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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2023) AFFORDABLE HOUSING <br /> <br /> <br />2023 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 9-25 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br />(2) Both newly created parcels are no smaller than 1,200 square feet, except <br />that a local agency may by ordinance adopt a smaller minimum lot size <br />subject to ministerial approval. <br />(3) The parcel being subdivided meets all of the following requirements: <br /> (A) The parcel is located within a single-family residential zone. <br />(B) The parcel subject to the proposed urban lot split is located within <br />a city, the boundaries of which include some portion of either an <br />urbanized area or urban cluster, as designated by the United States <br />Census Bureau, or, for unincorporated areas, a legal parcel wholly <br />within the boundaries of an urbanized area or urban cluster, as <br />designated by the United States Census Bureau. <br />(C) The parcel is not located on a site enumerated in Paragraph (a)(2) <br />above. <br />(D) The proposed urban lot split would not require demolition or <br />alteration of any of the following types of housing: <br />(i) Housing that is subject to a recorded covenant, ordinance, or <br />law that restricts rents to levels affordable to persons and <br />families of moderate, low, or very low income. <br />(ii) Housing that is subject to any form of rent or price control <br />through a public entity’s valid exercise of its police power. <br />(iii) A parcel or parcels on which an owner of residential real <br />property has exercised the owner’s rights to withdraw <br />accommodations from rent or lease within 15 years before <br />the date that the development proponent submits an <br />application. <br />(iv) Housing that has been occupied by a tenant in the last three <br />years. <br />(E) The parcel is not located within a historic district or property <br />included on the State Historic Resources Inventory, as defined in <br />Section 5020.1 of the Public Resources Code, or within a site that is <br />designated or listed as a city or county landmark or historic property <br />or district pursuant to a city or county ordinance. <br />(F) The parcel has not been established through prior exercise of an <br />urban lot split as provided for in this section. <br />(G) Neither the owner of the parcel being subdivided nor any person <br />acting in concert with the owner has previously subdivided an