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

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South Coast Technology Center Project CEQA Exemption 15183 concentration exposure to people, or expose people or structures to significant risks. While buildout of the General Plan Update would require the installation and maintenance of associated infrastructure in areas that are undeveloped or vacant, which could exacerbate fire risk, no impact would occur related to VHFHSZs. 4.20.2 Project Analysis As stated in the GPU PEIR, the City does not contain any VHFHSZ and is not in or adjacent to an SRA. Therefore, the Project Site is not in or near SRAs or lands classified as VHFHSZs. As such, consistent with the GPU PEIR, no impact related to wildfire would occur as a result of the proposed Project. 4.20.3 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 wildfire than anticipated by the GPU PEIR. 4.20.4 Applicable GPU PEIR Regulatory Requirements/Mitigation Measures: No GPU PEIR regulatory requirements or mitigation measures apply. 5. Findings As discussed in Section 3.0, the proposed Project qualifies for a CEQA exemption under CEQA Guidelines Section 15183. The General Plan Update and GPU PEIR were adopted and certified by the Santa Ana City Council in 2022. The Project Site is located within the southwestern portion of the City on three parcels on the south side of Lake Center Drive in both the southeast and southwest corners of the intersection with Susan Street. The Project Site is designated Industrial (IND), which provides space for activities such as light and heavy manufacturing, warehousing, processing, and distribution as well as commercial uses ancillary to industrial activities. The Project Site is zoned SD-58. According to Ordinance No. NS-2089, permitted uses in the SD-58 District are professional and business offices providing personal and professional services including employment agencies, medical insurance, real estate, travel, trade contractors, architects, engineers, finance, research and development, and other similar use. The SD-58 District also allows commercial/retail uses, including service commercial uses such as daycare centers, banks and other financial institution, delicatessens, food stores, newsstands, automobile support facilities, health and exercise centers and other similar uses, office and computer equipment, copy centers and other similar uses, office and computer equipment, postal centers, restaurants, travel services, and other similar uses. The proposed Project would demolish the Lake Center Office Park, including the three existing buildings, a parking structure, and parking lots to construct three new Class A industrial buildings for office, manufacturing, and/or warehouse use. To allow the use of the proposed buildings, the Project proposes to amend SD-58 to allow for industrial uses. Specifically, SD-58 would be amended to allow for the use of Limited Light Industrial uses, consistent with the General Plan Update. The Project qualifies for an exemption from additional environmental review as set forth in CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 based on the following findings: July 2024 Page 100