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City of Santa Ana Environmental Checklist <br /> Consistency <br />Goal, Objective, or Policy Consistency Discussion Determination <br />Goal 5 - Ensure that the The proposed project is subject to an evaluation of Consistent <br />impacts of development are potential impacts as required by State CEQA law, <br />mitigated. As the Lead Agency, the City of Santa Ana <br /> determined that a Mitigated Negative Declaration <br /> would be sufficient to ensure that the impacts of <br /> development are mitigated to a level below <br /> significance. A complete discussion of the project's <br /> potential impacts and mitigation measures are <br /> included within this MND document, which <br /> ensures that the impacts of the proposed <br /> development are mitigated through the proposed <br /> mitigation measures; therefore, the project would <br /> be consistent with this goal. <br />Policy 2.10 - Support new The project would result in the redevelopment of a Consistent <br />development which is parcel that would be similar to the existing <br />harmonious in scale and religious uses on the project site. Existing <br />character with existing development within the area includes religious, <br />development in the area, commercial, office, medical, and single- and multi- <br /> family residential uses. The New Spirit Baptist <br /> Church, which is a single-story building, is located <br /> adjacent to the project site to the north. The Lao <br /> Evangelical Church, located south and adjacent to <br /> the project site, is also a single-story building. To <br /> the east and west of the project site are a variety of <br /> single-family residential homes, and a <br /> development of two-story multi-family townhomes <br /> occurs west of the project site, across South <br /> Sullivan Street. Further south along West <br /> McFadden Avenue is a strip commercial center <br /> with auto-related uses and a variety of local- <br /> serving commercial uses. The development of the <br /> proposed project will consist of a new two-level <br /> meditation center on the 1.46-acre project site and <br /> will be harmonious in scale and character with <br /> existing surrounding development. Thus, the <br /> proposed project would be consistent with this <br /> policy. <br />Policy 3.5 - Encourage new The area and neighborhood surrounding the Consistent <br />development and/or project site includes various buildings that are <br />additions to existing older and do not represent a single unified <br />development that are architectural style or character. Similarly, the <br />compatible in scale, and existing meditation center site consists of various <br />consistent with the buildings developed over a 3S-year period that do <br />architectural style and not architecturally or stylistically identify with <br />character of the each other or with the surrounding neighborhood. <br />neighborhood. Redevelopment of the site would include a unified <br /> traditional Vietnamese style that would be <br /> integrated with the proposed landscaping and <br /> parking improvements, resulting in an <br /> improvement over existing conditions. The <br /> proposed project would result in the construction <br /> of a new two-story meditation center that is <br />The Bat Nha Buddhist Meditation Center 3-62 June 2013 <br />Initial Study/Mitigated Negative oeclaration Icf 002 15.11 <br />31C-115