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ORDINANCE NS-893 AMENDING SECTION 9328.2 OF PART 2, CHARTER 3~ ARTICLE IX OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE WHEREAS, recent developments in the field of land use have indicated the inadequacy of the Santa Ana Municipal Code relating thereto; and WHEREAS, to insure that the Subdivision Regulations of the City of Santa Ana will be sufficient to provide for such recent developments THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA AN& DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That Section 9328.2 of Part 2, Chapter 3, Article IX of the Santa Aha Municipal Code is hereby amended to read in words and figures as follows: SECTION 9328.2. Planned Single Family Developments. In order to make possible greater flexibility in the design and arrangement of single family lots within single family subdivisions; to provide a potentially more desirable living environment than may be possible through the application of the traditional Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations require- ments; to allow developers to use a more creative approach in the development of single family neighborhoods; to encourage a poten- tially more desirable and efficient use of open land; and to encourage variety in the physical development pattern of the City~ certain exceptions to this Chapter may be approved in conjunction with the development of land within the framework of the Planned Development Suffix provided for in the Zoning Ordinance. In the event a Conditional Use Permit is approved as provided in Section 9230.173 of the Zoning Ordinance for a planned single family development, the following exceptions to this Chapter may be approved: (a) An exception to due requirement that each resideatial lot have frontage on a public or private street, provided pedestrian ingress and egress is assured for each residential lot and vehicular ingress and egress is assured for each vehicular parking space, both by the appropriate agency of the City of Santa Ana. (b) An exception to the minimum lot width. (c) Where more than half the lots in a development do not have frontage on a public or private street~ an exception to the minimum 6,000 square foot lot area, provided there is sufficient area in comaon greens and recreational open spaces, held in undivided interest by the fee titleholders of the residential units and lots~ equivalent to the difference between the size of the lot and 6,000 square feet, for each residential lot within the planned single family development tract. Where more than half the lots in a development have frontage on a public or private street~ an exception to the minimum 6,000 square foot lot area~ provided that at least one-fourth of the difference in area is substituted as provided for in (c) and the equivalent of the remaining difference is available in publicly owned~ freely accessible green and recreational open spaces located no more than one-third of a mile from each lot in the development. (e) An exception to the minimum street total right of way width prescribed in Section 9322 of this Part, provided that in no case shall the total right of way width be less than 46 feet.