost residential density from the exempted parcels listed in Attachment 1 on sites <br />allowing residential densities at or above those required by SIB 6 and in excess of the <br />acreage required to accommodate the City's share of housing for lower income <br />households; and <br />WHEREAS, the parcels listed in Attachment 2 are in excess of the acreage required <br />to accommodate the local agency's share of housing for lower income households since <br />the pipeline projects listed in the certified 6th Cycle Housing Element satisfy all of Santa <br />Ana's share of housing for lower income households on parcels not listed in Attachment <br />2; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana, based upon the written findings required for <br />exemption under SIB 6 and set forth above, exempts the parcels listed in Attachment 1 <br />from the streamlined approval process for eligible projects provided by Government Code <br />Section 65852.24; and <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to California Government Code Section 65852.24(h), a local <br />government may adopt an ordinance to implement the provisions of SIB 6 and an <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />