Item 23 - Amendment Application (Zone Change) No. 2024-01 to Amend the Zoning Map

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AA No. 2024-01, CUP No. 2024-01, and CUP No. 2024-02 for McDonald's Restaurant at 2101 and 2109 E. Santa Clara Avenue February 26, 2024 Page 9 The noise associated with the proposed project's drive -through operations were evaluated as part of the environmental document prepared (i.e., Initial Study Mitigated Negative Declaration). The document concluded that the noise levels associated with the parking lot, drive -through window, and menu board were below the City's noise limits for nearby land uses. Nevertheless, to ensure that the 24-hour operations are not detrimental to the health, safety, or general welfare, staff is recommending conditions of approval that would help ensure that the operations would not generate noise impacts or that would help reduce the impacts to negligible conditions. These conditions of approval include maintaining a landscape buffer along the southern and western property lines, and ensuring that the project complies with the City's Noise Ordinance at all times. As described above, the landscaping would be required to be mature and evergreen, be required to be maintained throughout the lifetime of the CUP, and be maintained healthy. Police Department Analysis The Police Department reviews conditional use permit applications for after-hours operations in order to ensure that potential crime or nuisance behaviors associated with such a use are mitigated to the greatest extent possible. For after-hours operations, the Police Department analyzes the crime rate in the area by matching the location of the subject site's census tract to the corresponding Police Grid. The City of Santa Ana contains up to 102 police reporting grids. The Police Department generates an annual report, the Citywide Incident Ranking report, which ranks these reporting grids based on police activity. The Police Department then compares the number of such crimes in the reporting district as compared to the number of crimes in other reporting districts. In keeping with the standard used by the State Business and Professions Code, should the Police Department determine that the reporting district has a 20 percent greater number of reported crimes than the average number found in all reporting districts, the Police Department would consider this information in making its recommendation. Table 4: Police Department Analysis and Criteria for Recommendation Police Department Analysis and Criteria for Recommendation Police Grid No. and Police Grid No. 242; ranked 82 out of 102 Police Reporting Grids (81s' Rank percentile). Threshold for High This reporting district is below the 20 percent threshold established by Crime the State for high crime. As part of the review approval process, this application was analyzed by the Santa Ana Police Department. Based on the Police Department's Police Department most recent Citywide Incident Ranking Report, the Police Department Recommendation has no issues of concern regarding the activity in that area, due to no significant events occurring. Therefore, the Police Department does not oppose the granting of a CUP for 24-hour operations.