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Item 27 Comments RE: Hotel -Related Zoning Amendment January 16, 2024 Page 3 of 5 Table 2: 70A No. 2023-04—Current and Proposed Hotels[Motels and Full -Service Hotels Uses Permitted Zoning Districts Noteirmotel Pall -Service Hotel Cement Proposed Proposed ProfessionalfP} CUP P CornrnaO• Commercial (Cl)CUP No Chanas P Communit�j Commercial -Museum District (CI-140I GUP No Change P Ahonal Commercial (C5) CUP No Change P Comme€coal RE31d n ial fcH) CUP No Change P South Main S3reet Commensal District fC-s rn CUP No Change P Metro East Mixed Use Overlay Zone {MEMU} Village Center P P Active Urban P P OVice CUP P Harbor Camber Mixed Use Transit Corridor 5 acific Plan fSP21 Transt Node P No Change Cotridar P No Chan e MainPlace Specific Plan SP4 P No Change Specific Development No.43 (The MacMhur Place District Center) P No Change - Specific Development No_84lTransitZoning Cutlet Transit Villa e P No Change - 0cnxnlown P No Change Urban Center P No Change - Corrldcr I P 1 No Chan e Specific Development No. 8 Zone II P P Zan-- 14 - - P CUP: Permitted Subject to Approval of a Canditional Use Permit P: Permitted by -right Not permitted 3. INCONSISTENCY WITH HOUSING ELEMENT POLICIES The Staff Report claims the hotel -related provisions are consistent with the City's General Plan by citing a few objectives under the Land Use Element (i.e., Goal LU-2, Policy LU-2.2, and LU- 2.4) but offers no discussion of consistency with the City's Housing Element (Staff Report p. 8.) The Housing Element identifies that the City has a Regional Housing Needs Assessment C"RHNA") of 3,137 new housing units needed during 2021-2029. (See Housing Element,¢ p. 2.) The Housing Element acknowledges multi -family housing is important in meeting this housing goal and identifies various areas to focus new housing, including the Metro East Mixed -Use ("MEMU") Overlay Zone,-9 Downtown Santa Ana, MacArthur Place, South Main Street Grand Avenue/17th Street, West Santa Ana Boulevard, 55 Freeway/Dyer Road, South Bristol Street, the Adaptive Meuse Overlay,6 Harbor Mixed -Use Transit Corridor (i.e., SP-2),7 Transit Zoning Code (i.e., 0-84), and MainPlace Specific Plan (i.e., SP-4).8 (Id., at pp. 9, B-6; see also Land Use Element," p. LU-27 [fig. LU-5 focus areas].) Within and just adjacent to these areas are zoning districts that would be affected by 4 Housing Element, https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/santaanaca/uploads/2022/09/ Housing-Element_-Complete-9.16.22_Compressed.pdf. 5 MEMU, p. 3 (Memu Overlay Location), hops://storage,googleapis.com/proudcity/santaanaca/uploads/ 2 0 2 2 /05/Metro- East- Mixed-U se-Overlay-Zone.pdf; 6 Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, PDF pp. 5-6 (showing incentive areas, including N. Main St, Midtown, Transit Zoning Code, First/Grand Corridor), https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/santaanaca/ uploads/2 022/03/Adaptive-Reuse-Ord.-6.30.20.pdf. Harbor Mixed -Use Transit Corridor Plan, pp. 2-2 CMap), https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/ santaanaca/ uploads/ 2 022/03/Full- Document- Harbor- Mixed-Use.pdf. 8 MainPlace Specific Plan, p. 1-3 (plan area), https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/santaanaca /uploads/2022/06/MainPlace- Specific-Plan-SP-4.pdf. 9 Land Use Element, https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/santaanaca/uploads/2022/OS/ May_2023_GeneraI-Plan-Land Use-Elementpdf.