Item 30 - Uncodified Ordinance Amending the List of Parcels

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Assessment of Fair Housing 1.1 Introduction Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) consistent with the core elements of the analysis required by the federal Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Final Rule of 2015. The goal of this assessment is to ensure that people have fair housing choice. The AFFH Act has two main purposes —prevent discrimination and reverse housing segregation. To affirmatively further fair housing means "taking meaningful actions that, taken together, address significant disparities in housing needs and in access to opportunity, replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws" (Government Code § 8899.50(a)). AB 2011 permits a local government to exempt a parcel from streamlined approval before a developer submits a development application on the parcel if: (1) the local government identifies one or more alternative sites for residential development; (2) the local government has permitted the alternative parcels not otherwise eligible for development pursuant to AB 2011 to be developed pursuant to AB 2011 streamlining; (3) the local government has permitted the alternative parcels that are subject to AB 2011 streamlining to be developed at densities above the residential density required in subdivision (b) of Section 65912.113 (100 percent affordable) or subdivision (b) of 65912.123 (Mixed -Income) of the Government Code; (4) the alternative development would result in no net loss of the total potential residential density in the jurisdiction; (5) the alternative development would result in no net loss of the potential residential density of housing affordable to lower income households in the jurisdiction; and (6) the alternative development would affirmatively further fair housing. This assessment includes the following components: a summary of fair housing issues and an assessment of the City's fair housing enforcement and outreach capacity; an analysis of segregation patterns and disparities in access to opportunities; an assessment of contributing factors, and an identification of fair housing goals and actions and related to housing and community development in a way that affirmatively furthers fair housing; and an analysis demonstrating that the alternative sites identified by the City of Santa Ana in its local implementing ordinance exempting certain sites from AB 2011 streamlining affirmatively furthers fair housing in a manner consistent with the AFFH Act. 1.2 Sources of Information The City used a variety of data sources for the AFFH analysis at the regional and local level. These include: • U.S. Census Bureau's Decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) • Orange County Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, May 2020 (2020 Al). • Local Knowledge, including information gathered from planning outreach events for major projects such as the Housing Element Update, General Plan Update, and the Zoning Code Update.