2019-040 - Mainplace Mall Transformation

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City of Santa Ana Addendum to the MainPlace Mall Transformation Proiect Fashion Square Commercial Center Final EIR Proposed Project Minus Originally Approved 16,089 2,820 -4.65 (1983) Plan Proposed Project Minus Current Entitlement 373 3,539 -2.16 Source: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment, 2019 Climate Action Plan The City of Santa Ana adopted a Climate Action Plan (CAP) in December 2015. According to the CAP, transportation accounted for 48 percent of community emissions in 2008. Commercial, Industrial, and Residential Energy accounted for 42 percent of emissions in Santa Ana. Solid waste, water use, and wastewater together account for six percent of community -wide emissions in 2008. The CAP describes that many of the commercial and employment corridors throughout the City have limited or no residential development. The CAP envisions that the City would locate new residential development within these commercial and employment corridors to create a more optimal mix of land uses. This mix of land uses could potentially divert some work, shopping, and eating trips from automobile use to bicycle and pedestrian travel; and it would result in reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT). The CAP builds upon the goals and policies set forth in the City's General Plan and is specifically designed to achieve the City's goals of reducing community -wide GHG emissions 15 percent below the baseline year (2008) by 2020 and 30 percent below the baseline year by 2035. One of the methods prescribed by the CAP for achieving those goals is encouraging higher intensity mixed -use development within the City's designated District Centers. Specifically, the CAP explains that "District Centers are to be developed to provide shopping, business, cultural, education, recreation, entertainment, and housing opportunities, and the most intense development in the City is targeted to those areas." The CAP encourages locating new residential development within the City's existing commercial and employment corridors "to create a more optimal mix of land uses" and "divert some work, shopping, and eating trips from automobile use to bicycle and pedestrian traffic." The proposed Project would help implement the CAP by authorizing the development of residential uses (in place of previously entitled commercial and office uses) within the existing commercial center. The proposed Project is an urban mixed -use infill project that would include local commercial, housing, office, and hotel near OCTA transit routes, major freeways, and roadways. The infill location, mix of uses, and proximity to transit would reduce dependency on cars, reduce time spent in traffic, closely links residents to jobs and services, and reduce VMT. The inclusion of 1,900 residential dwelling units at a commercial site would create a more optimal mix of land uses that would be conducive to the increased use of transit. As detailed in Table AQ-7, the proposed Project is consistent with the City's Climate Action Plan goals. 120