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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-82 - Directing the City Attorney to Prepare an Impartial Analysis of an Initiative Measure to Be Submitted to the Voters at the General Municipal Election to be Held on November 3, 2026RESOLUTION NO. 2025-82 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AN IMPARTIAL ANALYSIS OF AN INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS AT THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 3, 2026, AND PROVIDING FOR THE DEADLINES FOR FILING OF THE IMPARTIAL ANALYSIS AND WRITTEN ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST THE INITIATIVE MEASURE WHEREAS, a General Municipal Election is to be held in the City of Newport Beach, California ("City") on November 3, 2026, at which there will be submitted to the registered voters of the City the following question: MEASURE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH GENERAL PLAN - AMENDMENT Yes Shall the measure to amend the City of Newport Beach's General Plan Land Use Element allowing 2,900 new affordable housing units (2,160 reserved for extremely low-, very low-, and low-income households; and 740 for moderate -income households) with densities of 20 - 50 dwelling units per acre, plus State of California allowed housing density bonuses, in No Dover/Westcliff (174), Newport Center (870), West Newport Mesa (406), Airport Area (929), and Coyote Canyon (521), be adopted? WHEREAS, pursuant to California Elections Code ("Elections Code") Section 9280, the City Council may direct the City Attorney to prepare an impartial analysis of the initiative measure showing the effect on the existing law and the operation of the initiative measure; WHEREAS, pursuant to Elections Code Section 9282, the proponents of an initiative measure may file a written argument for, and the legislative body may file a written argument against, an initiative measure; and Resolution No. 2025-82 Page 2 of 3 WHEREAS, the City Council desires to direct the City Attorney to prepare an impartial analysis of the initiative measure, and to provide for the filing of arguments for and against the initiative measure. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City Of Newport Beach, California, does resolve, declare, determine and order as follows: Section 1: The City Council hereby directs the City Clerk to transmit a copy of the initiative measure to the City Attorney. The City Attorney shall prepare an impartial analysis of the initiative measure of no more than five hundred words, in accordance with Elections Code Section 9280, by 5:00 p.m. on June 15, 2026. Section 2: The proponents of the initiative measure may file an argument for, and the City Council hereby authorizes Council Members Blom, Barto, and Weber to file a written argument against the initiative measure, not exceeding three hundred words, and accompanied by the printed names and signatures of the authors submitting it, in accordance with Elections Code Sections 9282 and 9283. Section 3: The arguments for or against the initiative measure may be filed, changed or withdrawn until 5:00 p.m. on June 15, 2026, after which no arguments for or against the City initiative measure may be submitted to the City Clerk or withdrawn, in accordance with Elections Code Section 9286(a). Section 4: The arguments shall be filed with the City Clerk, signed, with the printed names and signatures of not more than five of the authors submitting it, or if submitted on behalf of an organization, the name of the organization, the printed name and signature of at least one of its principal officers who is the author of the argument, in accordance with Elections Code Section 9283. Arguments shall be accompanied by the form statement required by Elections Code Section 9600. Section 5: The arguments, ordinance, and impartial analysis shall be made available for public examination for no fewer than ten calendar days following the deadline for submission of those materials, in accordance with Elections Code Section 9295. Section 6: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions. Section 7: The City Clerk shall deliver a certified copy of this resolution to the Orange County Board of Supervisors and the Orange County Registrar of Voters. Resolution No. 2025-82 Page 3 of 3 Section 8: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional. Section 9: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are incorporated into the operative part of this resolution. Section 10: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21080(b)(1) because submission to the voters of a voter -sponsored initiative is a ministerial duty required by Elections Code Section 9215, and is therefore not subject to CEQA pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(1) (the activity does not involve the exercise of discretionary powers by a public agency), 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378), and 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3. Section 11: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution. ADOPTED this 18th day of November, 2025. ATTEST: zzce_'�"' Lena Shumway City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY TTORNEY'S OFFICE r Aaron C. Harp City Attorney STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE ; ss. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH I, Lena Shumway, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing Resolution No. 2025-82 was duly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting held on the 18th day of November, 2025, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Mayor Joe Stapleton, Mayor Pro Tern Lauren Kleiman, Councilmember Noah Blom, Councilmember Michelle Barto, Councilmember Robyn Grant, Councilmember Sara J. Weber, Councilmember Erik Weigand NAYS: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 19th day of November, 2025. Lena Shumway City Clerk City of Newport Beach, California