Item 21 - Public Hearing - Amendments to the Transit Zoning Code (SD-84) Zoning District and Citywide Zoning Code

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MM4.5-6 The City Public Works Department shall consult with the Santa Ana Police Department and the Santa Ana Fire Department to disclose temporary closures and alternative travel routes in order to ensure adequate access for emergency vehicles when construction of future projects would result in temporary land or roadway closures. (Impact 4.5-6) MM4.5-7 The Santa Ana Fire Department, in consultation with other applicable City Departments (e.g., Police), shall update their Emergency Preparedness Plan prior to occupancy of the first project developed under the Transit Zoning Code (SD 84A and SD 8413), to address the potential for the accidental release of hazardous materials that may be used, stored, and/or transported in association with operation of project implementation. (Impact 4.5-6) MM4.5-8 Project applicants shall submit evacuation plans on a project by project basis that shall be reviewed and approved by the City Police and Fire Departments. (Impact 4.5-6) Project Analysis and Conclusion The City determined that impacts related to people residing or working in the vicinity of a private airstrip/heliport and wildland areas would have no impact (DEIR Section 4.5.3: Effects Found to Have No Impact). Impacts related to transportation, storage and disposal of hazardous materials (Impact 4.5-1) and handling of hazardous materials near a school (Impact 4.5-3) were below the level of significance and did not require mitigation. Impacts related to reasonably upset of hazardous materials into the environment (Impact 4.5-2), hazardous materials sites (Impact 4.5-4), construction safety hazards for people or residing in the TZC area (Impact 4.5- 5) and interference with an adopted emergency response plan (Impact 4.5-6) were less than significant with the implementation of mitigation measures. The proposed adoption of the text regulations identified in Table 1 — Current and Proposed Text Regulations would not require preparation of a supplemental or subsequent EIR because specific development projects are neither included nor required. The new regulations would require that no material or waste shall be deposited upon a subject parcel in such form or manner that it may be transferred off the parcel by natural causes or forces and that all materials or wastes which might cause fumes or dust, or which constitute a fire hazard, or which may be edible by or otherwise be attractive to rodents or insects shall be stored outdoors only in closed containers. Land or buildings shall not be used or occupied in any manner so as to create any fire, explosive or other hazard. All activities involving the use or storage of combustible, explosive, caustic, or otherwise hazardous materials shall comply with all applicable local, State, and Federal safety standards and shall be provided with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion, and adequate firefighting and fire suppression equipment in compliance with City of Santa Ana regulations. The burning of waste materials in open fires without written approval of the Fire Department is prohibited. No activities shall be permitted which emit dangerous radioactivity at any point nor shall electrical disturbances which adversely affect the operation of any equipment, other than that of the creator of such disturbances, be allowed. No use, activity or process shall cause electromagnetic interference with normal radio and television reception, or with the function of other electronic equipment beyond the property line of the site in which it is situated. All uses, activities and processes shall comply with applicable Federal Communications Commission regulations. Any future development within the TZC area requiring discretionary action would continue to be subject to a project -level CEQA review at the time an application is filed for an individual project. Mitigation measures MM4.5-1 through MM4.5-8 would continue to apply. Therefore, the project does not trigger new hazards and hazardous materials impacts requiring the preparation of a subsequent or supplemental EIR. In addition, compliance with the existing regulations and January 2025 32 Environmental Analysis