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City of Santa Ana 2. CEQA Findings <br />Table 2-1. CECW Findings for the Metro East Mixed -Use Overlay District Expansion (Program -Level Component) <br />Impact Statement Impact Summary Findings <br />Air Quality <br />Impact 4.1-1: Construction of the <br />proposed project could violate an <br />air quality standard or contribute <br />to an existing or projected air <br />quality violation. <br />Impact 4.1-2: Operation of the <br />proposed project would violate <br />an air quality standard or <br />contribute to an existing or <br />projected air quality violation. <br />Because construction emissions <br />for an individual project typically <br />exceed the SCAQMD's <br />recommended thresholds of <br />significance and result in short- <br />term air quality impacts, the <br />impact of the proposed project, <br />which takes into consideration <br />the construction emissions <br />generated from all of the <br />development proposed under the <br />proposed project, is anticipated <br />to be significant and unavoidable. <br />Operation of the proposed project <br />would generate emissions that <br />exceed the thresholds of <br />significance recommended by the <br />SCAQMD for NOx, CO, PM10 and <br />PM2.5. The exceedance of the <br />SCAQMD threshold for these <br />criteria pollutants is primarily <br />due to mobile and area sources. <br />As no feasible mitigation is <br />available to reduce these <br />emissions, this impact would <br />remain significant and <br />unavoidable. <br />Findings 1 and 3. No additional feasible mitigation is available. <br />Mitigation measures MM -OZ 4.2-2 through MM -OZ 4.2-16 from the MEMU <br />EIR as well as newly developed mitigation measures MM -AQ -1 through <br />MM -AQ -3 from this SEIR were developed to reduce the severity of this <br />impact. <br />However, while implementation of mitigation measures MM -OZ 4.2-2 <br />through MM -OZ 4.2-16 and MM -AQ -1 through MM -AQ -3 would reduce <br />construction -related emissions, they may not reduce these emissions to <br />levels below the SCAQMD thresholds for each individual development <br />project, as the amount of emissions generated for each project would vary <br />depending on its size, the land area that would need to be disturbed during <br />construction, and the length of the construction schedule. Under these <br />conditions, no further feasible mitigation measures are available and this <br />impact would be considered significant and unavoidable. <br />Finding 3. No feasible mitigation is available. <br />The exceedance of the SCAQMD thresholds for these criteria pollutants is <br />primarily due to the increase in motor vehicles traveling to and from the <br />project site. As no feasible mitigation is available to reduce these emissions, <br />this impact would remain significant and unavoidable. <br />Metro East Mixed -Use Overlay District Expansion and Elan August 2018 <br />Development Projects 2-2 ICF 19.18 <br />Findings of Fact/Statement of Overriding Considerations <br />