PLANNING AND HOUSING COMMISSION STAFF REPORT
DATE: 03/25/2024
TO: Honorable Chair and Commissioners
FROM: Planning & Development Department
APPLICATION REQUEST:
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SPA2023-0008: Amendment to various specific plans to include an Affordable Housing Overlay zone to the existing zoning on certain properties and to change 1.33 acres from Gateway Business to Multifamily Residential to meet the City's mandated Regional Housing Needs Assessment required by the General Plan Housing Element for Planning Period 2021-2029. (Applicant: City of Corona)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommended action
That the Planning and Housing Commission recommend APPROVAL of SPA2023-0008 to the City Council, based on the findings contained in the staff report and the Addendum to the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Corona Housing Element Rezoning Program certified on March 1, 2023.
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BACKGROUND
General Plan Housing Element 2021-2029
The City's 2021-2029 Draft Housing Element Update was adopted by the City Council on November 3, 2021 and the Final Housing Element Update was approved by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) on October 12, 2022.
The City's total Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) assigned for the Housing Element during Planning Period 2021-2029 is 6,088 units with 2,792 units allocated to low-income housing units and 1,096 units allocated to moderate-income housing units. The remaining 2,200 housing units are allocated to above-moderate income housing units.
According to Program 7 of the Housing Element, the city is required to rezone properties that would accommodate the planning of low and moderate income housing units. The zoning for low income housing units shall be high density residential with a density of at least 30 dwelling units to the acre (du/ac). The City's Housing Element Update included an inventory of properties ("sites") that would need to be rezoned to high density residential...
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