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WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana continues to meet or well exceed its affordable housing and other residential development requirements, far outpacing any city in Orange County, as evidenced by issuing 1,635 permits for housing units across all affordability categories, fulfilling 52 percent of its 6th Cycle (2021-2029) RHNA less than two years into the eight -year planning period, as documented in the 2022 Housing Element Annual Progress Report submitted to HCD and the Governor's Office of Planning Research (OPR) on March 23, 2023; and WHEREAS, SB 6 specifically allows housing development projects located in commercial zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use and where the developer commits to both prevailing wage and "skilled and trained workforce" requirements for all construction labor, as codified in Government Code section 65852.24; and WHEREAS, SB 6 permits a local government to exempt a parcel from its application before a developer submits a development application on the parcel if the local government makes written findings of either of the following: (1) the local agency concurrently reallocated the lost residential density to other lots so that there is no net loss in residential density in the jurisdiction or (2) the lost residential density from each exempted parcel can be accommodated on a site or sites allowing residential densities at or above those required by SB 6 and in excess of the acreage required to accommodate the local agency's share of housing for lower income households; and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has identified the parcels listed in Attachment 1 as meeting the criteria established by Government Code Section 65852.24 for streamlined review; and WHEREAS, the parcels listed in Attachment 2 to this Ordinance can accommodate the lost residential density from the exempted parcels listed in Attachment 1 on sites allowing residential densities at or above those required by SB 6 and in excess of the acreage required to accommodate the City's share of housing for lower income households; and WHEREAS, the parcels listed in Attachment 2 are in excess of the acreage required to accommodate the local agency's share of housing for lower income households since the pipeline projects listed in the certified 6th Cycle Housing Element satisfy all of Santa Ana's share of housing for lower income households on parcels not listed in Attachment 2; and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana, based upon the written findings required for exemption under SB 6 and set forth above, exempts the parcels listed in Attachment 1 from the streamlined approval process for eligible projects provided by Government Code Section 65852.24; and WHEREAS, pursuant to California Government Code Section 65852.24(h), a local government may adopt an ordinance to implement the provisions of SB 6 and an Ordinance No. NS-3048 Page 2 of 4