RESOLUTION NO. 2025-
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DIRECTING THE
CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AN IMPARTIAL
ANALYSIS OF AN INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE
SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS AT THE
MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON ,
_, 2026, AND PROVIDING FOR THE DEADLINES FOR
FILING OF THE IMPARTIAL ANALYSIS AND WRITTEN
ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST THE INITIATIVE
MEASURE
WHEREAS, a
Beach, California(“City”)on
the registeredvotersofthe Citythe followingquestion:
Municipal Electionisto be held inthe City of Newport
, .,2026, at which there willbe submitted to
MEASURE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH GENERAL PLAN -
AMENDMENT
Yes
Shall the measure to amend the City of Newport Beach’s
General Plan Land Use Element allowing2,900 new affordable housing units(2,160 reserved forextremely low-,very low-, and low-income households; and 740 for moderate-income
households) with densitiesof 20 - 50 dwelling unitsper acre, plus State of Californiaallowed housing density bonuses, in Dover/Westcliff (174), Newport Center (870), West Newport Mesa (406),AirportArea (929), and Coyote Canyon (521), be adopted?
No
WHEREAS, pursuant to CaliforniaElections Code (“ElectionsCode”) Section 9280, the City Council may directthe CityAttorney to prepare an impartialanalysisof the initiativemeasure showing the effecton the existinglaw and the operation of the initiative measure;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Elections Code Section 9282, the proponents of an initiativemeasure may filea writtenargument for,and the iegislativebody may filea written argument against, an initiativemeasure; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council desires to directthe City Attorney to prepare an impartialanalysis of the initiativemeasure, and to provide forthe filingof arguments for and against the initiativemeasure.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City Of Newport Beach, California, does resolve, declare, determine and order as follows;
The City Council hereby directsthe City Clerk to transmit a copy of the initiativemeasure to the City Attorney. The City Attorney shall prepare an impartial analysis of the initiativemeasure of no more than five hundred words, in accordance with ElectionsCode Section 9280, by 5:00 p.m. on December 2, 2025.
Section 1:
The proponents of the initiativemeasure may filean argument for, to file a
written argument against, the initiativemeasure, not exceeding three hundred words, accompanied by the printed names and signatures of the authors submitting it,in accordance with Elections Code Sections 9282 and 9283.
Section 2;
and the City Council hereby authorizes the following
The arguments for or against the initiativemeasure may be filed, changed or withdrawn until5:00 p.m. on December 2, 2025, afterwhich no arguments for or against the City initiativemeasure may be submitted to the City Clerk or withdrawn, in accordance with ElectionsCode Section 9286(a).
Section 3:
The arguments shall be filedwith the City Clerk, signed, with the printed names and signatures of not more than fiveof the authors submitting it,or if submitted on behalf of an organization,the name of the organization,the printed name and signature of at leastone of itsprincipalofficerswho isthe author of the argument, in accordance with Elections Code Section 9283. Arguments shall be accompanied by the form statement required by Elections Code Section 9600.
Section 4:
The arguments, ordinance, and impartialanalysis shall be made availableforpublicexamination forno fewer than ten calendar days followingthe deadline for submission of those materials, in accordance with Elections Code Section 9295.
Section 5:
The City Clerk shall certifyto the passage and adoption of this resolutionand enter itintothe book of originalresolutions.
Section 6:
The City Clerk shalldelivera certifiedcopy of thisresolution to the Orange County Board of Supervisors and the Orange County Registrar of Voters.
Section 7:
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this resolutionis,forany reason, held to be invalidor unconstitutional, such decision shall not affectthe validityor constitutionalityof the remaining portionsof thisresolution.The City Section 8:
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Council hereby declares that itwould have passed thisresolution, and each section, subsection,sentence, clause or phrase hereof,irrespectiveof the factthat any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 9: The recitalsprovided in thisresolutionare true and correct and are incorporated intothe operative partof thisresolution.
Section 10: The CityCouncilfindsthe adoptionofthisresolutionisnot subjectto the CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct (“CEQA”) pursuantto Public Resources Code Section 21080(b)(1) because submission to the votersof a voter-sponsored initiativeisa ministerialduty requiredby ElectionsCode Section 9215, and isthereforenot subjectto CEQA pursuantto Sections15060(c)(1)(theactivitydoes not involve the exercise of discretionarypowers by a publicagency), 15060(c)(3)(the activityis not a projectas defined in Section 15378), and 15060(c)(2)(the activitywill not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirectphysical change in the environment) of the CEQA Guidelines,CaliforniaCode of Regulations,Title14, Division6, Chapter 3.
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Section 11: Thisresolutionshalltakeeffectimmediatelyupon itsadoption by the CityCouncil,and the CityClerkshallcertifythe vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this18th day of November, 2025.
Joe Stapleton
Mayor
ATTEST:
Lena Shumway
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
Aaron C. Harp
CityAttorney