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Planning and Building Agency Item # 1 City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Zoning Administrator Staff Report January 22, 2025 Topic: Minor Exception No. 2024-04 – 1014 S. Cypress Avenue Units 100 and 101 RECOMMENDED ACTION Adopt a resolution denying Minor Exception No. 2024-04. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Benjamin Norouzi, with BNSB Properties, LLC (applicant and owner), is requesting Minor Exception No. 2024-04 to allow a second overhead electrical feeder for two newly built detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs), addressed as 1014 S. Cypress Avenue Units 100 and 101. Pursuant to Section 41-626(a) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC), all new electrical connections for new buildings are required to be underground. Moreover, pursuant to SAMC Section 41-626(e), a minor exception may be granted from the requirements of subsection (a) for new buildings, subject to the standards set forth in Section 41-638 of the SAMC. Staff is recommending denial of the request for a minor exception because an overhead connection already exists for the primary duplex residence (1010 and 1012 S. Cypress Avenue), there is no special circumstances applicable to the subject property, per the requirements of Section 41- 638 of the SAMC, and due to the project’s inconsistency and non-compliance with the City’s General Plan. DISCUSSION Project Description The subject site is improved with a 1,644-square-foot duplex structure located towards the front (east) of the property. There is currently an existing overhead electrical feeder/connection providing power to the duplex structure. The power pole providing the electrical power to the duplex is located at the northwest corner of the property, on a shared property line between the subject site and the adjacent property addressed as 114 E. Cubbon Street. In order to provide electrical power to the newly constructed ADUs, the property owner is requesting a second overhead electrical feeder or “drop.”