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<br />Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. 2004-07 <br />March 27, 2006 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />Analysis of the Issues <br /> <br />Single Family Development <br /> <br />The City Council, the Planning Commission <br />Commission have all raised concerns about <br />additions and new single-family dwellings <br />Santa Ana neighborhoods. <br /> <br />and <br />the <br />are <br /> <br />the Historic Resources <br />negative impact recent <br />having on traditional <br /> <br />In an effort to address these concerns, staff conducted an informal <br />survey of approved residential additions of three or more bedrooms. <br />These additions averaged 1,350 square feet and resulted in homes with an <br />average size of 2,675 square feet and 6.1 bedrooms (Exhibit 1). <br /> <br />Staff found that the large additions and many recent infill <br />developments, which are similar in size, scale, massing and number of <br />bedrooms as the surveyed projects, had the potential to negatively <br />impact the quality of life of the established and new neighborhoods as <br />follows: <br /> <br />· The proj ects were incompatible with the established neighborhoods <br />due to their scale and massing. <br />· The projects extended the economic life of nonconforming buildings, <br />instead of encouraging them to recycle. <br />· Their design was conducive to improper occupancy due to the <br />excessive number of master suites and imbalance in the proportion <br />of the private and social areas of the house. <br />· A high number of bedrooms appears to increase the parking demand <br />due to the potential for increase in the number of occupants. <br /> <br />In May 2004, the Planning Commission established an Ad Hoc Committee to <br />examine the adequacy of the current residential development standards. <br />The Ad Hoc Committee and staff have studied the issues, surveyed <br />neighboring communities and are recommending modifications to the <br />residential standards to work in concert with the recently completed <br />Citywide Design Guidelines to address the identified concerns <br />(Exhibit 2) <br /> <br />To address the concerns regarding the scale and mass of additions and <br />new dwellings, several interrelated regulations and standards are being <br />proposed that, when used in conjunction, would shape the scale and mass <br /> <br />758-3 <br />