City of Santa Ana Short-Term Rental Prohibition Ordinance Project (OA No. 2024-04)
Summary
SCH Number
2024110763
Public Agency
City of Santa Ana
Document Title
City of Santa Ana Short-Term Rental Prohibition Ordinance Project (OA No. 2024-04)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
11/22/2024
Document Description
Citywide - The City of Santa Ana encompasses roughly 27 square miles of land in central Orange County. The cities of Orange and Costa Mesa border the City to the north and south, respectively. The City's western border connects with the cities of Garden Grove, Westminster, and Fountain Valley, while the City's eastern border touches the cities of Irvine and Tustin. Regional connectivity to the City is provided by Interstates 15 and 405 and by State Routes 22 and 55.
Contact Information
Name
Ali Pezeshkpour
Agency Name
City of Santa Ana
Job Title
Planning Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Santa Ana
Counties
Orange
Regions
Citywide
Other Information
Citywide - No specific address
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
State CEQA Guidelines, Section 15301
Reasons for Exemption
The project is categorically exempt pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 - Class 1, Existing Facilities. Class 1 consists of the "operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, including negligible or no expansion of existing or former use." The project expressly prohibiting short-term rentals within the City of Santa Ana reaffirms existing policy and practice, and therefore will not result in a significant expansion of existing uses or former uses. The operational activities associated with the ordinance would be typical of residential development. No development, redevelopment, or change to existing development type in the City is proposed or required to implement the ordinance.
Further, none of the exceptions to the exemptions set forth under State CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2 apply. There will be no significant cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place, over time, as this is the only ordinance prohibiting short-term rentals. There is no reasonable possibility that the project will have a significant environmental effect due to unusual circumstances because it is reaffirming the existing prohibition on shortterm rentals. The project will not result in damage to scenic resources, including but not limited to, trees, historic buildings, rock outcroppings, or similar resources, within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway, because the project does not propose any ground-breaking activity or construction, but instead continues the existing ban on short-term rentals. The project addresses a project type that is not located on a site which is included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5. The project will not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource. Thus, the project falls under the Class 1 categorical exemption.
On November 20, 2024, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana adopted a resolution setting administrative fines for violating provisions of the Santa Ana Municipal Code and introduced for first reading OA No. 2024-04.
County Clerk
Orange
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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