11B - ORDINANCE - 2ND READING ZONING 300 E MCFADDEN

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Policy 1.7 to "support open space in underserved area" like the project area. The change to an Open Space land use designation will provide an additional 60,984 square feet, or 1.4 acres, towards public parkland, helping the City towards achieving its goal of a minimum two acres of public parkland per 1,000 residents. The proposed park design will also support the policies and programs in the Conservation Element to encourage water conservation and the use of drought resistant landscape. G. The City Council has weighed and balanced the general plan's policies and has determined that based upon this balancing that the project at 300 East McFadden Avenue is consistent with the purpose of the general plan. H. The City Council also adopts as findings all facts presented in the Request for Council Action dated October 1, 2012, accompanying this matter. For these reasons, and each of them, Amendment Application No. 2012-01 is hereby found and determined to be consistent with the General Plan of the City of Santa Ana and otherwise justified by the public necessity, convenience, and general welfare. General Plan Amendment No. 2012-01 also came before the City Council on October 1, 2012. This ordinance incorporates by reference, as though fully set forth herein, the General Plan Amendment in support of this ordinance and the findings made herein. Section 2. The real property located at 300 East McFadden Avenue is hereby zoned from Single-Family Residence (R1) to Open Space Land (O). (AA Nc. 2012-01) The amended zoning map showing the above described change in use district designation is hereby approved and attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein. This decision is based upon the evidence submitted at the above said hearing, which includes but is not limited to: the Request for Council Action dated October 1, 2012, and exhibits attached thereto and the public testimony written and oral, all of which are incorporated herein by this reference. Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or pot:)ns be declared invalid or unconstitutional. 11 B-4