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General Plan Excerpt Per Comment Project Consistent land uses such as industrial uses next to residential or residential uses next to high noise level uses, (e.g. airports). Policy 5.4: Support land uses which are consistent with As described previously, the proposed project is the Land Use Plan of the Land Use Element consistent with the build out intensity of the site as anticipated by the General Plan. In addition, the project is consistent with provision of a gateway to the City and existing development along the Main Street corridor. In addition, the General Plan land use map designates the surrounding areas to the northwest, northeast, south of the Santa Ana I-5 Freeway and along Main Street north of Seventeenth Street as District Centers. Thus, the District Center land use designation of the site is consistent with the surrounding District Center designations along Main Street. Policy 5.5: Encourage development which is compatible As described in the previous responses, the proposed with, and supportive of surrounding land uses. project would provide multi -family residential units along the Main Street urban multi -use corridor and adjacent to single-family residential uses. Although the single- family residences consist of low -density one-story structures, the change of the site from an office use, to a residential use (although higher in density) would not result in incompatibility. In addition, the project site is within an employment, shopping, and business area that the proposed residential uses would support. "[T]he majority of employed Santa Ana residents work Section 4.9, Population and Housing, describes that the outside of the City, approximately 20 percent work Santa Ana and City of Orange areas are jobs -rich. The within the City. existing jobs -housing ratio is 2.06 in Santa Ana and is projected to be 2.13 in 2040. The SCAG preferred jobs — housing ratio is 1.36. The project would reduce the jobs -housing ratio slightly to 2.05, and to 2.11 in 2040, as shown in Draft EIR Table 4.9-7. This would be a beneficial effect of providing multi -family housing on the project site, where employees can easily travel to employment opportunities within the Santa Ana and City of Orange areas, which are jobs -rich. Approximately 70 percent of all residential areas within As described by the City's General Plan Housing the City are single-family residential neighborhoods. Element (on page 15), Santa Ana has a rich mosaic of Many of these neighborhoods are established and well diverse neighborhoods many of which are made up of a maintained, and several neighborhoods contain state mixture of single-family, townhomes, apartments, and a and local historic resources. combination of industrial and residential uses. In addition, it states (on page 44) that to protect and stabilize residential neighborhoods, Santa Ana is developing new residential neighborhoods in District Centers close to employment centers to provide a diverse community that increases housing choice to 11 11A-119