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RFP #21-017: On -Call Environmental Review Services for the
<br />Housing Division
<br />City of Santa Ana Community Development Agency
<br />Kelene Strain
<br />Project Manager
<br />Kcicnc Strain is a land use and environmental planner with 17 years of diverse
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<br />experience in planning, environmental analysis, and mitigation and conservation
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<br />banking. Throughout her career she has successfully managed and aided in the
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<br />preparation and coordination of environmental documentation in compliance with
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<br />CEQa, NEPA, and Tribal Environmental Policy Act. These environmental documents
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<br />include Program and Project EIRs, Supplemental EIRs, Focused EIRs, Addendumsto EIRs,
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<br />Environmental Assessments, Mitigation Monitoring Plans and Reports, ISs, and MNDs.
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<br />I<elene's range of project experience includes large-scale general plans; redevelopment
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<br />plans; specific plans; high -density and transit -oriented development; airports, schools,
<br />parks, and recreation facilities and trails; residential developments; hospital facilities,
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<br />renewable energy projects, commercial and retail complexes, casinos, and coastal
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<br />resort hotels.
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<br />Kclene also has experience in obtaining regulatory permit approvals from the US Army
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<br />Corps of Engineers (USACE), US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), California
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<br />Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), US Forest Service (USFS), Regional Water
<br />Quality Control Board (RWQCB), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
<br />(NOAA) Fisheries. She possesses experience in biological surveying, and wetland
<br />delineation and restoration, and mitigation banking compliance efforts that deliver
<br />regulatory permits and approvals, including Prospectuses, Operation and Management
<br />Plans, and Bank Entitlement Instruments.
<br />Kclene has worked closely with CDFW, the California Department of Parks and
<br />Recreation, and Orange County Parks as a volunteer wetland scientist and naturalist at
<br />both Bolsa Chico State Beach and Upper Newport Bay (Back Bay). Her efforts have
<br />included wildlife surveys, habitat restoration, trail maintenance and restoration, water
<br />quality monitoring, and environmental education and public outreach.
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<br />Project Manager. The Project involves the development of two residential buildings
<br />accommodating 6S units (64 rental units) of affordable housing for senior households,
<br />including a community center and recreational amenities. Building, 1 is proposed to
<br />include 41 one -bedroom units, and six two -bedroom units. Building 2 includes 18 one -
<br />bedroom units. The Project will provide a total of 59 one -bedroom units that average
<br />709 gross square feet in size and six two -bedroom units that average 871 gross square
<br />feet in size. The 3.9-acre Project site is currently home to Blessed Sacrament Episcopal
<br />Church, a well -established anchor in the community. The purpose of the project is to
<br />provide low- and moderate -income housing to seniors ages 62 and up earning less than
<br />60 percent of the AMI. Seniors have specialized housing needs and fixed incomes that
<br />are not ahle to meet the demand of market -rate housing. The project provides the
<br />opportunity for seniors to live in a safe, supportive, and affordable environment.
<br />Developing a housing community with rent -restricted units for senior residents would
<br />also enable the City to meet the unique housing need of senior residents and advance
<br />the City's effort to rneet their Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) of 231 units
<br />for low and very low-income households.
<br />ylr�r.rorr""ram City Council 15— 118 7/6/2021
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