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City of Santa Ana Environmental Checklist hazardous materials or cause a hazardous release; is not located in a valuable mineral resource area; would not add to the population to the region; and, would not substantially increase the use of public services or utilities such that new services would be required. Therefore, any less-than- significant impact the proposed project has on these resources would not contribute to significant cumulative impacts to a considerable degree when combined with the past, present, and reasonably foreseeable cumulative project list. Impacts related to these environmental topics would be less than cumulatively considerable. A cumulative evaluation for the remainder of the environmental resource areas are provided below. Aesthetics Implementation of the proposed project would include the construction and operation of a new two- level meditation center within an existing urban residential and mixed use area. The construction and operation of the proposed project would be similar in nature to the surrounding residential and uses in the vicinity of the project site. The past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects would not degrade or detract from the urban built out nature of the City of Santa Ana. Therefore, any less-than-significant impact the proposed project has on aesthetics would not represent a considerable degree when combined with the past, present, and reasonably foreseeable cumulative project list and would not contribute to a cumulative impact. Impacts would be less than cumulatively considerable. Agriculture and Forest Resources The proposed project is located in a fully developed urban environment and would develop a meditation center on an infill redevelopment parcel. The City of Santa Ana, including the proposed project site, is classified as "urban and built-up land" and does not contain any agricultural uses or forest resources. Therefore, the past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects in the City of Santa Ana would not have the potential to cumulatively contribute to impacts related to agriculture or forest resources. Air Quality The cumulative study area for air quality is the entire South Coast Air Basin. As the Basin is currently in nonattainment for ozone, CO, NOx, PM10, and PM2.5, cumulative development could violate an air quality standard or contribute to an existing or projected air quality violation. The SCAQMD recommends that individual projects that exceed the SCAQMD recommended daily thresholds for project-specific impacts be considered to cause a cumulatively considerable increase in emissions for those pollutants for which the Basin is in nonattainment. As discussed previously in Section 111, "Air Quality," mitigation measures have been included to ensure that cumulative construction would not exceed the thresholds for nonattainment pollutants (VOC, NOx, PM10, and PM2.5) of significance recommended by the SCAQMD. With implementation of Mitigation Measures AQ-1 and AQ-2 construction impacts would be less than significant. Therefore, cumulative impacts would also be considered less than significant by SCAQMD. Biological Resources The cumulative study area for biological resources includes the areas shown on Figure 3-3. The proposed project setting is highly urbanized and few biological resources remain in the surrounding areas. The related projects listed in Table 3-26, are infrll or redevelopment of existing uses within the urban area. Substantial existing biological resources do not exist within these related project The Bat Nha Buddhist meditation center 3-99 June 2013 Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaratlon ICF 00215.12 31 C-154