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CEQA Class 32 Exemption – 400 W Warner Ave April 7, 2025 Page 4 of 10 The Project site is currently zoned M-1 and has a General Plan land use designation of IND. The Project is conditionally permitted, within this designation. The Project would be implemented consistent with all applicable General Plan and Zoning policies and regulations. The Project site consists of 4.99 acres and is located within the City of Santa Ana limits. Surrounding land uses include industrial uses, industrial/flex uses, residential uses, and institutional uses. Therefore, the proposed development occurs within City limits on a site of no more than five acres substantially surrounded by urban uses. The Project site is currently developed with urban uses surrounded by typical ornamental landscaping. According to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wetlands Inventory and Mapper, the Project site does not contain any wetland, riparian habitat or other sensitive natural community.1 The Project site is currently developed and located in an urbanized area of the City. The Project site is located within an area that has not been identified as containing species identified as a candidate, sensitive, or special status species in local or regional plans, policies or regulations or by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Therefore, the Project site has no value as habitat for endangered, rare or threatened species. The proposed retrofitting and operation of a project of this scale would not typically result in significant environmental impacts. For Class 32 Exemptions, the City requires the following reports: Focused Traffic Analysis, Air Quality /Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Assessment, and Noise Study. These reports have been prepared to support the finding of a Class 32 exemption for the Project and are summarized below. Focused Traffic Analysis The Focused Traffic Analysis is presented as Attachment B to this Memorandum. The existing permitted use (light industrial) would generate 57 passenger car equivalent (PCE) trips during the a.m. peak hour and 52 PCE trips during the p.m. peak hour. The trip generation for the existing use based on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation, 11th Edition Land Use Code 110 – General Industrial. Because the Project is an atypical land use, the trip generation for the Project used empirical data collected at three similar facilities – TOCA in Costa Mesa, Momentous in Irvine, and The Map in Garden Grove - with similar operations to calculate the peak hour trip generation and trip generation rate. As a result, the Project is anticipated to generate 11 trips during the AM peak hour and 95 net trips during the PM peak hour. The Project would generate 46 fewer trips than the currently permitted use during the AM peak hour and 43 additional trips during the PM peak hour. The City requires preparation of a traffic study if a project generates more than 50 peak hour trips. As shown above, although the Project would generate less than 50 peak hour trips, a Focused Traffic Analysis was conducted. The analysis concluded that all study intersections would operate at satisfactory levels of service under existing and existing plus Project conditions. According to the City of Santa Ana Traffic Impact Study Guidelines, several types of projects can be screened out from a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) assessment using the following criteria, indicating that these projects have the potential to reduce VMT per service population (VMT/SP) and result in a less-than significant transportation impact: 1 https://fwsprimary.wim.usgs.gov/wetlands/apps/wetlands-mapper/