2024-053 - Final Supplemental for The Related Bristol Specific Plan Project

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Finding: The City of Santa Ana finds that the Build Out of the Existing Zoning Alternative would not assist the City in meeting its jobs/housing balance. In addition, the Reduced Project Alternative would not eliminate all of the significant and unavoidable impacts of the proposed Project or eliminate the need for mitigation. In fact, it would create an additional significant unavoidable impact related to traffic noise. Thus, the Build Out of the Existing Land Use and Zoning Alternative would not achieve the Project objectives to the same extent as the proposed Project. The Build Out of the Existing Zoning Alternative is rejected on that basis. Environmentally Superior Alternative Section 15126.6(e)(2) of the CEQA Guidelines indicates that an analysis of alternatives to a proposed project shall identify an environmentally superior alternative among the alternatives evaluated in an EIR. The CEQA Guidelines also state that should it be determined that the No Project/No Build Alternative is the environmentally superior alternative, the EIR shall identify another environmentally superior alternative among the remaining alternatives. The Reduced Project Alternative would reduce the Project's significant and unavoidable operational air quality impacts to a less than significant level. However, significant and unavoidable impacts related to construction air quality emissions and parkland deficiencies would continue to occur from implementation of this alternative. In addition, the Reduced Project Alternative would result in a reduced beneficial impact. Eliminating the hotel and providing less commercial space on the Project site would result in fewer opportunities for the creation of new jobs. This alternative would continue to require mitigation related to air quality, cultural resources, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards and hazardous materials, noise, and tribal cultural resources to reduce impacts to a less than significant level. In addition, Reduced Project Alternative would meet the Project objectives but not to the same extent as the proposed Project. While the Reduced Project Alternative would result in additional employment, it would not result in the creation of new jobs to the same extent as the proposed Project. The Reduced Project Alternative would introduce mixed -uses to the Project site and would provide for new economic activity, but to a lesser extent as no hotel would be developed and less commercial square footage would be developed. Overall, this alternative would meet the objectives of the proposed Project, but not to the same extent as the proposed Project (Draft Supplemental EIR, pp. 6-30 through 6-34.)