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20142021 SANTA ANA HOUSING ELEMENT AND PUBLIC SAFETY ELEMENT UPDATES CITY OF SANTA ANA 3. Environmental Analysis housing" would likely be the housing opportunities as identified in the Housing Element. This impact would be less than significant. c) Displace substantial numbers of people, necessitating the construction of replacement housing elsewhere? No Impact. The City of Santa Ana is completing the Housing Element update in order to meet needs for housing in the City determined in the RHNA. The project itself only identifies residential development opportunity areas and would not directly displace any people or demolish any housing units or structures. Any future projects proposed in accordance with the Housing Element would provide housing to meet the RHNA housing goals for the City. No impacts would occur. 3.14 PUBLIC SERVICES Would the project result in substantial adverse physical impacts associated with the provision of new or physically altered governmental facilities, need for new or physically altered governmental facilities, the construction of which could cause significant environmental impacts, in order to maintain acceptable service ratios, response times or other performance objectives for any of the public services: a) Fire protection? Less than Significant Impact. Fire protection service is provided to the City of Santa Ana by the Orange County Fite Authority (OCFA). OCFA maintains 10 fire stations throughout the City and has a hazardous materials team (OCFA 2004). Mutual aid agreements have been established with neighboring cities that already have their own fire departments. The City estimates future fire protection needs based on growth as projected in the City's General Plan. New development anticipated to achieve the Housing Element goals could increase fire protection service needs in the City, and may require improvements to existing facilities or increases in staffing and equipment. RHNA housing units and associated fire protection demands in the Metro East and TZC have been addressed in their respective EIRs and land uses have been approved that will now be reflected in the General Plan. An EIR is currently being prepared for the Harbor Corridor Specific Plan that will address the plan's impacts on fire protection services, and proposed applicable mitigation, if needed. Furthermore, the City's Public Safety Element Update includes policies regarding minimum OCFA response times, annual assessments regarding fire unit deployment plans as related to fire call patterns, property maintenance standards, and community education on fire prevention and suppression. Additionally, each future development would be subject to CEQA review and evaluation of potential impacts to OCFA. Adoption of the Housing Element would not result in direct impacts to fire protection services, and therefore impacts would be less than significant and no mitigation measures are necessary. Page 62 • The Planning Center DC&F—, Deeember2013 75A -84