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.�Plan <br />Consistency <br />Land Use Element <br />POLICYLU-1.8 DEVELOPMENT TRADEOFFS <br />The Specific Plan increases housing for the City while <br />Ensure that new development projects provide <br />providing publicly accessible open space and expanding <br />a net community benefit. <br />retail/commercial options. The Plan will create a space <br />for shopping, dining and recreation as well as encourage <br />walkable connections to the great South Coast shopping <br />area. <br />POLICYLU-1.9 PUBLIC FACILITIESAND <br />Chapter 3, Development Plan provides the proposed <br />INFRASTRUCTURE <br />infrastructure plan to support development of the Village <br />Evaluate individual new development proposals <br />which will not compound existing public facility and service <br />to determine if the proposals are consistent <br />deficiencies. <br />with the General Plan and to ensure that they <br />do not compound existing public facility and <br />service deficiencies. <br />POLICYLU-2.1 EMPLOYMENT <br />Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, the Plan provides for a mixed -use <br />OPPORTUNITIES <br />development that will increase housing andjob opportunity, <br />Provide a broad spectrum of land uses <br />in accordance with the General Plan and the designated <br />and development that offer employment <br />focus area. The Plan will create new spaces for a variety of <br />opportunities for current and future Santa Ana <br />commercial and retail uses. <br />residents. <br />POLICYLU-2.3 SUPPORTIVE SPACES <br />Chapter 2, one of the primary goals of the Plan is to foster a <br />Provide a diversity of land uses that support <br />neighborly environment where residents can live, work, and <br />residents, visitors, and businesses, such as <br />recreate in a vibrant village community. Through a variety <br />open space, areas for community gatherings, <br />of land uses, and plans to encourage walkability, safety, <br />and outdoor entertainment venues. <br />shopping and dining the Plan will create community centric <br />spaces for residents of all ages and abilities. <br />POLICYLU-2.5 BENEFITS OFMIXED-USE <br />Chapter 2 and 3, A primary focus of the plan is to transform <br />Encourage infill mixed -use development at all <br />conventional auto -oriented shopping plazas into dynamic <br />ranges of affordability to reduce vehicle miles <br />nodes of activity that blend healthy living, working, <br />traveled, improvejobs/housing balance, and <br />shopping, and dining in a contemporary village environment. <br />promote social interaction <br />Increasing housing opportunities adjacent to retail and <br />commercial centers encourages residents to walk or bike for <br />essential shopping needs. <br />POLICYLU-2.10 SMART GROWTH <br />Chapter 2, The plan is designated in the Bristol Street <br />Focus high density residential in mixed -use <br />focus area. The new development will achieve the vision to <br />villages, designated planning focus areas, <br />create high density housing within and along mixed- use <br />Downtown Santa Ana, and along major travel <br />villages. As noted by the Guiding Principles, in Chapter 2, <br />corridors. <br />unlike traditional commercial centers dominated by surface <br />parking, this neighborhood village will be the hub of activity, <br />designed within a parklike setting that creates an intimate <br />and relaxing environment. <br />The Village Santa Ana Specific Plan - August 2025 <br />