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

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D. Biological Resources Development of cumulative projects could result in direct take of special -status species, construction and post -construction disturbances, special -status habitat conversion, and/or disruption of wildlife corridors. The Project site is heavily disturbed, graded, and is developed with 16 commercial buildings that are surrounded by paved surfaces, and is located within an urbanized area. No endangered, rare, threatened, or special status plant species (or associated habitats) or wildlife species designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), or California Native Plant Society are known to occur on or adjacent to the site. In addition, there are no riparian habitat or other sensitive natural communities as identified in local or regional plans, policies, or regulations, or by the CDFW or USFWS. The Project site does not contain federally protected wetlands or jurisdictional areas that would be subject to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, nor does it contain or is adjacent to any wildlife corridors. The proposed Project would therefore have less than significant impacts to biological resources. (Draft Supplemental EIR at pp. 5.16-8 through 5.16-10.) However, as with the proposed Project, all future cumulative development would undergo environmental review on a project -by -project basis, to evaluate potential impacts to biological resources and ensure compliance with the established regulatory framework. As such, cumulative Project impacts on biological resources would be less than significant. E. Cultural Resources Historic Resources: The proposed Project's contribution to cumulative impacts to historical resources was analyzed in context with past and reasonably foreseeable future projects in the City of Santa Ana and adjacent areas in Costa Mesa that were similarly influenced by the historical agricultural and then commercial and residential uses in the region. The cumulative impacts are evaluated in light of development projections in the City's GPU and GPU FEIR that evaluates conditions contributing to the cumulative effect and describes that the South Bristol Street Focus Area has a low potential to contain built environment historical resources. The record searches and field surveys indicate that there are no structures on the Project site or adjacent properties that would qualify as historic resources, and no impacts related to historic resources would occur. Therefore, implementation of the proposed Project would have no potential to contribute towards a significant cumulative impact to historical sites and/or resources. Thus, cumulative impacts from the proposed Project would be less than significant. Archaeological Resources: The cumulative study area for archaeological resources includes the Southern California region, which contains the same general prehistoric uses and migration trends as the Project area. The cumulative impacts are evaluated in light of development projections in the City's GPU and GPU FEIR that evaluate conditions contributing to the cumulative effects to archaeological resources. There is a possibility that ground -disturbing activities during Project construction may uncover or disturb unknown archaeological resources. However, the proposed Project would implement GPU FEIR Mitigation Measures CUL-6 and Project -specific Mitigation Measures CR-1 and CR-2 that would reduce the potential impact to unknown resources to a less than significant level. The likelihood of uncovering multiple currently unknown resources within the Project site that is sufficient to create a significant cumulative impact is low given the built nature of the Project site and City of Santa Ana and few archaeological resources that have been found in