Garden Grove, CA Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Density Bonus Law (2026)

040(A)-(B) requires a density bonus application to be filed with the Planning Division concurrently with the application for the underlying land use approval, and the City processes both together rather than sequentially. Subsection D denies a bonus to any project proposed on a parcel where rental units are, or within the prior five years were, subject to a rent-restriction covenant or occupied by lower- or very-low-income households, unless the state-law replacement-housing requirements of Government Code Section 65915(c)(3) are met. 5, subsection E requires the City to grant the density bonus in the amount those state sections specify, and the bonus units are not counted against the base density used to calculate the project's eligibility.

Subsection G requires the City to grant the specific incentives or concessions an applicant requests unless it makes the written findings Government Code Section 65915(d) allows, and bars incentives for senior housing bonus projects unless state law is amended to require them. Subsection H lets an applicant request a waiver or reduction of any development standard, such as height, setback, or lot coverage, that would physically preclude building the bonus-density project, and the City must approve it unless one of four specific findings applies, including a specific, adverse health-or-safety impact with no feasible mitigation, or a conflict with historic-resource protections. 050 before the bonus units are occupied.