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The Santa Aha Zoning Ordinance is conventional in nature with little in the way of special provisions concerning low income housing. There are no specific zoning or design provisions pertaining to unit design parking or amenities for the elderly or handicapped. The ordinance proves ambivalent in the residential use district regulations. The standards are deficient at both ends of the spectrum in that they neither encourage the provision of low income housing units nor require high quality amenities producing a stock of high quality, higher priced units or rentals. Whether by design or acci- dent, t~e residential district regulations are geared for development under the "lowest comnon denominator" theory of residential quality. Even though this would add to the stock of lower priced or lower cost rental units, it does not ensure that those households with the greatest need for housing occupy such units and still does not make any special provisions for low or fixed income groups. ~hile many cities in Orange County and California as a whole are up- grading and intensifying residential development standards, Santa Ana re- quirements still reflect the development attitudes of the 1960 era of resi~ dential development. Of notable exception are the Planned Community and Planned Residential Development sections of the ordinance. The R 1, Single Family Residence, District may address the issue of new single {amily sub- divisions; however, it does not reflect that the majority of R 1 development has already been accomplished and the needs of this district now concern room additions, garage conversions, expansion for growing families, patios or other romedial or additive homeowner activities. As with the other resi- dential districts, no provisions are imposed regarding the maintenance of the physical housing unit or grounds to certain minimal levels for the life- time of the residence. The R 1 District pemits day care nurseries by con- ditional use permit, however, does not make clear provisions concerning {oster home activities for children, the ambulatory elderly or the physically or mentally handicapped. The multiple unit residential use districts range from the R 2 District at one unit per each 3,000 square feet of lot area to the R 4 at one unit per S00 square feet of lot area for projects of four stories or more. Other densities include one unit for 1,000 or 1,200 square feet of area in the R 3 and R 3H, and one unit for 1,S00 in the R 4 for projects under four stories. Parking standards require only one garage or carport space per unit for one, two or three-family units. In multiple-family projects, the ~mximum required is only one and one-half spaces per unit (one space for bachelor units). Even in the multiple-unit survey, owners and man~gers conmented on the lack of adequate parking facilities creatin~ 000026