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Housing Opportunity Sites / EIR No. 346
Background
In 2004, the Anaheim City Council adopted a comprehensive update of the City’s General Plan and certified Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Number 330 as the environmental documentation for this project. The General Plan is a document that represents the City’s view of its future and is a blueprint for a city’s growth and development. The City Council and the Planning Commission use the General Plan to help guide their land use decisions.
In 2009, the Anaheim City Council approved the 2006-2014 General Plan Housing Element. This document is 1 of the 7 State-required components of the General Plan. This document assesses the housing needs for the City of Anaheim and plans for the provision of housing for a variety of income levels.
On September 24, 2013 the Anaheim City Council approved the Housing Opportunities Sites Rezoning Project by certifying EIR Number 346 and introducing an ordinance to reclassify properties designated by the 2006-2014 Housing Element as Housing Opportunity Sites to either the Residential Opportunity (RO) Overlay Zone or the Mixed Use (MU) Overlay Zone to facilitate “by-right” residential development at these locations. On October 8, 2013, City Council adopted Ordinance Number 6288 to finalize the rezoning of these properties. All of the rezoning sites are properties that were already designated for housing development by the General Plan, but zoned for non-residential land use. The RO and MU Overlay Zones allow the properties to be either developed according to their non-residential zoning or with housing.
On February 4, 2014, the Anaheim City Council approved the 2014-2021 Housing Element. The Housing Element designated all of the properties that were rezoned as part of the Housing Opportunities Sites Rezoning Project, as Housing Opportunity Sites for the 2014-2021 planning period.
On August 14, 2018, the City Council adopted an Affordable Housing Policy affirming that affordable housing is a priority in the City of Anaheim in response to the housing affordability crisis. The Policy encourages dialogue between City staff and all developers of upcoming rental and for-sale housing proposed in Anaheim to consider options and approaches for addressing the City' s affordable housing needs, as set forth in the Housing Element of the City's General Plan, and other documents that guide the City's affordable housing goals.
Recognizing that there can be financial implications associated with the delivery of affordable housing, the City Council also adopted an Affordable Housing Action Plan in conjunction with the Policy (Click here to view the Policy and Action Plan).
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (FSEIR) No. 346
- Notice of Determination for Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (FSEIR) Number 346
- FSEIR Number 346
Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (DSEIR) No. 346
- Table of Contents
- 1. Executive Summary
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Project Description
- 4. Environmental Setting
- 5.1 Air Quality
- 5.2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- 5.3 Noise
- 5.4 Transportation and Traffic
- 6. Significant Unavoidable Adverse Impacts
- 7. CEQA Mandated Sections
- 8. Organizations and Persons Consulted
- 9. Qualifications of Persons Preparing the EIR
- 10. Bibliography
- Appendix A Notice of Preparation (NOP) and Initial Study
- Appendix B Notice of Preparation Responses
- Appendix C SB 226 Provisions
- Appendix D Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Modeling Data
- Appendix E Noise Modeling Data
- Appendix F Traffic Impact Analysis
- Appendix G Draft Code Amendment
- Appendix H Revised Tables Lu-5 Residential Buildout Estimates and LU-6 Non-Residential Buildout Estimates
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Streamlining for Infill Projects
Background
The infill streamlining provisions of CEQA were adopted in compliance with Senate Bill (SB) 226 (Simitian, 2011). SB 226 was developed by the California State Legislature to address uncertainty and delay by creating a new streamlining mechanism in CEQA for infill projects that promote a specific set of environmental policy objectives. The broad purposes of SB 226 are two-fold:
- Provide flexibility in project design bby basing eligibility on environmental performance rather than prescribing specific project characteristics; and
- Allow infill projects to avoid repetitive environmental analysis of environmental effects that were previously analyzed in a prior Environmental Impact Report for a planning-level decision.
For more information, please visit the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research website.