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2014 -2021 SANTA ANA HOUSING ELEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY ELEMENT UPDATES CITY OF SANTA ANA 3. Environmental Analysis 3.3 AIR QUALITY Where available, the significance criteria established by the applicable air quality management or air pollution control district may be relied upon to make the following determinations. Would the project: a) Conflict with or obstruct implementation of the applicable air quality plan? No Impact. The City of Santa Ana lies in the South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB), which is under the jurisdiction of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). The SoCAB is a nonattainment area under the federal and state air quality standards (AAQS) for ozone (03), fine inhalable particulate matter (PM2.5), coarse inhalable particulate matter (PMio), and lead (Los Angeles County only) and nonattainment for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) under the California AAQS.' The federal and California Clean Air Acts require areas designated nonattainment to reduce emissions until standards are met. SCAQMD has adopted attainment plan(s) for nonattainment pollutants to meet these standards. Projects are consistent with the AQMPs if it they are consistent with the existing land use plans used to forecast emissions. The air quality plan in effect in the SoCAB is the SCAQMD's 2012 Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP). The regional emissions inventory for the SoCAB is compiled by the SCAQMD and SCAG. Regional population, housing, and employment projections developed by SCAG, which are based on the land use designations of the City's General Plan form, in part, the foundation for the emissions inventory of the AQMP These demographic trends are incorporated into the Regional Transportation Plan compiled by SCAG, to determine priority transportation projects and determine vehicle miles traveled within the SCAG region. Zoning changes, specific plans, general plan amendments and similar land use plan changes that do not increase dwelling unit density, vehicle trips, or increase vehicle miles traveled are also deemed to be consistent with the AQMPs. The Housing Element designates adequate sites for development that could potentially accommodate any unmet portion of the RHNA through 2021. Since the housing assessment in the RHNA is determined by SCAG, the proposed project would accommodate increases in population based on SCAG's demographic projections. Development as proposed to meet the RHNA goals is based on the approval of the draft Harbor Corridor Specific Plan, which includes a General Plan Amendment to create a new residential land use designation and zoning district on approximately 10 acres within the specific plan area. Therefore, while the housing and population growth for the Harbor Corridor Specific Plan is not yet in the 2010 Orange County Projections (OCP) growth forecast used by SCAG, the specific plan is anticipated to be adopted in early 2014 and will then be incorporated into the next OCP and SCAG growth forecast update. Furthermore, the specific plan will have completed its own CEQA environmental review. After the adoption of the Harbor Corridor Specific Plan's General Plan Amendment, the Housing Element will be consistent with the AQMP, based on new demographic projections reflecting the specific plan, fox the City of Santa Ana from which SCAQMD creates the regional emissions inventory. In addition, the City is also consistent with the overall I CARB approved the SCAQMD's request to redesignate the SoCAB from serious nonattainment for PMm to attainment for PMro under the national AAQS on March 25, 2010, because the SoCAB has not violated federal 24 -hour PMw standards during the period from 2004 to 2007. However, the EPA has not yet approved this request. Page 42 • The Planning Center I DC&E Deosssbor2013 75A -64