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Clarifications to the August 2021 Draft General Plan November 1, 2021 <br />OPEN SPACE ELEMENT <br />- POLICY OS-1.2 PARKS AND RECREATION SYSTEM* <br />Provide and support a comprehensive and integrated network of parks, recreation facilities, <br />trails, and open space that is diverse, with a variety of active and passive recreational <br />opportunities. <br />- POLICY OS-1.3 PARK STANDARD* <br />Establish and maintain public parks, open space, and recreation requirements for new <br />residential and nonresidential development to provide sufficient opportunities for Santa Ana <br />residents and visitors. Attain a minimum of two acres of land per 1,000 persons residing in the City <br />of Santa Ana. <br />- POLICY OS 1.4 PARK DISTRIBUTION* <br />Ensure the City residents have access to public or private parks, recreation facilities, or <br />trails in the City of Santa Ana, within 10-minute walking and biking distance of home. <br />Prioritize provision, programs, and partnerships in park deficient an environmental justice <br />areas. [Policy OS-1.4 was left out of the August 2021 draft due to an editing error and <br />showed up as a duplicate of Policy OS-1.5.] <br />Implementation Action 1.7 <br />Public parkland requirements for residential projects. Update the Residential Development Fee <br />Ordinance for Larger Residential Projects to require public parkland within City limits and a 10- <br />minute walking distance of the new residential projects. Allow developers a reduction in on -site <br />open space by giving credits for the provision of park land for public use. Establish a process and <br />program to incentivize publicly accessible open space through the coordination between two or <br />more residential projects (of any size) to create public park land and open space, such as <br />exploring housing density bonus options . <br />Implementation Action 1.16 [new action] <br />- Acquisitions to meet park standard. Using the Park Master Plan as guidance, identify and <br />acquire property within the City for park and open space use which will focus on bringing the <br />park and recreation system to 2 acres of land per 1,000 residents with a plan to keep pace with <br />future urban growth. <br />Agency/Time Frame: PRCSA 2022 & ongoing <br />Table OS-1, Open Space Resources <br />- The table (listing and acreage) was updated to recategorize Roosevelt Community Center from a <br />Neighborhood Park to as a joint -use facility and a part of the Roosevelt Community Center Park. <br />- The table (listing and acreage) was updated to remove Griset Park and Neal Machander Tennis <br />Center as both facilities are school facilities without joint -use agreements. <br />- The table (listing and acreage) was updated to rename "Willard Intermediate Park" to "Willard <br />Intermediate Playlot", with the acreage figure update to reflect more accurate boundaries. <br />2 <br />