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

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O. Public Services Fire Protection Service: The geographic context for cumulative fire protection and emergency services is the C)CFA service area within the City of Santa Ana because the City owns and maintains the 10 existing f ire stations within the City. Staffing of the fire stations is done through contracting with GCFA. Thus, augmenting the existing fire station facilities, equipment, and staffing is under the jurisdiction of the City. Like the proposed Project, buildout of the City pursuant to the GPU would involve redevelopment of existing lands for more intensive uses; and the projects would be reviewed by City and C)CFA staff prior to permit approval to ensure that the projects implement fire protection design features per California building and fire code regulations that would reduce potential fire hazards. Cumulative increased demands for services would also be offset by the City of Santa Ana fire facilities fee that is required for each city development project. There are ten cumulative projects within Santa Ana in the Project vicinity that would combine to generate additional demands for C)CFA services from the six City -owned fire stations located within approximately 4 miles of the Project site, including Stations 76 and 77 that are firstand second responding stations to the Project site. Four of the ten other projects include multi -family housing. The four other residential projects are anticipated to provide a total of 2,088 new residential units. Because six of the City's ten existing fire stations are located approximately 4 miles of the Project site, and related projects would be subject to the same impact fees that provide funding for additional equipment and staffing, and fire safe construction requirements, impacts related to fire services from the proposed Project would not combine with other related projects to result in a cumulative impact related to the need for new or physically altered fire service facilities. Further, as disclosed in the GPU FEIR, fire vehicles, staff, equipment, and expansion of existing facilities would be funded by the 10-year cash contract with C)CFA that is valid until 2030 and buildout pursuant to the GPU would result in less than significant impacts to fire protection services. Therefore, cumulative impacts associated with fire services would be less than cumulatively considerable. (Draft Supplemental EIR at pp. 5.1 1-6 through 5.1 1-7.) Police Services:_The geographic context for cumulative police services is the area served by the City of Santa Ana Police Department. The proposed Project would result in an incremental increase in demands on law enforcement services and based on the Police Department's 2022 staffing of 0.98 officers per thousand population, the proposed Project would require approximately 9 additional officers based on buildout of the proposed Project. These additional officers would be accommodated by the proposed administrative Police Department substation on the site. Table 5-1 of the Draft Supplemental EIR lists projects within the Police Department's Southcoast District that would be served by the same Police Department patrol staffing. Because the proposed Project includes an administrative Police Department substation facility and payment of development impact fees, as required for all development projects, it would provide facilities to accommodate police protection demands from Project residents and residents in the vicinity of the proposed Project, including residents of other cumulative projects. The expansion of police services is funded by business taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and utility users' taxes that are generated by each development within the City. Additional Police Department personnel and associated equipment are provided through City's the annual budget review process. Because the proposed Project would provide an administrative Police Department substation on the