75B - PH - NEW PROPERTY OWNER 200 E FIRST AMERICAN WAY

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City of Santa Ana undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous negative declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity, of previously identified significant effects; or • New information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous negative declaration was adopted, shows that the project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous negative declaration or that the previously examined significant effects will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous negative declaration. Proposed Project and Environmental Documentation In January 2012, the City adopted the 2012 MND for The Project. The2012 MND analyzed the Proposed Project as the development of a 284-unit multi-family apartment complex on an approximately 3.1-acre site located at 200 East First American Way in the southeastern portion of the City of Santa Ana, with an approximately 0.6-acre portion of the site to remain undeveloped and vacant. The Proposed Project consisted of five stories of multi-family rental units in three buildings, all of which would be constructed over a subterranean parking structure that spans beneath all three buildings. Open space courtyard areas were proposed between the buildings over the parking structure. Figure 1 shows the site plan for the Proposed Project that was included in the 2012 MND. The parking structure was proposed to provide 625 parking spaces in two subterranean levels of parking, in addition to parking on the street level. Vehicular access to the project site and parking garage was proposed to be provided from East First American Way. All of the environmental Impacts of the Proposed Project identified in the 2012 MND were determined to result in no impacts or less-than-significant impacts, or impacts were determined to be reduced to less-than-significant levels with the incorporation of mitigation measures. Impacts on Aesthetics, Agricultural Resources, Hazards and Hazardous Materials, Hydrology, Land Use, Mineral Resources, Population and Housing, Recreation, and Utilities were determined to result in less-than- significant or no impacts. Impacts on Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Geology, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Noise, and Public Services (schools) were determined to be less than significant with mitigation incorporated. Approved Project As part of its final deliberations on the Project in April 2012, the City of Santa Ana City Council required minor modifications to the site plan for the Project. Figure 2 shows the modified site plan ultimately approved by the City Council. The modified site plan shifts some of the residential structures front the MacArthur Boulevard frontage to fronting along East First American Way. Additionally, the vacant area increases from 0.60 acres to 0.82 acres to accommodate a larger area for potential future development at the site. The modified site plan also shifts the location of the vacant parcel font the northeastern portion of the site to the southeastern portion of the site, thereby resulting in the vacant parcel fronting along MacArthur Boulevard rather than East First American Way. These minor modifications included in the Approved Project would not result in The Met at South Coast Multi-Family Residential Project June 2013 Final Mitigated Negative Declaration-Addendum 2 75B-60