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2023 General Plan Annual Progress Report <br />March 19, 2024 <br />Page 2 <br />4 <br />0 <br />7 <br />7 <br />General Plan <br />Significant progress is underway in implementing the General Plan following its <br />comprehensive update in 2022. As detailed in the City of Santa Ana 2023 General Plan <br />Annual Progress Report (Exhibit 1), highlights include: <br />•The construction of housing projects such as FX Residences, WISEPlace, and <br />Crossroads at Washington, which will cumulatively add 148 affordable housing <br />units to address the various housing challenges and needs facing the <br />community. <br />•The initiation of the Comprehensive Zoning Code Update that will modernize all <br />aspects of the City’s Zoning Code, including updating development standards <br />and processes. <br />•The formation of the Environmental Justice Action Committee that is comprised <br />of five residents that will each represent one Environmental Justice (EJ) cluster in <br />the City. <br />•The opening of the new Ed Caruthers Park in Central City and the official naming <br />and groundbreaking of Gerardo Mouet Park in Cornerstone Village, addressing <br />the longstanding underdevelopment of parks/open space. <br />Exhibit 1 details additional accomplishments and highlights on 230 actions completed or <br />currently in progress. <br />Housing Element <br />As required by HCD, the Housing Element portion of the progress report includes <br />detailed accounting of all housing projects submitted, reviewed, entitled, and <br />constructed in the City of Santa Ana in 2023, in addition to the status of the <br />implementation actions and programs to achieve the City’s housing vision in the state <br />mandated form. <br />The Housing Element portion of the report also measures the City’s progress to meet <br />state-mandated housing goals as set forth in our Regional Housing Needs Allocation <br />(RHNA) for the 6th cycle planning period (2021-2029). Through a process referred to as <br />“RHNA,” each jurisdiction is given a target for how many permits to issue in four housing <br />income categories ranging from very–low income (affordable to those who earn 50% or <br />less of the Area Median Income [AMI]), to above moderate income (more than 120% of <br />AMI). Based on the income limits published by State HCD in June of 2023, the Area <br />Median Income for Orange County is $127,800. <br />The Housing Element portion of the report includes a summary of Santa Ana’s progress <br />in meeting its share of the RHNA allocation for the 6th cycle. There were a total of 2,542 <br />building permits issued for new housing units in 2023, of which 64 housing units are <br />affordable to very low-income and 113 to low-income households, respectively. With the