Item 41 - Amendment Application No. 2022-01 and Appeal Nos. 2022-01 and 2022-02

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Community Plan Exemption Checklist City of Santa Ana Gary Avenue Business Park Project Project Significant Potentially Adverse No Peculiar Impact not Significant Impact New Impact that is Analyzed Offsite or More Impact not as Cumulative Severe Substantially Significant Impact not based on Mitigated by in the Prior Discussed in Substantial Uniformly EIR the prior EIR New Applied Information Policies 5.14 POPULATION AND HOUSING. Would the project: a) Induce substantial unplanned population growth in an area, either directly (for example, by proposing new homes and businesses) or indirectly (for example, through extension of roads or other infrastructure)? b) Displace substantial numbers of existing people or housing, necessitating the construction of replacement housing elsewhere? Summary of Impacts Identified in the GPU EIR ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ The GPU EIR addressed population and housing impacts on pages 5.1 3-12 through 5.1 3-15. The GPU EIR determined that full buildout of the GPU would result in a population of 431,629, and the City's 20A5 population growth would be approximately 20 percent greater than the Orange County Council of Governments' 20A5 projections. Furthermore, the city's housing units at buildout would be 115,053, which exceeds the Orange County Council of Governments' projection by 38 percent. The EIR determined that there are no feasible mitigation measures to mitigate the population and housing growth at buildout, and impacts would be significant and unavoidable. The proposed GPU would provide more housing opportunities than currently exist. Therefore, implementation of the GPU would not displace people and/or housing, and impacts related to people and housing displacement would not occur. Impacts Associated with the Proposed Project a) Induce substantial unplanned population growth in an area, either directly or indirectly? No New Impact. The proposed Project would not directly result in unplanned population growth because it does not propose any residential dwelling units and development of the Project would be consistent with the General Plan land use and zoning designations for the site, which are used by both local and regional agencies to determine anticipated growth. The FLEX-3 GPU land use designation allows for a FAR of 3.0 and the Interim Development Standard of M- 1 does not include standards for lot size or density. The proposed Project would result in a FAR of 0.42, which is within the allowable FLEX-3 FAR; and the Project would be consistent with the M-1 (Light Industrial) development standards. Therefore, the Project is consistent with conditions evaluated under the GPU EIR and the Project would result in no new impacts related to unplanned population growth. 83