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P23-0332 & P23-0605, 2025 Santa Rita Road Zoning Administrator 3of 12 Figure 2: 2025 Santa Rita Road, Street View General Plan and Zoning The project site has a General Plan designation of Retail/Highway/Service Commercial Business and Professional Offices, with a zoning designation of Freeway Commercial (C-F). The Housing Element Update designates the project site and adjacent Lockhart Lane as Area 16- Tri Valley Inn. Concurrent with adoption of the Housing Element Update on June 20, 2023, the City Council adopted the necessary General Plan amendments for the Housing Element sites to allow residential development at the prescribed density. The Housing Element sites are included as Housing Element Sites Overlay (HESO) in the General Plan Land Use Map, and development on the sites must comply with the site-specific densities set forth in the Housing Element. The project site, Area 16, has a density range of 15 to 25 dwelling units per acre, and the project proposes a density of 21.4 dwelling units per acre. These sites will be zoned “Housing Opportunity Zone District”(HOZ) for residential development, consistent with the applicable design standards established by the City with the intent of ensuring well-designed and attractive projects that minimize aesthetic impacts. The City is currently undertaking these zone changes to add the HOZ for all of the Housing Element Sites with an estimated completion date of December 2023. The existing zoning district for each area/site would continue to be reflected and the provisions of those districts would remain in effect in perpetuity. Pursuant to SB 330, a housing development project cannot be required to rezone the property if it is consistent with the objective general plan standards for the property. The City has adopted Objective Design Standards (ODS) to implement development consistent with the Housing Element. Objective standards are defined in State Law as “uniformly verifiable by reference to an external and uniform benchmark or criterion available and knowable by both the development applicant or proponent and the public official.”The ODS are applicable to each of the Housing Element sites and include standards that regulate height, setbacks, massing, site planning, lighting, landscaping and building design to ensure projects will be compatible with their surroundings, attractively designed and landscaped, and minimize impact to aesthetic resources. The project is subject to the ODS, including the specific standards for Area 16 that include an increased required setback from existing residential properties.