Item 24 - Amendment Application No. 2023-04 and Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. 2023-03

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Ordinance No. NS-XXXX Page 2 of 16 shown on a Map filed in Book 198, Pages 19-20 of Parcel Maps in the Office of the County Recorder of Orange County, California. E. The approval of the text amendments, permissible uses, and development standards are consistent with the General Plan land use designation of Industrial/Flex-1.5 (Flex 1.5) and the designated West Santa Ana Boulevard Focus Area. On April 19, 2022, the City adopted the General Plan Update which went into effect on May 26, 2022. The Flex-1.5 land use designation encourages industrial uses that do not produce significant air pollutants including office-industrial flex spaces, small-scale clean manufacturing, among other uses. The proposed zoning amendment advances the vision for the subject site’s General Plan Focus Area and will bring the site into alignment and compliance with the General Plan through reducing and eliminating traditional heavy industrial and noxious uses currently allowable on the properties. Furthermore, the West Santa Ana Boulevard Focus Area envisions a mixed-use corridor with a goal of transitioning out existing auto- oriented and traditional industrial uses to clean manufacturing and research and development uses, and live-work maker spaces that are compatible and can coexist with residential and other sensitive land uses such as schools, churches, and recreation facilities. In addition, the focus area would transition a group of auto-oriented neighborhoods and institutions into a series of transit-oriented neighborhoods that support and benefit from future streetcar stops. In order to accomplish the goals of the General Plan, the focus area promotes infill development while respecting established neighborhoods and providing buffers from industrial to residential neighborhoods. The proposed project will create a buffer from industrial uses to residential by changing the use of an auto-repair building into an office space. Additionally, the proposed project proposes landscape improvements and a community garden that will further act as buffers and accomplish the goals of the General Plan. F. The applicant has demonstrated compliance with all requirements of the Sunshine Ordinance codified at SAMC Section 2-153, including public notification and hosting of required community meetings. Materials resulting from the meetings were subsequently posted to the City’s webpage for the project. G. On December 11, 2023, the Planning Commission held a duly noticed public hearing and voted to recommend that the City Council adopt an ordinance approving Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. 2023-03. H. On January 16, 2024, the City Council held a duly noticed public hearing and voted to recommend that the City Council adopt an ordinance approving Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. 2023-03. I. For the reasons contained herein, and each of them, Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. 2023-3 is hereby found and determined to be consistent with the intent and purpose of Chapter 41 of the SAMC; thus, changing the