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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) DEFINITIONS <br /> <br />Resources included on a list of properties officially designated or recognized as <br />historically significant by a local government pursuant to a local ordinance or <br />resolution, or identified as significant in a historical resource survey (as described <br />above) are presumed to be historically or culturally significant, unless a <br />preponderance of evidence demonstrates that they are not historically or culturally <br />significant. <br />Any of the following may be considered historically significant: any object, building, <br />structure, site, area, place, record or manuscript which a Lead Agency determines, <br />based upon substantial evidence in light of the whole record, to be historically <br />significant or significant in the architectural, engineering, scientific, economic, <br />agricultural, educational, social, political, military or cultural annals of California. <br />The Lead Agency is not precluded from determining that a resource is a historical <br />resource, as defined in Public Resources Code Sections 5020.1(j) or 5024.1, even if it <br />is: (a) not listed in, or is not determined to be eligible for listing in, the California <br />Register of Historical Resources; (b) not included in a local register of historical <br />resources; or (c) not identified in a historical resources survey. <br />11.29 ns a site in an urbanized area that meets either of the following <br />criteria: <br />(1) The site has been previously developed for qualified urban uses; or <br />(2) The site has not been previously developed for qualified urban uses and both <br />(a) and (b) are met: <br />(a) the site is immediately adjacent to parcels that are developed with <br />qualified urban uses, or <br />1. at least 75 percent of the perimeter of the site adjoins, or is <br />separated only by an improved public right-of-way from, <br />parcels that are developed with existing qualified urban uses at <br />the time the Lead Agency receives an application for an <br />approval; and <br />2. the remaining 25 percent of the perimeter of the site adjoins <br />parcels that had been previously developed for qualified urban <br />uses; <br />(b) No parcel within the site has been created within the past 10 years <br />unless the parcel was created as a result of the plan of a redevelopment <br />agency. <br />(Public Resources Code Section 21061.3.) <br />11.30 City to determine <br />whether an EIR, a Negative Declaration, or a Mitigated Negative Declaration must be <br />prepared or to identify the significant environmental effects to be analyzed in an EIR. <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 11-6 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br /> <br />