Item 27 - Appeal Application Nos. 2020-03 and 2020-04 - Central Pointe Mixed-Use Development

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SWRCC APPEAL OF PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVAL OF CENTRAL POINTE PROJECT 2) (continued) the goal of providing affordable housing opportunities throughout the city. The Commission failed to address this issue and the project may not qualify to come under the Santa Ana Housing Opportunity Ordinance. SAMC 41-1607 and Public Res. Code Section 15162, 3) The Planning Commission failed to adequately address the well being of the community in ensuring that qualified Santa Ana residents, veterans and graduates or certificate holders of Santa Ana Unified School District and Rancho Santiago Community College District are provided a process to be included as part of the workforce constructing the project, thus ensuring the workforce would be more likely to have received safety training, reducing the risk of on the job injuries and construction defects and also increasing the economic benefit of the project and well being of the city residents. 4) Failure of the Planning Commission to ensure the maximum amount of viable commercial development on the project. While the staff did push the developer to add more commercial space and the developer agreed to an increase, the failure to require the maximum viable square footage of commercial space will lead to greater vehicle trips from the residents to commercial areas both withing Santa Ana as described in the Commission report, areas that are already inundated with traffic, but also to Tustin, sending sales tax revenue out of Santa Ana. This traffic increase due to the inadequate commercial sites that will exist to serve these new residents was not adequately studied by the Commission, something required under California environmental laws. The Carpenters requested a 30-60 day continuance by the Commission so these issues could be addressed but there was no action by the developer to respond to these issues in the only two week continuance due to a lack of a quorum. These issues are curable and the SWRCC are not trying to impede development but ensure that Santa Ana receives the maximum benefit on this valuable, strategic site. We ask the Council to have the developer applicant work with the SWRCC and other interested parties on the issues raised before the project is approved.