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AA No. 2024-01, CUP No. 2024-01, and CUP No. 2024-02 for McDonald's Restaurant at <br />2101 and 2109 E. Santa Clara Avenue <br />February 26, 2024 <br />Page 16 <br />each of the scenarios proposed above. The queuing analysis findings are presented in <br />Appendix K to the Draft IS/MND. <br />As concluded by the Transportation Analysis, the addition of project traffic would not <br />trigger the City of Santa Ana's significance criteria, and no traffic signal is warranted for <br />either intersection, intersection of the Driveway 1 (located along Santa Clara Avenue) and <br />Santa Clara Avenue, and the intersection between Tustin Avenue and Driveway 2 <br />(located along Tustin Avenue). Moreover, the Transportation Analysis performed a drive - <br />through analysis to determine if the proposed circulation plan provided adequate on -site <br />drive -through storage capacity to accommodate the peak on -site vehicle demand. <br />Ultimately, the drive -through analysis suggested that the project would provide stacking <br />accommodations for approximately 16 vehicles within the drive -through, and there would <br />be sufficient capacity to accommodate average and peak vehicle demands for the <br />proposed project. <br />In 2013, the State of California signed into law Senate Bill 743 (SB 743), which changes <br />how transportation impacts are analyzed under the California Environmental Quality Act <br />(CEQA) in order to help reduce transportation impacts. Specifically, in an effort to reduce <br />greenhouse gas impacts and create long-term sustainability, SB 743 changed the <br />standard for evaluating transportation impacts under CEQA from a LOS standard to <br />Vehicle Miles Traveled ("VMT") standard. This statewide mandate went into effect July 1, <br />2020. In 2019, the City of Santa Ana adopted Traffic Impact Study Guidelines (dated <br />September 2019), which states that several types of projects can be screened out from a <br />VMT assessment using identified criteria, indicating that these projects have the potential <br />to reduce VMT per service population and result in a less -than -significant transportation <br />impacts. The City's Guidelines list standardized screening methods for project level VMT <br />analysis that can be used to identify when a proposed land use development project is <br />anticipated to result in a less than significant impact thereby eliminating the need to <br />conduct a full VMT analysis. The City of Santa Ana VMT screening types, as described <br />within the City Guidelines, are listed below: <br />Transit Priority Area (TPA) Screening <br />Low VMT Area Screening <br />Project Type Screening <br />A land use project need only to meet one of the above screening thresholds to result in a <br />less than significant impact. Pursuant to the VMT Screening Evaluation prepared by <br />Urban Crossroads, the project did not meet the threshold for TPA or Low VMT screening. <br />However, the project was found to meet the Project Type screening criteria. Pursuant to <br />the City of Santa Ana Traffic Impact Study Guidelines (dated September 2019), local <br />serving retail projects less than 50,000 square feet may be presumed to have a less than <br />significant impact absent substantial evidence to the contrary. The proposed project <br />