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2014 -2021 SANTA ANA HOUSING ELEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY ELEMENT UPDATES CITY OF SANTA ANA 3. Environmental Analysis Metro East area, Harbor Corridor Specific Plan, transit corridors along First Street and Fifth Street, and the Transit Zoning Code (TZC) area. General Plan Amendments and /or Zoning Changes would be required only for the Harbor Corridor area, which would be reflected in the Harbor Corridor Specific Plan currently being prepared and anticipated to be approved in early 2014. The MEMU Overlay Zone was adopted in 2007 and the TZC was adopted in 2010. Both of these areas allow residential development and would contribute to the housing needs outlined in the City's RHNA. The transit corridors along First and Fifth Street are additional housing opportunity areas that, if rezoned for residential and /or mixed use, would allow the City to surpass its RHNA requirements. Therefore, rezoning of the corridors is not required to meet the RHNA minimum. Given the opportunity areas within the Harbor Corridor Specific Plan, Metro East, and TZC areas, the City would meet its RHNA requirements and would not conflict with any land use plan and impacts would be less than significant. Potential future housing development as identified in the Housing Element would also be subject to project - specific CEQA review, including an evaluation of conflicts with applicable land use plans, policies, and regulations. Impacts associated the adoption of the Housing Element with respect to consistency to land use plans, policies, and regulations, therefore, would be less than significant, and no mitigation measures are necessary. c) Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan or natural community conservation plan? No Impact. There are no habitat conservation plans or natural community conservation plans within or in the vicinity of the City (CDFW 2013). Therefore, implementation of the Housing Element would not conflict with any habitat conservation plans or natural community conservation plans. No impacts would occur. 3.11 MINERAL RESOURCES a) Result in the loss of availability of a known mineral resource that would be a value to the region and the residents of the state? No Impact. Based on the California Geological Survey, areas known as mineral resource zones (MRZs) are classified according to the presence or absence of mineral resources. Lands designated as MRZ -2 are of the greatest importance and are considered "regionally significant" Development in areas designated as MRZ -2 would require that a lead agency's land use decisions be made in accordance with its mineral resource management policies (if any exist) and that it consider the importance of the mineral resource to the region or the state as a whole, not just to the lead agency's jurisdiction (CGS 1994). All of Santa Ana is zoned MRZ - 3, which means the City is in an area that containing mineral deposits of undetermined significance based on available data (CDMG 1994). b) Result in the loss of availability of a locally important mineral resource recovery site delineated on a local general plan, specific plan or other land use plan? No Impact. See 3.10a. December 2013 The Planning Canter ) DC&E • Page 59 75A -81