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

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Project Analysis and Conclusion The City determined that impacts related to conflicts with a natural community plan or applicable habitat conservation plan would have no impacts (DEIR Section 4.6.3: Effects Found to Have No Impact). Impacts related to incompatible land uses (Impact 4.7-1), potential to divide an established community (Impact 4.7-2), and conflicts with the Santa Ana General Plan (Impact 4.7-3) were below the level of significance and did not require mitigation. The proposed zoning ordinance amendments are consistent with various goals and policies of the Santa Ana General Plan, as required by Government Code Section 65860, by timely addressing current inconsistencies within an area of the City prioritized for addressing environmental justice and impacts were found to be less than significant. In effect, the amendments are necessary to address numerous policies of the General Plan that the current TZC is found to be inconsistent with, that without such amendments, will continue the path of irreconcilable land use patterns within the TZC area. Specifically, these policies include Policy LU-1.1 (Compatible Uses), Policy LU-2.4 (Cost and Benefit of Development), Policy LU-3.8 (Sensitive Receptors), Policy LU-3.9 (Noxious, Hazardous, Dangerous, and Polluting Uses), Policy LU-3.11 (Air Pollution Buffers), Policy LU-4.3 (Sustainable Land Use Strategies), Policy LU-4.6 (Healthy Living Conditions), Policy CM-3.2 (Healthy Neighborhoods), Policy EP-1.9 (Avoid Conflict of Uses), Policy EP-3.3 (Mitigate Impacts), Policy CN-1.5 (Sensitive Receptor Decisions), Policy CM-3.2 (Healthy Neighborhoods), and Policy HE-5.5 (Community Development), which are targeted at correcting past land use planning practices that have placed an unequitable environmental and health burden on certain neighborhoods now termed disadvantaged communities. The proposed amendments support these goals and policies by: • Fostering the compatibility between residential and nonresidential land uses within the TZC to enhance livability and promote healthier lifestyles. • Resolving the conflict of industrial land uses and sensitive receptors being in close proximity to each other that pose health hazards by eliminating an overlay zone that promulgated continuation of industrial uses without recourse. • Improving the health of the existing and future residents of the TZC by regulating the operations of noxious, hazardous, dangerous, and polluting uses by giving priority to the discontinuance of those uses. • Responding to overarching EJ policies to develop and implement land use and zoning strategies to separate existing sensitive uses from heave industrial facilities and emission sources. • Continuing to support the creation of healthy neighborhoods by addressing land use conflicts and incompatible uses through the elimination of the I-OZ zone and associated industrial land use types from the list of allowable land uses within the TZC. • Developing and adopting new regulations to address facilities that emit high levels increased pollution near sensitive receptors within EJ (Environmental Justice) area boundaries, which includes areas of the TZC. • Avoiding potential land use conflicts in the future by prohibiting the location of noxious land uses in proximity to sensitive receptors • Creating a sustainable land use plan for the area that phases out land uses that are causing a substantial drain on City and other public agency resources in addressing the impacts from irreconcilable land use conflicts in the TZC area. January 2025 37 Environmental Analysis