City Council

A. Public Hearing on General Plan Amendment 23- 01 and Zone Change 23- 01 — Housing Element Rezone Efforts The 2021- 2029 Housing Element was adopted by the Rosemead City Council on January 11, 2022, and certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development on August 1, 2022. The Housing Element sets forth goals, policies and programs that address future housing needs for all income levels over a planning period of 2021- 2029 and coincides with the Regional Housing Needs Assessment ( RHNA), a unit count established by State Housing Law. During the Housing Element process, the City assessed a number of sites in its Sites Inventory that would be able to accommodate the City' s allocated RHNA of 4, 612 units. With units entitled and under review, as well as anticipated ADUs, the City has adequate capacity for its RHNA units. However, to further accommodate for the City' s RHNA numbers and to comply with SB 166 ( no net loss), the City identified ten candidate sites to be rezoned ( Housing Element Rezoning Efforts). The rezoned sites will meet the requirements of Government Code § 65583. 2, including but not limited to a minimum density of 20 units per acre, minimum site size to permit at least 16 units on site, and zoned to allow ownership and rental housing by -right in which at least 20 percent of the units are affordable to lower income households. 2 General Plan Amendment 23- 01 and Zone Change 23- 01 include changes to the City' s General Plan and Zoning Map to implement the City' s certified Housing Element, which is a policy decision and administrative in nature. No development projects are proposed on any of the ten candidate sites as partofthe Housing Element Rezoning Efforts. Recommendation: That the City Council take the following actions: 1. Conduct a public hearing and receive public testimony; and 2. Adopt City Council Resolution No. 2024- 65, entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, APPROVING GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT 23- 01, AMENDING THE GENERAL PLAN LAND USE DESIGNATION MAP ( FIGURE 2- 1) TO IMPLEMENT THE HOUSING ELEMENT REZONING EFFORTS FOR THE 2021- 2029 PLANNING PERIOD, and 3. Introduce the first reading, by title only, Ordinance No. 1024, entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE APPROVAL OF ZONE CHANGE 23- 01, AMENDING THE ZONING MAP TO IMPLEMENT THE HOUSING ELEMENT REZONING EFFORTS FOR THE 2021- 2029 PLANNING PERIOD