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CAJA Environmental Services, LLC 9410 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Suite 101 Chatsworth, CA 91311 Phone 310-469-6700 Fax 310-806-9801 plan area. This is supported by the identification of several prehistoric sites composed of habitation debris and lithic materials. Furthermore, consultation with the Gabrielino Tribe indicated that portions of the City are located within cultural and historical sensitive areas.26 As recently reported in the City of Santa Ana Transit Zoning Code (SD 84A and SD 84B) EIR (the "Transit Zoning Code EIR"): Santa Ana is most directly associated with the Gabrielino (Tongva) whose tribal territory extended north from Aliso Creek to just beyond Topanga Canyon along the Pacific Coast, and inland to the City of San Bernardino (Bean and Smith 1978). However, it should be noted that tribal boundaries were likely fluid, allowing for contact, trade and diffusion of ideas among immediately neighboring groups, such as the Juaneno and Luiseno.27 Further, as discussed in the Tribal Cultural Resources Identification Memorandum for the South Coast Technology Center Project in the City: [Santa Ana is] a region traditionally important to multiple Native American groups. In particular, these include the Gabrielino (including the Tongva and Kizh), the Juaneno or Acjachemen, and the Luiseno.28 Historical Resources State CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.5 defines a historical resource as: 1) a resource listed in or determined to be eligible by the State Historical Resources Commission for listing in the California Register of Historical Resources; 2) a resource listed in a local register of historical resources or identified as significant in a historical resource survey meeting certain state guidelines; or 3) an object, building, structure, site, area, place, record or manuscript which a lead agency determines to be significant in the architectural, engineering, scientific, economic, agricultural, educational, social, political, military, or cultural annals of California, provided that the lead agency's determination is supported by substantial evidence in light of the whole record. Demolition or alteration of a historic resource could result in a significant impact to that resource. Mitigation measures, if feasible, would need to be provided. However, it is likely that even with the implementation of mitigation measures, demolition or alteration of a historic resource would result in a significant impact. Indirect impacts to historical resources could occur even if a construction site itself does not contain historical resources. These impacts would be to a nearby historical resource and could be temporary (such as damage to a historical resource from construction vibration) or permanent (such as from the new development altering the setting of the adjacent historical resource such that it no longer conveys 26 Id., p. 5.4-19. 27 Transit Zoning Code EIR, p. 4.4-1. 28 Michael Baker International, Tribal Cultural Resources Identification Memorandum for the South Coast Technology Center Project, City of Santa Ana, Orange County, California, p. 6 (Apr. 2024). 18