REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
DATE: 03/01/2023
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Planning & Development Department
SUBJECT:
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Specific Plan Amendment 2022-0003 to amend various specific plans to change the land use on certain properties to allow certain residential land uses with commensurate text changes.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This staff report asks the City Council to consider the approval of Specific Plan Amendment 2022-0003 (SPA2022-0003) to support the Housing Element Rezoning Program. The Housing Element Rezoning Program is a planning requirement that sets the path for the development of housing units in accordance with the City's mandated regional housing need in the General Plan Housing Element. It does not guarantee that housing will be developed on all the properties identified on the housing sites inventory in the Housing Element. Future development on these properties and in most cases the redevelopment of these properties will be determined by market conditions. At the same time however, the City needs to maintain land that can support the development of residential units based on the regional housing need during the eight- year period of the current Housing Element, which is the reason for SPA2022-0003.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommended action
That the City Council:
a. Find that no additional environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is necessary because there are no changes to the project as analyzed in the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Corona Housing Element Rezoning Program that was certified with the approval of General Plan Amendment 2022-0002.
b. Introduce by title only and waive full reading for consideration of Ordinance No. 3363, first reading of an ordinance approving amendments to various specific plans to: (1) add an Affordable Housing Overlay Zone for properties identified on the Housing Sites Inventory to permit High Density Reside...
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