RESOLUTION NO. 11378
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
APPROVING GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO.
2022- 0001 ADOPTING THE CITY OF ORANGE
2021- 2029 GENERAL PLAN HOUSING ELEMENT
APPLICANT: CITY OF ORANGE
WHEREAS, the Housing Element is one of the required chapters of the City' s General Plan, required by State law; and
WHEREAS, the City previously adoptedits 2014-2021 General Plan Housing Element in January2014; and
WHEREAS, the California Government Code( commencing with Section 65580) requires cities to review and updatetheir HousingElementsaccordingto a scheduleset forth by the California Department of Housing and Community Development( HCD); and WHEREAS, theCity alsodesirestoupdateitsHousingElementto ensurethatit accurately reflects the City' s housing policy and addressescommunity needs; and WHEREAS, the City has prepared the 2021-2029 Housing Element as an update to its previously approved Housing Element in compliance with Statelaw; and WHEREAS, thePlanningCommissionconductedoneduly advertisedpublic hearingon January3, 2022, atwhichtimeinterestedpersonshadanopportunityto testify eitherin supportof, , or opposition to, the 2021-2029 Housing Element update and recommendedunanimous approval to the City Council thereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council approvesGeneral Plan Amendment No. 2022-0001, adopting the 2021-2029 General Plan Housing Element attached heretoand incorporatedherein as Exhibit A and directsstaff to implementthe policy action programs identified in the 2021-2029 Housing Element.
SECTION 1 — FINDINGS
1. TheGeneralPlan HousingElementmeetsthe requirementsof the California Government Code.
The Housing Element contains a housing needs assessment, resources and constraints analysis,reviewof pastperformance,housingpolicy actions,adequatesitesanalysis, andfair housinganalysis, consistentwith Staterequirements. The contentof the HousingElement addressescommentsprovided by the State of California Departmentof Housing and Community Development ( HCD) on the City' s 2021- 2029 Draft Housing Element.
Following City adoption of the 2021-2029 Housing Element, a copy will be submitted to HCD for final certification.
2. The Housing Element is generally consistent with the goals and policies stated within all othe elementsof the City' s General Plan.
TheHousingElementis consistentwith the City' s land useplan andis consistentwith the goals and policies of the remaining elementsof the GeneralPlan.
3. The Housing Element advancesthe State's housing goal of" decent housing and a suitable living environmentfor all membersof the community".
The Housing Element containsa needsassessmentdocumenting housing needsin the Orange community and establishes policy actions to meet those needs through the preservation, conservation, improvement and production of housing units in Orange. The housing policy actionsaimto provideopportunitiesfor productionof newhousingunitsfor all incomelevels, further fair housing, and also addresshousing for specialneedsgroups including seniors and largefamilies. As such, City adoptionof the HousingElementandimplementationof the housingpolicy actionsadvancethe State'shousinggoalof providing "decenthousinganda suitable living environment for all members of the community." SECTION 2 — ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
TheHousingElementupdateis exemptfrom the CaliforniaEnvironmentalQuality Act (CEQA) as follows: ( i) pursuantto Section15061(b)(3) of the StateCEQA Guidelines (CommonSense Exemption) becauseit canbe seenwith certainty that thereis no possibility that the proposed2021- 2029HousingElementUpdatewouldhaveasignificanteffectontheenvironment; (ii) noproperty re-zoningis neededto accommodatetheCity' sRegionalHousingNeedsAllocation, andpotential residential development densities have already been analyzed and mitigated in an earlier Environmental Impact Report (the Program Environmental Impact Report prepared for the 2010 Comprehensive General Plan Update, State Clearinghouse No. 2006031117); and( iii) pursuant to Guideline 15283, CEQA does not apply to Regional Housing Needs determinations made by a city. Forthesereasons,no furtherCEQAdocumentationis required.
ADOPTED this 8th day of February 2022.
Mark A. Murphy, Mayor, Ci of range
ATTEST:
PamelaColeman, City Clerk, City of Orange
Attachment: 6thCycleHousingElementUpdate (2021-2029)
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ORANGE
I, PAMELA COLEMAN, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adoptedby the City Council of the City of Orange at a regular meeting thereof held on the 8th day of February 2022, by the following vote:
AYES: COiJNCILMEMBERS: Murphy, Nichols, Monaco, Barrios, Dumitru, Tavoularis, and Gutierrez
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COLJNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: None.
PamelaColeman, City Clerk, City of Orange
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6th CYCLE HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE
2021- 2029)
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The above document is stored in a white binder labeled
Resolution iVo. 11378. The binder is located in the City Clerk vault, on Shelf No. 135.
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