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Responses to <br />Environmental Checklist <br />For CEQA Compliance <br />No Impact <br />The City of Santa Ana is a participant in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Communities <br />participating in the NFIP must adopt and enforce minimum floodplain management standards, including <br />identification of flood hazards and flood risks. Participation in the NFIP allows communities to purchase <br />low cost insurance protection against losses from flooding. The published Flood Insurance Rate Maps <br />(FIRM) for the project site is included on Community Panel No. 0602320144H. The project site is located <br />entirely in Zone X, which is defined as areas beyond the limits of the 100-year flood and 500-year flood. <br />The project site protected from the 1 percent annual chance flood by a levee constructed above the <br />natural bank of the Santa Ana River to the east of the project site. Since the implementation of the <br />proposed project would not place housing within a mapped flood hazard area, there would be no impact. <br />IX. Land Use and Planning <br />A. Physically divide an established community? <br />C. Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan or natural community plan? <br />No Impact <br />The project site is currently occupied by an existing church. The new development will continue the <br />existing development pattern and will not divide existing neighborhoods. The proposed project is located <br />in an urbanized setting and no locally designated species or natural communities are known to exist in the <br />project area. The site is not part of any habitat conservation plan or natural community preservation plan. <br />Therefore, there would be no impact. <br />B. Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or regulation of an agency with <br />jurisdiction over the project adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an <br />environmental effect? <br />Less than Significant Impact <br />The existing General Plan land use designation for the proposed project site is Low Density Residential <br />(R1) and the site is zoned General Agriculture (A1). Churches are a permitted use in the Al zone with a <br />conditional use permit. As proposed, the project consists of a 34,348 square foot expansion of an <br />existing church facility. Implementation of the proposed project would not be in conflict with the General <br />Plan or other applicable planning programs in the City. <br />X. Mineral Resources <br />A. Result in the loss of availability of a known mineral resource classified MRZ-2 by the State <br />Geologist that would be of value to the region and the residents of the state? <br />B. Result in the loss of availability of a locally important mineral resource recovery site <br />delineated on a local general plan, specific plan or other land use plan? <br />No Impact <br />According to the City's Updated General Plan Land Use Element EIR, there are no areas in Santa Ana <br />that are designated significant Mineral Aggregate Resource Areas. Therefore, implementation of the <br />proposed project would not result in the loss of any regionally or locally important mineral resource. As <br />the project site does not contain any natural mineral resources, no impact would occur <br />31 A-46 <br />