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STREET CLOSURE POLICY FOR On motion of Councilman Markel, TEMPORARY FUNCTIONS seconded by Councilman Patterson and unanimously carried, Street Closure Policy for Temporary Functions as presented in the report to the City Manager dated April 15, 1971, was approved. CITY MANAGER REPORT The City Manager reported that SOUTH SANTA ANA AREA a few years back a Master Plan for Santa Ana was developed by the Planning Department and approved by the Planning Commission and City Council. Several things evolved: An image of the total City, giving direction, or control, over land utilization; open space; balance of industry, commercial, and residential; adequate streets, schools, sewer lines, and storm drains for the City to ultimately accommodate 240,000 people, in anticipation of the uses of the land. In the southerly section, south central portion, of the City, because of a series of unusual events, a situation has arisen which is critically dangerous to the City of the future. We are continuing to make commitments for land utilization. If continued at the same level, it will create considerably greater burdens upon the land, etc., than were anticipated; will materially change the type of City we have. Determination was made in the General Plan that it would not be feasible nor correct procedure to attempt to attain specific uses for every parcel of land within the City at that time; the principle was evolved and standardized that people who came in first would be able to use land more heavily than people who came in later. General areas to be developed were established at a range of between 8 - 15 residential units per acre. If the first use is heavy, this will restrict later developments. Santa Aha has had a tremendous influx of multiple construction in corr3parison ~o very little R 1 construction, due to the difficulty in obtaining loans on single- family dwellings at this time. In the area south of Edinger, between Main and Fairview down to Sunflower, additional uses in multiples have been granted to the extent that if they are built and all of the rest o£ the property were restricted to R 1 properties, we will still have more than B, 000 units built than were proposed in the original plan. If extended further, we could end up with 50,000 or 60,000 more people in this section of the City o£ Santa Aha than was originally intended in the development of the Master Plan. We feel these are critical matters. In response to questioning by the Council as to how this situation developed and why it was not predicted, the City Manager stated that there are several reasons: everyone trying to be of use to people who oven property and are willing to invest money; changes in staff; changes in situations of the marketplace not visualized in the original planning; that in practically all of these areas, staff has recommended against these developments, but both the Planning Commission and City Council found special sets of circumstances for approval; that as long as we can hold the line, maintaining our industrial areas for industrial uses, we will be able to see our way in development of residential uses, using the standard applied in the General Plan. The City Manager stated that his report was given to inform the Council of the problem; that the Planning Commission would make certain determinations and recommendations which would be presented for Council action at some future date. CITY COUNCIL -137- April 19, 1971