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Chapter 3 Findings Regarding Project Alternatives
<br />Table 3-2
<br />Land Use Type
<br />Alternative 3 and
<br />Affemative 3
<br />Proposed Transit Zoning Code (SD 84A and SD 84B)
<br />Characteristics
<br />Trans# Zoning Code (SD 84A and SD 846) ` Werence
<br />Residential (units)
<br />2,026
<br />4,075
<br />(2,049)
<br />Retail (so
<br />351,000
<br />387,000
<br />(36,000)
<br />Industrial (so
<br />(990,000)
<br />(990,000)
<br />0
<br />Commercial (so
<br />(124,000)
<br />(124,000)
<br />0
<br />Civic (so
<br />(21,000)
<br />(21,000)
<br />0
<br />Green (so
<br />680,000
<br />680,000
<br />0
<br />Parking
<br />(1,534,000)
<br />(1,772,000)
<br />(238,000)
<br />SOURCE: PBS &J 2010
<br />Findings
<br />The City hereby finds that specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations make
<br />the adoption of Alternative 3 infeasible.
<br />Although Alternative 3 would reduce a significant and unavoidable impact of the proposed project to
<br />aesthetics (shading and shadows) to a less than significant level, it would restrict development within the
<br />City to low- to mid -rise development, which would not meet project objectives to the same extent as the
<br />proposed project.
<br />Specifically, this restriction would require a reduction in housing (including affordable housing) from
<br />4,075 units to 2,026 units, which would not meet Santa Ana's Regional Housing Needs Assessment for
<br />2006 -2014, which call for 3,393 units, 1,248 of which must be affordable for low, very low, and extremely
<br />low income households. The City of Santa Ana has a great need for affordable housing — sixty percent of
<br />the households in Santa Ana have low, very low, and extremely low incomes. (City of Santa Ana General
<br />Plan Draft Housing Element, Appendix A, p. A -10.) Goal 2 of the Housing Element is to "provide a
<br />diversity of quality housing, affordability levels, and living experiences that accommodate Santa Ana's
<br />residents and workforce of all household types, income levels, and age groups to foster an inclusive
<br />community." Alternative 3 would not meet this goal to the same extent as the proposed project.
<br />Similarly, it would not meet Housing Element policy 2.2, set forth below, to the same extent as the
<br />proposed project:
<br />HE -2.2 District Centers. Create high intensity, mixed -use urban villages and 24 -hour
<br />pedestrian- oriented experiences that support the mid -to high -rise office centers,
<br />commercial activity, and cultural activities in the varied District Centers.
<br />Alternative 3 would also fail to implement the following Housing Element policies to the same extent as
<br />the proposed project:
<br />HE -2.1 Downtown. Strengthen Santa Ana's core as a vibrant mixed -use and mixed- income
<br />environment by capitalizing on the government center, arts district, and historic
<br />downtown and facilitating transit- oriented development and diverse
<br />neighborhoods.
<br />Revised Station District Project and FOIL Settlement Agreement Findings of Fact/Statement of Overriding 3_7
<br />Considerations
<br />8OA -78
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