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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) ACTIVITIES EXEMPT FROM CEQA <br /> <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 3-17 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br />(A) Consists of any one, or combination, of the following uses: <br />(i) Residential. <br />(ii) Retail or commercial, where no more than one-half of the project area is <br />used for parking. <br />(iii) A transit station. <br />(iv) A school. <br />(v) A public office building. <br />(B) Is located within an urban area on a site that has been previously developed, or <br />on a vacant site where at least 75 percent of the perimeter of the site adjoins, or is separated <br />only by an improved public right-of-way from, parcels that are developed with qualified <br />urban uses. <br />(2) "Planning level decision" means the enactment or amendment of a general plan, <br />community plan, specific plan, or zoning code. <br />(3) "Prior environmental impact report" means the environmental impact report <br />certified for a planning level decision, as supplemented by any subsequent or supplemental <br />environmental impact reports, negative declarations, or addenda to those documents. <br />(4) "Small walkable community project" means a project that is in an incorporated city, <br />which is not within the boundary of a metropolitan planning organization and that satisfies the <br />following requirements: <br />(A) Has a project area of approximately one-quarter mile diameter of contiguous <br />land completely within the existing incorporated boundaries of the city. <br />(B) Has a project area that includes a residential area adjacent to a retail downtown <br />area. <br />(C) The project has a density of at least eight dwelling units per acre or a floor area <br />ratio for retail or commercial use of not less than 0.50. <br />(5) "Urban area" includes either an incorporated city or an unincorporated area that is <br />completely surrounded by one or more incorporated cities that meets both of the following <br />criteria: <br />(A) The population of the unincorporated area and the population of the <br />surrounding incorporated cities equal a population of 100,000 or more. <br />(B) The population density of the unincorporated area is equal to, or greater than, <br />the population density of the surrounding cities.