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

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the growth identified in the GPU Final EIR, and impacts related to employment growth would be less than significant (Draft Supplemental EIR at p. 5.10-9). Job Housina Balance The City of Santa Ana is jobs rich, with an existing jobs -housing ratio of 2.0. The proposed Project would reduce (improve) the jobs -housing ratio slightly by adding 1,092 jobs and 3,750 residential units (a ratio of 0.29 jobs per non -senior residential unit). The proposed Project would provide a regional beneficial effect of providing multi -family housing on the Project site in a jobs -rich area, where employees can easily travel to nearby employment opportunities. In addition, because the area is jobs -rich, the addition of residential units in the area would not require additional jobs that could result in growth. Conversely, the new residents would fill the need for employees that are anticipated by SCAG projections. Thus, the additional residential units would not indirectly result in the need for additional employment opportunities, which could result in growth. Therefore, this indirect impact related to growth would be less than significant. The proposed Project is located in Transit Priority Area and is in close proximity to existing transportation infrastructure that provides mobility for residents to employment opportunities within the region. The Project site is 0.5 mile from 1-405, which is easily accessible via an interchange at Bristol Street. As detailed in Section 5.13, Transportation, the ©range County Transportation Agency operates seven bus routes with bus stops adjacent to the Project site. In addition, the Project site is bound by sidewalks on Bristol Street, MacArthur Boulevard, South Plaza Drive, and Sunflower Avenue; and the proposed Project would install new onsite and offsite pedestrian and bicycle facilities, which would connect to other existing pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The residents and employees of the proposed Project would have convenient access to sustainable multimodal transportation that would allow for walking, biking, and the use of existing transit, which could reduce vehicular trips and the related effects (such as traffic, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and noise impacts). Thus, the improved jobs -housing ratio would be an indirect physical benefit of the proposed Project (Draft Supplemental EIR at pp. 5.10-9 through 5.10-10). Infrastructure The Project site is adjacent to existing roadways that would not be extended or upsized to serve the proposed Project. Although the proposed Project includes roadway improvements, they are related to installing ingress/egress to the proposed uses on the Project site and providing a multi - modal circulation system by enhancing pedestrian and bicycle facilities. These roadway improvements would provide for efficient and multi -modal circulation to, from, and within the Project site and would not provide additional roadways or roadway capacity that could indirectly induce substantial unplanned growth in the area. As described in Section 5.15, Utilities and Service Systems of the Draft Supplemental EIR, the proposed Project would install a new onsite water infrastructure system that would connect to water pipelines adjacent to the site. The onsite improvements include construction of a new 12-inch water line in Bristol Paseo and replacement of the existing 12-inch water line in Callen's Common with a new 12-inch main and connection of the new onsite infrastructure to the replacement line. The