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Policy 1.7 to "support open space in underserved area" like the project area. <br />The change to an Open Space land use designation will provide an <br />additional 60,984 square feet, or 1.4 acres, towards public parkland, helping <br />the City towards achieving its goal of a minimum two acres of public <br />parkland per 1,000 residents. The proposed park design will also support <br />the policies and programs in the Conservation Element to encourage water <br />conservation and the use of drought resistant landscape. <br />G. The City Council has weighed and balanced the general plan's policies and <br />has determined that based upon this balancing that the project at 300 East <br />McFadden Avenue is consistent with the purpose of the general plan. <br />H. The City Council also adopts as findings all facts presented in the Request <br />for Council Action dated October 1, 2012, accompanying this matter. For <br />these reasons, and each of them, Amendment Application No. 2012-01 is <br />hereby found and determined to be consistent with the General Plan of the <br />City of Santa Ana and otherwise justified by the public necessity, <br />convenience, and general welfare. <br />General Plan Amendment No. 2012-01 also came before the City Council <br />on October 1, 2012. This ordinance incorporates by reference, as though <br />fully set forth herein, the General Plan Amendment in support of this <br />ordinance and the findings made herein. <br />Section 2. The real property located at 300 East McFadden Avenue is hereby <br />zoned from Single-Family Residence (R1) to Open Space Land (O). (AA No. 2012-01) <br />The amended zoning map showing the above described change in use district designation <br />is hereby approved and attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated by this reference <br />as though fully set forth herein. This decision is based upon the evidence submitted at <br />the above said hearing, which includes but is not limited to: the Request for Council <br />Action dated October 1, 2012, and exhibits attached thereto and the public testimony <br />written and oral, all of which are incorporated herein by this reference. <br />Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this <br />ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any <br />court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining <br />portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that <br />it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, <br />phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, <br />subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or <br />unconstitutional. <br />ORDINANCE NO. NS-2839 <br />Page 2 of 4