Item 32 - Resolutions to Exempt Parcels from AB 2011 and SB 6

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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 6t" 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: (1) the local government identifies one or more alternative sites for residential development; (2) the local government has permitted the alternative parcels not otherwise eligible for development pursuant to AB 2011 to be developed pursuant to AB 2011 streamlining; (3) the local government has permitted the alternative parcels that are subject to AB 2011 streamlining to be developed at densities above the residential density required in subdivision (b) of Section 65912.113 (100 percent affordable) or subdivision (b) of 65912.123 (Mixed -Income) of the Government Code; (4) the alternative development would result in no net loss of the total potential residential density in the jurisdiction; (5) the alternative development would result in no net loss of the potential residential density of housing affordable to lower income households in the jurisdiction; and (6) the alternative development would affirmatively further fair housing; and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has identified the parcels listed in Attachment 1 and Attachment 2 to this Resolution as parcels eligible for streamlined review pursuant to Government Code sections 65912.114 and 65912.124; and WHEREAS, the parcels identified in Attachment 3 and Attachment 4 to this Resolution have been identified as alternative parcels for residential development; and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has permitted the parcels listed in Attachment 3 and Attachment 4 to this Resolution that are not otherwise eligible for development pursuant to AB 2011 streamlined review to be developed pursuant to the requirements of AB 2011; and Resolution No. 2023-XXX Page 2 of 5