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Legacy Sunflower Apartments Page 92 Mitigated Negative Declaration – March 14, 2019 both construction and the life of the project, OCFA has sufficient personnel to serve the project without any significant impact to OCFA’s ability to continue to provide an adequate level of fire protection service to the community. The impact by the project to fire protection services would be less than significant. ii. Police protection? Less Than Significant Impact. The Santa Ana Police Department provides police protection services to the site from the police headquarters located at 60 Civic Center Plaza, which is approximately 1.5 miles east of the site. The project could require police protection services during project construction to respond to theft, vandalism, accidents and other construction related police emergencies. Once constructed, the project would require operational police services such as routine police patrols, vandalism, break-ins, and other service calls associated with residential development. While the project would require construction and operational police protection services, the project would not significantly impact the Police Department’s ability to continue to provide an adequate level of service to the community. The impact by the project to police services would be less than significant. iii. Schools? Less Than Significant Impact. The project is served by the Santa Ana Unified School District. Any students generated by the project would attend Taft Elementary school, McFadden Intermediate school and Saddleback High School. The project proposes 226 apartments and is estimated to generate approximately 117 students for grades elementary through high school.37 The schools that would serve the project have the current permanent capacity to accommodate the additional students without impacting the capacity of the schools, with the exception of Taft Elementary school. Taft Elementary school has a current capacity of 505 students and a current enrollment (2018-2019) of 588 students. Because the school currently operates at 83 students over capacity, the additional 54 students generated by the project would further impact the student capacity at Taft Elementary school. As required by Government Code Section 65995, the project would pay the required developer fee towards the cost to offset impacts from the students that would be generated by the project. Currently the Santa Ana Unified School District developer fee for residential use is $3.79 per square foot. The project developer would be required to pay the fee prior to the issuance of a building permit for the construction of the residential units. Payment of the required developer fee would reduce the impact to the Santa Ana Unified School District to less than significant. iv. Parks? Less Than Significant Impact. The closest public park to the project is Sandpointe Park that is located at 3700 S. Birch Street and approximately one-half mile northeast of the project. Sandpointe is a neighborhood park and provides basketball courts, exercise trail, multi-purpose field, playgrounds tennis courts, volleyball, etc. Also within one-half mile northwest of the project is Bomo Koral park that is located at 900 W. MacArthur Boulevard. Bomo Koral park is also a neighborhood park and has ball diamonds, multi-purpose fields, and picnic tables. While some project residents may use the recreational facilities at Sandpointe and Bomo Koral parks, it is anticipated that many project residents would use the on-site active recreational facilities including the fitness center, pool and spa, outdoor yoga and fitness court, residential gardens and outdoor dining and dog park and not significantly increase the use of Sandpointe and Bomo Koral parks or any other city park. The proposed on-site fitness center would meet the needs of some of the project residents. Any increase in the use of existing city park facilities by the project residents is anticipated to be minimal and not significantly impact existing Santa Ana park facilities. The project would not significantly impact existing parks in Santa Ana. 37 Santa Ana Unified School District, Jeremy Cogan, Director of Facilities Planning, letter dated January 23, 2019. 6-114