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, 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 WHEREAS, the parcels listed in Attachment 1 to this Resolution are otherwise eligible for development at densities at or above the residential densities permissible pursuant SB 6 by the Santa Ana General Plan Land Use Element and thus will not result in lost residential density by exempting them from streamlining provisions pursuant Government Code Section 65852.24(e)(1)(B); and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has identified the parcels listed in Attachment 2 as meeting the criteria established by Government Code Section 65852.24 for streamlined review; and WHEREAS, exempting the parcels listed in Attachment 2 to this Resolution from streamlined review will not result in a net loss of the total potential residential density in the jurisdiction because there is sufficient acreage and residential capacity above the residential density required by Government Code Section 65583.2(c)(3) on the parcels listed in Attachment 3 to accommodate the units that would otherwise have been permissible pursuant to SB 6 on the parcels being exempted; 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 Attachments 1 and 2 from the streamlined approval process for eligible projects provided by Government Code Section 65852.24. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana as follows: