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The Village Santa Ana Specific Plan Entitlements & Development Agreement (1561 W. Sunflower Avenue) August 11, 2025 Page 22 Morning Sunwood, Thornton Park, Sunwood Central, and the Rosewood Baker neighborhood associations to ensure they were aware of the Project and public hearings. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT GPU Final Program Environmental Impact Report (“Final PEIR”) In April 2022, the City certified the GPU Final PEIR (SCH No. 2020029087) and adopted the GPU. The GPU Final PEIR is a program environmental impact report that examines the existing environment and the total scope of environmental effects that would occur as a result of buildout of the GPU land uses. The GPU Final PEIR, comprehensively evaluated the potential environmental impacts stemming from adoption of the GPU and subsequent implementing projects. Moreover, this type of environmental document allows subsequent implementing activities, such as the proposed Project, to be evaluated through “tiering.” Tiering refers to the coverage of general matters in broader EIRs, such as the GPU Final PEIR, with subsequent narrower EIRs or ultimately site-specific EIRs incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the EIR subsequently prepared, such as in the case of the Project’s Supplemental EIR. Tiering is appropriate when the sequence of EIRs is (1) from a general plan, policy, or program EIR to a program, plan, or policy EIR of lesser scope or to a site- specific EIR, (2) from an EIR on a specific action at an early stage to a subsequent EIR or a supplement to an EIR at a later stage. The Project Site is located within the SBSFA and has a land use designation of DC-5, which has a maximum FAR of 5.0, a maximum of 125 dwelling du/ac, and a maximum height of 25 stories. This level of redevelopment was included in the GPU Final PEIR buildout, and applicable mitigation measures were identified, as necessary, to reduce impacts. A project is consistent with the GPU if the development density and intensity does not exceed what was contemplated and analyzed in the certified GPU EIR and complies with the associated standards applicable to that development density (State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183(i)(2)). Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) In compliance with CEQA, and as required by Public Resources Code (PRC) Section 21166 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, the City of Santa Ana has prepared a SEIR that evaluates the potential of the proposed Project to result in new or substantially greater environmental impacts than previously identified in the GPU Final PEIR. The City’s certified PEIR examines the impacts associated with buildout of the Santa Ana General Plan. Once a Program EIR is prepared, subsequent activities within the program or changes to the program must be evaluated to determine whether additional CEQA documentation needs to be prepared. The Project Site is within the SBSFA and development of the site was analyzed in the GPU Final PEIR at a programmatic level at 5.0 FAR and 125 du/ac assumption per the