Item 28 - Resolutions to Exempt Parcels from AB 2011 and SB 6

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Resolution No. 2023-XXX Page 2 of 4 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, AB 2011 specifically provides streamlined, ministerial, CEQA-exempt review for 100 percent affordable, multifamily housing development projects located in neighborhood plan areas where multifamily housing is permitted on the site and commercial zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, where both satisfy a series of objective development standards and other requirements, as codified in Government Code section 65912.114; and WHEREAS AB 2011 also provides streamlined, ministerial, CEQA-exempt review for mixed-income housing development projects along commercial corridors in neighborhood plan areas where multifamily housing development is permitted on the site and in commercial zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, where both satisfy a series of objective development standards and other requirements, as codified in Government Code section 65912.124; and WHEREAS, AB 2011 permits a local government to exempt a parcel from these types of streamlined approval before a developer submits a development application on the parcel if the local government identifies one or more alternative sites for residential development and makes certain written findings, which findings include that the alternative development would result in (1) no net loss of the total potential residential density in the jurisdiction, (2) no net loss of the potential residential density of housing affordable to lower income households in the jurisdiction, and (3) affirmative furthering of fair housing; and WHEREAS, the parcels listed in Attachment 1 and Attachment 2 to this Resolution are otherwise eligible for development at densities above the residential density required in Government Code section 65912.113(b) and 65912.123(b) by the Santa Ana General Plan Land Use Element and are exempt for streamlined review pursuant to Government Code sections 65912.114(i) and 65912.124(i); and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has identified the parcels listed in Attachment 3 and Attachment 4 to this Resolution as meeting the criteria established, and such parcels are otherwise eligible for streamlined review pursuant Government Code sections 65912.114 and 65912.124; and WHEREAS, exempting the parcels listed in Attachment 3 and Attachment 4 will not result in a net loss of the total potential residential density in the jurisdiction because there is sufficient capacity above the residential density required by Government Code sections 65912.113(b) and 65912.123(b) on parcels listed in Attachment 5 and Attachment 6 to