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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Zone Text Amendment 2023-0001 to Title 17 of the Corona Municipal Code to add Chapter 17.31 to establish regulations for an Affordable Housing Overlay Zone.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This staff report asks the City Council to consider the approval of Zone Text Amendment 2023-0001 (ZTA2023-0001), which would add Chapter 17.31 to Title 17 of the Corona Municipal Code to establish regulations for an Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) zone. The AHO zone is being proposed to satisfy the City's planning requirement of low- and moderate-income housing units required by the General Plan Housing Element. The AHO zone is an overlay zone and does not eliminate the underlying zoning on a property but does provide the flexibility to develop high density residential as a stand-alone project or as a mixed-use development that also consists of commercial. The AHO zone does required that at least 20 percent of the total residential units be set-aside for low-income housing units.
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.
b. Introduce by title only and waive full reading for consideration of Ordinance No. 3360, first reading of an ordinance adding Chapter 17.31 (Affordable Housing Overlay Zone) to Title 17 (Zoning) of the Corona Municipal Code to establish regulations for an Affordable Housing Overlay Zone (ZTA2023-001).
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BACKGROUND & HISTORY:
The City's General Plan Housing Element contains goals and polices and housing programs to address the identified housing needs in the City. The City is required to make accommodati...
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