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EXHIBIT A <br />Project would also help to meet housing demands from projected employment growth in the City while <br />maintaining a healthy vacancy rate. (DEIR, pp. 4.2-14 through 4.2-15.) <br />Moreover, the Santa Ana and City of Orange areas are jobs -rich. The existing jobs -housing ratio is 2.06 <br />in Santa Ana and is projected to be 2.13 in 2040. The Project would reduce the jobs -housing ratio slightly <br />to 2.05; and to 2.11 in 2040, as shown in Section 4.9, Population and Housing, of the DEIR. The balance <br />of jobs and housing and the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure implemented by the Project would reduce <br />vehicle miles traveled and the related air quality emissions, as employees could easily travel to <br />employment opportunities within the Santa Ana and City of Orange areas. Thus, the Project would support <br />AQMP objectives to reduce trips, promote infill development, and balance jobs and housing, and would <br />not conflict with implementation of the AQMP. (DEIR, p. 4.2-15.) <br />Further still, as discussed in the DEIR, the Project would not exceed any air quality standards. (DEIR, p. <br />4.2-15.) <br />9.3.2 Air Quality Standards <br />Threshold: Would the Project violate any air quality standard or contribute substantially to an <br />existing or projected air quality violation? <br />Finding: Less than significant impact. (DEIR, p. 4.2-15 through 4.2-16.) <br />Facts in Support of Finding: The Project would not violate any air quality standard or contribute <br />substantially to an existing or projected air quality violation. As detailed in DEIR Section 4.2, Air Quality, <br />the maximum daily construction and operational emissions would not exceed any of SCAQMD's daily <br />significance thresholds. Thus, the construction and operation of the Project would not result in a violation <br />of an air quality standard or substantially contribute to an existing or projected air quality violation. (DEIR, <br />p. 4.2-15 through 4.2-16.) <br />9.3.3 Cumulative Increase of Criteria Pollutant <br />Threshold: Would the Project result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of any criteria <br />pollutant for which the project region is in non -attainment under an applicable federal or state ambient air <br />quality standard (including releasing emissions which exceed quantitative thresholds for ozone <br />precursors)? <br />Finding: Less than significant impact. (DEIR, p. 4.2-16 through 4.2-17.) <br />Facts in Support of Finding: The Project would not result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of <br />any criteria pollutant for which the project region is in non -attainment under an applicable federal or state <br />ambient air quality standard (DEI?, p. 4.2-16 through 4.2-17.) SCAQMD's cumulative air quality <br />methodology provides that if an individual project results in air emissions of criteria pollutants that exceed <br />the SCAQMD's daily thresholds for project -specific impacts, then the project would also result in a <br />cumulatively considerable net increase of criteria pollutant(s) for which the project region is in non - <br />attainment under an applicable federal or state ambient air quality standard. As shown in the DEIR, <br />implementation of the Project would not exceed SCAQMD's applicable thresholds. Therefore, impacts <br />related to a cumulatively considerable net increase of a criteria pollutant for which the project region is in <br />non -attainment would be less than significant. (DEIR, p. 4.2-16 through 4.2-17.) <br />Resolution No. _ <br />Certification of the Magnolia at the Park EIR <br />75E-60 <br />Page 22 of 71 <br />