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Planning and Building Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/pb <br />Item # 28 <br />or City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Staff Report <br />January 19, 2021 <br />TOPIC: GPA No. 2020-07, AA No. 2020-05 - Westview Housing <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Public Hearing — Environmental Review No. 2020-48, General Plan Amendment No. <br />2020-07 and Amendment Application No. 2020-05 for the Westview Housing Residential <br />Community at 2530 and 2534 Westminster Avenue (Property Owner: Westminster & <br />Fairview, LLC and Applicant: Community Development Partners) <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />1. Approve and adopt Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and <br />Reporting Program, Environmental Review No. 2020-48. <br />2. Adopt a resolution approving General Plan Amendment No. 2020-07. <br />3. Adopt an ordinance approving Amendment Application No. 2020-05 to establish <br />Specific Development No. 97. <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION & BACKGROUND <br />At its regular meeting on December 14, 2020, and after receiving public testimony on the <br />item, the Planning Commission voted unanimously (5:0 with Contreas-Leo absent) to <br />recommend that the City Council approve and adopt Mitigated Negative Declaration and <br />Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, Environmental Review No. 2020-48, <br />General Plan Amendment No. 2020-07, and Amendment Application No. 2020-05 to <br />establish Specific Development No. 97. At the meeting, the Planning Commission added <br />conditions to the Specific Development to conduct a warrant analysis for traffic control <br />measures at 16th Street and Huron Drive and 16th Street and Fairview Street and to refine <br />the elevation along Westminster Avenue (Exhibit 4). <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />Brian Hendricks, representing Community Development Partners, is requesting approval of <br />two entitlements for Westview Housing, an 85-unit multi -family affordable housing <br />development proposed at 2530 and 2534 Westminster Avenue. Specifically, the applicant <br />is requesting approval of a General Plan Amendment (GPA) to change the property's <br />General Plan land use designation from General Commercial (GC) to Urban <br />