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Local 11 Comments RE.Village Santa Ana Specific Plan
<br /> September 8,2025
<br /> Page 15 of 17
<br /> • SD-92 (i.e.,Tiny Tim Plaza, 2018) allows hotels via a CUP. (SD-92,49 PDF p. 7 [incorporating
<br /> C2 Zone conditional uses,which in turn incorporates C1 Zone conditional uses]; see also
<br /> SAMC§§ 377.5(a), 41-365.5(c).) The Project was intended for a 51-unit affordable rental
<br /> project(id., at PDF p. 2),which seems to have been ultimately developed by 2021 (based on
<br /> aerial imagery).50 Hence,SD-92 does not permit by-right hotel uses even when the
<br /> development includes affordable housing units(i.e.,unlike the Village Specific Plan that does
<br /> not require a single affordable housing unit).
<br /> 3. THE PROJECT IS DISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE CITY'S OTHER SPECIFIC PLANS AND OVERLAY
<br /> ZONE
<br /> The City lists five Specific Plans ("SP(s)") and one overlay zone.51 Under the circumstances,
<br /> the Village Specific Plan (i.e.,SP-6) is unlike any of these five SPs or one overlay zone:
<br /> • The Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan(i.e.,SP-1) has four land use districts,including
<br /> Commercial,that correspond to the C-5 Zone. (SP-1,52 p. 19.)As discussed above,the C-5
<br /> Zone allows hotels via a CUP. Hence,SP-1 does not allow by-right hotels(i.e.,unlike the
<br /> Village Specific Plan).
<br /> • The Harbor Mixed Use Transit Corridor Specific Plan(i.e.,SP-2) includes four land use
<br /> districts,which allow hotels by right(but excluding transient and extended stays) in the
<br /> Transit Node and Corridor,but do not permit them in other districts. (SP-2,53 pp. 3-2 - 3-3
<br /> [Fig. 3-1,Tbl. 3-2].) Hence,SP-2 does not allow by-right extended stays nor lumps them in
<br /> with commercial, retail, and office into a single category of permitted uses(i.e.,unlike the
<br /> Village Specific Plan).
<br /> • The Midtown Specific Plan (i.e., SP-3) includes five land use districts (SP-3,54 pp. 22 [Exh.
<br /> 7]),where hotels are not listed as a use either permitted by-right or via a CUP (id.,at pp. 29
<br /> [Civic/Professional District], 42-43 [Financial District], 57 [community and Specialty Retail
<br /> District], 71 [Broadway Corridor District], 79 [Bush Street Professional District].) For
<br /> Specific Plans,"[n]o use of property is permitted in the SP district except those uses stated
<br /> in the applicable specific plan to be permitted uses or uses subject to the issuance of a
<br /> conditional use permit." (SAMC §41-592.2.) Hence,SP-3 does not allow by-right hotels 55
<br /> (i.e.,unlike the Village Specific Plan).
<br /> 49 SD(1/16/18),https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/santaanaca/uploads/2022/04/SD_92.NS-
<br /> 2935.TinyTimPlaza.pdf.
<br /> 50 Compare Google Earth arial images(10/3/95)and(3/30/18)with(2/21/21)and(5/8/25).
<br /> 51 See City,Zoning documents,https://www.santa-ana.org/zoning-documents/.
<br /> 52 See SP-1 (Mar.2018)Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan,https://storage.googleapis.com/
<br /> proudcity/santaanaca/uploads/2022/03/BristolSpecificPlanAmendmentMarch2018cn.1.pdf.
<br /> 53 See SP-2 (Oct.2014) Harbor Mixed Use Transit Corridor Specific Plan,https://storage.googleapis.com/
<br /> proudcity/santaanaca/uploads/2022/03/Full-Do cument-Harbor-Mixed-Use.pdf.
<br /> 54 See SP-3 (Dec. 1996),https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/
<br /> santaanaca/uploads/2022/03/Midtown_Specific_Plan.pdf.
<br /> 55 While SP-3 mentions a hotel option,it was subject to site plan review("SPR") (id.,at pp.29-30,38),which
<br /> suggest it may be permitted via a discretionary approval.(See e.g.,SAMC§§41-2005(a).)
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