Item 26 - Public Hearing Regarding Bristol Project

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Exhibit 13 Consistent and Supaortive General Plan Goals and Policies o Policy UD-7.1 First Impression. Strengthen the architectural design of developments near gateways to communicate a sense of arrival and inspire positive images of the City. o Policy UD-7.2 Streetscape Improvements. Enhance Santa Ana's gateways to include unique and distinctive streetscape improvements. The project is consistent with these General Plan Urban Design Element goals and policies. The project improves a major site at a gateway intersection leading into Santa Ana by redeveloping an outdated, auto -oriented strip -commercial center with a dynamic, mixed -use urban village that complements the scale an intensity of existing developments surrounding the project site. Through onsite private streets and improvements to public streets along the site's street frontages, the specific plan will create attractive travelways and establish activity nodes at the intersections of Bristol Street and Sunflower Avenue, and Bristol Street and MacArthur Boulevard, near the interchange of Bristol Street and the San Diego (1-405) Freeway. The redevelopment of the existing site will establish a new gateway into Santa Ana that is consistent with the South Bristol Street Focus Area's vision for the project site. • Goal HE-1: Livable and affordable neighborhoods with healthy and safe housing conditions, community services, well -maintained infrastructure, and public facilities that inspire neighborhood pride and ownership. o Policy HE-1.3 Complete Neighborhoods. Improve neighborhood quality by locating or providing access to complementary services and public facilities, including the integration of community gardens and access to healthy food options in neighborhoods. o Policy HE-1.4. Healthy Neighborhoods. Create and maintain parks and open spaces; plant trees, green parkways, and medians; support access to healthy food options; and maintain a continuous pattern of pathways that encourage an active and healthy lifestyle. o Policy HE-1.10. Parking Management. Support innovative and creative strategies that proactively minimize parking impacts and deficiencies within residential neighborhoods, including parking management requirements, installation of parking lifts, and incentives for active transportation. • Goal HE-2. Foster an inclusive community with a diversity of quality housing, affordability levels, and living experiences that accommodate Santa Ana's residents and workforce of all household types, income levels, and age groups. o Policy HE 2.3. Urban Villages. Create higher intensity, mixed -use urban villages and pedestrian -oriented experiences that access and support the office centers, commercial services, and cultural activities within District Centers and Urban Neighborhood designated areas. Page 8 of 10