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~vailabilit~ .qf Vacant .Land and Adequate Sites <br /> <br /> There are currently 1,676 acres of vacant land in parcels of five <br />acres or more within the City of Santa Arm. O~ that acreage, 424 acres <br />are currently zoned for residential use or in less restrictive categories <br />{primarily A 1). The General Plan proposes that of that vacant land area <br />502 acres be ultimately used for new housing stock. Current estimates of <br />possible rezonings and amendments to the General Plan indicate that S3 <br />acres will be zoned from more intensive zoning to residential and 37 acres <br />from residential to more intensive, resulting in a net gain of 16 acres, <br />for a total of 440 acres usable to increase the supply of housing stock. <br />It should be pointed out that approximately forty percent of that 440 acres <br />is under a single ownership in the southwest portion of the City. The <br />r~naining parcels are scattered throughout the area west of the Santa Arm <br />River, in the southwest sector, and a few parcels in the eastern fringe of <br />the City near the Tustin boundary. None of the identified parcels are within <br />any of the housing target areas identified by this study. <br /> <br /> The 440 acres are allocated as follows: Single family, detached <br />housing (approximately S d.u. per acre} would have 149.5 acres available <br />for development. ~edit~n density housing areas (R 2 zoning with 14.5 d.u. <br />per acre} would constitute 163.5 acres, and high density (R 4 zoning with <br />24 d.u. per acre} would be 127 acres. This would generate so~e 6,170 <br />dwelling ualits which, based on 1974 people per unit figures generated by <br />this study, would house approximately 16,250 people. In General Plan amend- <br />ment considerations, the 1,236 acres of land allocated for other than resi- <br />dential uses should be closely scruitinized to ensure that those land areas <br />are clearly more appropriate for other than housing. The Santa Aha Planning <br />Department should also pursue a survey of all vacant lands, including <br />parcels of less than five acres, to ascertain the full cumulative effect <br />of such smaller parcels. <br /> <br />000086 <br /> <br /> <br />