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

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Resolution No. 2023-XXX Page 3 of 4 accommodate the units that would otherwise have been permissible pursuant to AB 2011 on the parcels being exempted; and WHEREAS, there will be no net loss of the potential residential density of housing affordable to lower income households in the jurisdiction because the parcels identified and listed in Attachment 5 and Attachment 6 allow density meeting or exceeding that required by Government Code Section 65583.2(c)(3) of 30 dwelling units per acre, the threshold established and deemed appropriate to accommodate housing for lower income households for jurisdictions in a metropolitan county; and WHEREAS, the City’s local inclusionary housing ordinance, known as the Affordable Housing Opportunity and Creation Ordinance (AHOCO), will require eligible projects citywide to set aside units as affordable to lower and moderate-income households for at least 55 years; and WHEREAS, exempting the parcels listed in Attachment 3 and Attachment 4 will result in affirmatively furthering fair housing by accommodating the residential densities in census tracts that are generally categorized as High Resource and Moderate Resource areas by the Fair Housing Task Force Opportunity Map (2023) that was convened by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee and HCD (TCAC/HCD) and which have opportunity area composite scores that have rapidly improved since first documented in 2021; and WHEREAS, exempting the parcels in Attachment 3 and 4 will prevent housing from being developed on sites that do not have the infrastructure needed to accommodate high-quality housing and will not comply with the land use plan and housing program that the HCD certified Housing Element is based upon; and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana, based upon the written findings required for exemption under AB 2011 and set forth above, exempts the parcels listed in Attachments 1, 2, 3, and 4 from the streamlined approval process for eligible projects provided by Government Code sections 65912.114 and 65912.124. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana as follows: Section 1. The recitals set forth above are true and correct and adopted as findings in support of this Resolution. Section 2. The City Council finds and determines that this Resolution is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Pursuant to CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines, the adoption of this Resolution is exempt from CEQA review pursuant to sections 15061(b)(3) and 15061(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines because it will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, as there is no possibility it will have a significant effect on the environment.