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Grand Avenue Widening Project Environmental Impact Report Section 1.0 EIR, identifies the fall and partial takes under Alternative 1, for each of the affected parcels along this segment of Grand Avenue. The resulting cross section would be consistent with the Major Arterial designation for this segment of Grand Avenue in the City of Santa Ana General Plan Circulation Element. This cross section would not include a bike lane which is not consistent with the adopted City of Santa Ana Bikeway Master Plan or Policy 3.3 of the Circulation Element. This Alternative would include landscaping in the median. The estimated cost for this Alternative, including final design, right-of-way acquisition, demolition and construction, is $29.27 million. As discussed above, Alternative 1 will require the acquisition of property to accommodate the widened road cross section. Because not all the property acquired will be used for the construction of Alternative 1, there will be remainder or remnant parcels left after the completion of construction. The City anticipates the majority of the remainder parcels would be combined into larger, developable parcels and sold to private parties for development. However, it is possible that some remainder parcels, even when combined with other remainder parcels, may not meet the City's minimum lot size requirements. In that event, the City would probably sell those remainder parcels to adjacent property owners. These parcels along the Grand Avenue corridor are designated for commercial or residential uses in the City's General Plan Land Use Element. The commercial designation applies to all the parcels on the west side of Grand Avenue for the entire project length from Seventeenth Street to First Street. The width of the commercial designation varies on both the east and west sides of Grand Avenue and is adjacent to areas designated low density residential. The commercial designation applies to the east side of Grand Avenue for the entire project length except for a small segment between 14`h and 15`h Streets that is designated low density residential. The EIR for the General Plan Land Use Element addressed potential impacts of commercial and residential uses on this segment of Grand Avenue at a program or planning level. As part of the future development process for these remainder parcels, any proposed commercial or residential uses would be subject to independent environmental review. That independent review would assess whether the potential impacts of proposed uses were addressed in the Land Use Element EIR or will require additional, separate environmental review prior to approval of the proposed uses by the City. It is anticipated that the widening of Grand Avenue under Alternative 1 will be constructed in phases, based on available funding. For example, as funding becomes available, the intersections could be improved, followed later by the widening of Grand Avenue on the segments between the intersections. Therefore, the construction period for the widening under Alternative 1 would not occur in one continuous time period. Construction activities could occur intermittently over a period of several years before construction of the entire widening project is complete. Alternative 1 also includes the mitigation measures identified in this EIR. Mitigation measure N-2, described later in Section 3.6 (Noise) indicates that Alternative 1 will require noise barriers adjacent to several properties on the project segment of Grand Avenue, to reduce project related noise to below the City of Santa Ana noise standards. The noise barriers at these properties are included as F.IPROJ-ENMGrand eir.Wew Text- GranMection 1.0-new.doc Page 1-11