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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MARCH 7, 2017 <br />TITLE: <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA GENERAL PLAN <br />HOUSING ELEMENT ANNUAL <br />PROGRESS REPORT <br />{STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 5, 313} <br />CIA MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />. 40 0200 <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on I" Reading <br />Ordinance on 2 "a Reading <br />(] Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />Authorize submittal of the General Plan Housing Element Annual Progress Report to the State of <br />California Housing and Community Development. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The General Plan Housing Element is a comprehensive planning document designed to address <br />current and future housing needs for Santa Ana and the surrounding region. The housing vision is <br />expressed in the goals and policies and implementation programs are stated in the Housing <br />Element. The purpose of the Housing Element Annual Progress Report (Exhibit 1) is to describe <br />the activities and accomplishments made in 2016, which are implemented in the City's housing <br />vision. <br />The following are four major Housing Element program accomplishments in 2016: 1) The <br />Comprehensive General Plan Update community engagement, including a total of 40 meetings <br />with residents and stakeholders to develop a sustainable Shared Vision for the future of Santa Ana; <br />2) The City of Santa Ana awarded 71 project -based vouchers to The Orchard, a Permanent <br />Supportive Housing exclusively for homeless individual and families; 3) The re- opening of The <br />Salvation Army Emergency Shelter to provide a total of 75 beds and services to homeless men; <br />and 4) A variety of local park, bikeway and pedestrian infrastructure improvements to promote <br />livable, "complete" neighborhoods. <br />The Housing Element Annual Progress Report includes a summary of Santa Ana's progress in <br />meeting its share of the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). There have been a total of <br />302 new housing units constructed to date in 2016; contributing to the City meeting approximately <br />58 percent of the overall target for Santa Ana's 405 RHNA units for the planning period of 2014 <br />through 2021. Presently, the RHNA process does not allow for housing unit credit for new <br />emergency housing shelters to address homelessness. City staff will be working with both the <br />Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) staff and State Housing and Community <br />Development (HCD) for consideration of homeless shelters to be counted to achieving the RHNA <br />allocation. <br />19E -1 <br />