01-03-2022 HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE
CITY OF ORANGE
LEGAL NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING
LOCATION: City Council Chamber, 300 E. Chapman Avenue, Orange, and various teleconference
locations. Members of the public can access meetings on Spectrum Cable Channel 3
and AT&T U-verse Channel 99 and streamed live and on-demand on the City’s website
at: https://www.cityoforange.org/2023/Orange-TV3-Live. All interested persons may
submit comments and may be heard on any r elevant matter relating to the proposed
actions by mail, email, voicemail or in -person, as set forth in the January 3, 2022,
Planning Commission agenda to be posted on the City’s website at
www.cityoforange.org.
DATE: MONDAY, January 3, 2022
TIME: 7:00 P.M. (or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard)
SUBJECT: GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 2022-0001, CITY OF ORANGE 2021-
2029 HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE
PROJECT
LOCATION: Citywide
REQUEST: A proposal to adopt an updated General Plan Housing Element, in accordance with
State law. The Housing Element is one of the State-required chapters or “elements” of
the City’s General Plan. The Housing Element Update identifies and analyzes existing
and projected housing needs, plans for the long-term provision of housing for a variety
of household income levels, and articulates the City’s official policies for the
preservation, conservation, improvement, and production of housing within the City for
the 2021 through 2029 planning period.
ENVIRONMENTAL
INFORMATION: The project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as
follows: (i) Pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the state CEQA Guidelines (Common
Sense Exemption) because it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that
the proposed 2021-2029 Housing Element Update would have a signific ant effect on
the environment; (ii) no property re-zoning is needed to accommodate the City’s
Regional Housing Needs Allocation, and potential residential development densities
have already been analyzed and mitigated in an earlier Environmental Impact Report
(the Program Environmental Impact Report prepared for the 2010 Comprehensive
General Plan Update, State Clearinghouse No. 2006031117); (iii) Pursuant to Section
15283, CEQA does not apply to Regional Housing Needs determinations made by a
city. For these reasons, no further CEQA documentation is required.
PROJECT
APPLICANT: CITY OF ORANGE
FURTHER
INFORMATION: The Housing Element is available online at www.cityoforange.org/2226/2021-2029-
Housing-Element-Update . For further information, please contact Anna Pehoushek,
Assistant Community Development Director at (714) 744-7228 or at
apehoushek@cityoforange.org.
If you challenge any decision on this request in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or
someone else raised at the public meeting described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the
Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public meeting.