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Community Development Agency santa-ana.org/cd Item # 16 City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Staff Report September 7, 2021 TOPIC: Willowick Golf Course Update AGENDA TITLE: Willowick Golf Course Update RECOMMENDED ACTION Receive and file the Willowick Golf Course update. DISCUSSION Background Willowick Golf Course is a 101.5-acre property located at 3017 W 5th Street, owned by the City of Garden Grove and located in the jurisdictional boundaries of Santa Ana. The property is located in the Santa Anita neighborhood, adjacent to the Santa Ana River on the east and the Pacific Electric Right-of-Way on the north. It is in close proximity to the Romero Cruz Academy, Spurgeon Park, Cesar Chavez Campesino Park, and abuts Garden Grove's Buena Clinton neighborhood and the Willowick Royal Mobile Home Park. On December 4, 2017, the Cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove held a Joint Study Session to discuss the potential reuse of the Willowick Golf Course (“Property”). Both City Councils directed staff to undertake further due diligence in the areas of visioning and economic analysis of the Property. Subsequently, the Cities retained independent consultants to help create a vision of future development and to work with the community to determine both the community needs and conduct a general market assessment. The Cities hosted four workshops to help develop a Vision Plan for the redevelopment of the Property. This process explored conceptual land use options formed by community and stakeholder collaboration and input facilitated by SWA, the consultant for the visioning of the Property. Initial feedback gathered from community workshops envisioned several desired community benefits that included, but was not limited to, the following: affordable housing, open space, community gathering space, cultural arts facilities, neighborhood retail, and connectivity to transit. On January 29, 2019, the Cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove held their second Joint Study Session to receive an update from the visioning and economic consultants and approved the City of Garden Grove’s development and release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit a master developer for the reuse of the Property.