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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) DEFINITIONS <br /> <br />ecological processes, and biota. A riparian area is an area through which surface and <br />subsurface hydrology connect waterbodies with their adjacent uplands. A riparian <br />area includes those portions of terrestrial ecosystems that significantly influence <br />exchanges of energy and matter with aquatic ecosystems. A riparian area is adjacent <br />to perennial, intermittent, and ephemeral streams, lakes, and estuarine-marine <br />shorelines. <br />11.64 <br />and the previously graded and maintained shoulder that is within a roadway right-of- <br />way of no more than five feet from the edge of the roadway. <br />11.65 <br />any of the physical conditions within the area affected by the activity including land, <br />air, water, minerals, flora, fauna, ambient noise, and objects of historic or aesthetic <br />significance. A social or economic change related to a physical change may be <br />considered in determining whether the physical change is significant. <br />11.66 Value as a Wildlife Habit <br />statewide, regional, or local importance; habitat for species protected by the federal <br />Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. Sec. 1531, et seq.), the California <br />Endangered Species Act (Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 2050) of Division 3 <br />of the Fish and Game Code), or the Native Plant Protection Act (Chapter 10 <br />(commencing with Section 1900) of Division 2 of the Fish and Game Code); habitat <br />identified as candidate, fully protected, sensitive, or species of special status by local, <br />state, or federal agencies; or habitat essential to the movement of resident or <br />migratory wildlife. <br />11.67 <br />for training, research, development, or evaluation for a military service, as that land <br />area is established by the United States Department of Defense Flight Information <br />Imagery and Mapping Agency or <br />its successor. <br />11.68 . <br />11.69 <br />(1) A quantitative, qualitative or performance requirement found in a statute, <br />ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order, or other standard of general <br />application; <br />(2) Adopted for the purpose of environmental protection; <br />(3) Adopted by a public agency through a public review process; <br />(4) Governs the same environmental effect which the change in the environment <br />is impacting; and <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 11-12 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br /> <br />