Item 37 - EIR No. 2020-03 and GPA No.2020-06 Santa Ana General Plan Update

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Memo to City of Santa Ana Planning Commission September 15, 2021 Page 9 Implementation Action [OS-] 1.6. Development fees. Evaluate the fees required by the City's Acquisition and Development Ordinance and adjust them to better reflect current costs and needs. Update requirements regarding where fees are spent. Open Space Element at 16. The City proposes to implement the action in 2022. Implementation Action 1.6 has been modified from the version in the previous 2020 draft Update, and is now much less specific than before. That earlier version (previously Implementation Action 1.8) called for the City to [c]onsider updating the City's Acquisition and Development Ordinance to better reflect current costs and needs by increasing the parkland dedication requirement, and require that fees collected in place of parkland dedication for specific development projects be utilized to acquire, expand, or improve facilities within the same quadrant or geographic subarea (as defined in the Parks Master Plan) as the project for which the fee was collected. 2020 Draft Open Space Element at 15. The more specific language in the earlier version of the implementation action should be retained in order to strengthen the City's development fee program. In particular, development fees should be used to provide new parkland in the same neighborhood impacted by the development. That geographic limitation should be based on walking distance from the development project (the same approach used for the park dedication requirements in Implementation Action OS-1.7), rather than "quadrant or geographic subarea." We propose revising Implementation Action OS-1.6 as follows: Implementation Action OS-1.6. Development fees. Evaluate the fees FequiFed by Update the City's Acquisition and Development Ordinance and adjust them to bettef fetleet etfffent eosts andneeds. Update -to increase the parkland dedication requirements f-e-ga ding w-hefe roes afe spent -for new development projects consistent with the dedication requirements specified in Implementation Action OS-1.7. Require that fees collected in place of parkland dedication for specific development projects be utilized to acquire, expand, or improve facilities within 0.5 miles walking distance from the project for which the fee was collected. 8. Proposed Changes to the Open Space Element's Parkland Dedication Requirement The Open Space Element currently includes the following provision: