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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 9-32 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br />(1) The development project shall include the percentage of affordable <br />units required by this section or the local requirement, whichever is <br />higher. <br />(2) The development project shall meet the lowest income targeting in <br />either policy. <br />(3) If the local affordable housing requirement requires greater than 15 <br />percent of the units to be dedicated for lower income households <br />and does not require the inclusion of units affordable to very low <br />and extremely low income households, then the rental housing <br />development shall do both of the following: <br />(A) Include 8 percent of the units for very low income <br />households and 5 percent of the units for extremely low <br />income households; and <br />(B) Fifteen percent of units affordable to lower income <br />households shall be subtracted from the percentage of units <br />required by the local policy at the highest required <br />affordability level. <br />(d) Affordable units in the development project shall have the same bedroom <br />and bathroom count ratio as the market rate units, be equitably distributed <br />within the project, and have the same type or quality of appliances, <br />fixtures, and finishes. <br />2. The project site must abut a commercial corridor and have frontage along the <br />commercial corridor of at least 50 feet. <br />3. The project site may not be greater than 20 acres. <br />4. The project must be located in a zone where office, retail, or parking are a <br />principally permitted use. <br />5. At least 75 percent of the perimeter of the project site must adjoin parcels that are <br />developed with urban uses. Parcels that are only separated by a street or highway <br />shall be considered adjoined. <br />6. The project may not be located on a site or adjoined to any site where more than <br />one-third of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use. <br />7. The project site must be located on a legal parcel or parcels that are either (a) in a <br />city where the city boundaries include some portion of either an urbanized area or <br />urban cluster, as designated by the United States Census Bureau; or (b) in an <br />unincorporated area, and the legal parcel or parcels are wholly within the <br />boundaries of an urbanized area or urban cluster, as designated by the United <br />States Census Bureau.