Item 28 - Public Hearing - ZOA No. 20204-01 South Coast Technology Center

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South Coast Technology Center Project CEQA Exemption 15183 population growth impacts resulting from implementation of the General Plan Update. Thus, the Project impacts related to substantial unplanned population growth would be less than significant. Additionally, the Project Site does not currently contain any residential uses and the proposed Project would not displace existing people or housing. Therefore, consistent with the GPU PEIR, no impacts would occur. Based on the above, the Project would not result in new or substantially more severe impacts compared to the determinations of the GPU PEIR, which concluded that impacts related to substantial unplanned population growth would be significant and unavoidable and displacement of people and housing would not occur. Therefore, no new project -specific mitigation measures are required. 4.14.3 Conclusion The Project is consistent with the General Plan Update and would not have any specific effects which are peculiar to the Project or the Project Site. There are no Project specific impacts or potentially significant off -site or cumulative impacts that the GPU PEIR did not analyze, and there are no new significant or substantially more severe impacts to population and housing than anticipated by the GPU PEIR. 4.14.4 Applicable GPU PEIR Regulatory Requirements/Mitigation Measures No GPU PEIR regulatory requirements or mitigation measures apply. 4.15 Public Services 4.15.1 GPU PEIR Findings The GPU PEIR concluded that introduction of new structures and additional residents and workers to the City would increase the demand for fire and police protection services. However, funding for additional staff, equipment, and facilities would come from property taxes, grants, special revenue funds, and the City's general fund as future development accommodated by the General Plan Update occurs. The additional demand for fire and police protection services due to population growth generated within the City would be satisfied through these sources. Additionally, development under the General Plan Update would comply with the California Fire and Building Codes, California Health and Safety Code, City ordinances, and applicable national standards and would require approval of Building Plan Check for Site Plan and Emergency Access as well as approval of a Fire Master Plan. Moreover, as part of the project review process, the Santa Ana Police Department may require project design features to improve security on -site. Additionally, the GPU PEIR determined that some school districts within the City would have the capacity to accommodate future students generated as a result of the proposed General Plan Update. Should there be a need to expand or construct new facilities, funding for new schools would be obtained from the mitigation fee program pursuant to SB 50, and state and federal funding programs. Pursuant to Section 65996 of the Government Code, payment of school fees is deemed to provide full and complete school facilities mitigation (RR SS-1). Further, while library services would also experience an increase in demand, property taxes and library fines and fees are expected to offset this increased demand. Overall, impacts related to public services would be less than significant. July 2024 Page 88