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CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION Special Meeting Minutes December 5, 2013 CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 5:06 p.m. in Room 1600 of the City Hall Ross Annex I!jI"=Ik10Z101N The following Committee Members were present: Vincent Sarmiento, Michele Martinez, David Benavides Staff present were: David Cavazos, City Manager; Jay Trevino, Planning & Building Agency Executive Director; Karen Haluza, Planning Manager; William Galvez, Interim Exec. Director /Public Works Agency; Taig Higgins, Acting City Engineer; Melanie McCann, Associate Planner; Mark Hoffman, Consultant; and Rosa Barela, PBA Executive Secretary. PUBLIC COMMENTS Sandra Pena noted support for affordable housing for artists and requested special consideration be given to local artists and emphasized the need to work together to apply for grants to fund study programs such as the I.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Education and Art) District. Chris Taylor noted he would like to see the continuing discussion of the former Saddleback Inn site in terms of feature, recommending the committee be proactive to see something big and bold at the location. AGENDA ITEMS HOUSING ELEMENT Ms. McCann provided background information on the Housing Element basics which is one of the required elements in the General Plan, discussed the Santa Ana Housing Vision adding "healthy" was added to enhance the importance of health in the policy; discussed the major planning efforts and what was accomplished since the last update; discussed the affordable housing production projects, housing rehabilitation projects and special needs projects; and introduced consultant, Mark Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman provided information on some of the proposals in the draft element adding a huge amount of progress on the number of affordable housing projects; noted staff wanted to confirm they could accommodate changes against state legislation, to integrate the concept of health in all policies, and with the future update of the General Plan zoning ordinance to what extent the land use policies will be for certain areas and wanted to make sure the Housing Element reflects that direction; Discussed Goal 1: Housing & Neighborhoods the new policies of Complete Neighborhoods, Healthy Neighborhoods and Proactive Code Enforcement; the new /revised programs Building Healthy Communities, Building Community Efforts and Property Maintenance Standards (healthy housing); Goal 2: Housing Supply and Diversity the continued and new policies of District Centers and Diverse Housing Types; and the new /revised programs of the Harbor Corridor Specific