2019-090 - Adopting the Mitigated Negative Declaration

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*:/ :11-1 It WA McFadden Site/Pacific Electric Park The existing Pacific Electric Park opened in spring 2018. The park contains a small grove of fruit trees, a garden, and a small amphitheater, shade canopies, play equipment, jogging parcourse with exercise stations, and restroom. See Figure 7, Aerial Pbat-0graph — McFadden SitelPa fdc Electric Park. 1.2.2 Surrounding Land Use 6th Street Site The 6th Street Site is surrounded by a mixture of land uses such as residential, commercial, and institutional, but predominantly by multi- and sine -family residential uses. The 6th Street Site is bordered by multi -family uses to the south, single- family uses to the west, Garfield Elementary School and Garfield Community Center to the east Lacey Street, and multi -family residential uses to the north across E. 6th Street. A community retail store is at the northwest intersection of 6th Street and Lacey Street. Other recreational facilities in the area include Garfield Fitness Park approximately 400 feet to the east, Familias Cmazonea Verde Park, approximately 630 feet to the south, and French Park, approximately 0.3 mile to the northwest Raitt Street Site The Raitt Street Site is located highly urbanized residential area surrounded by single and multi -family units on all sides. The nearest non-residential uses from the Raitt Street Site are industrial uses approximately 550 feet to the west, on the west side of Daisy Avenue. The nearest recreational facilities from the Raitt Street Site is Jerome Park, approximately 0.4 to the southwest, and Friendship Park is approximately 0.42 mile to the west. McFadden Site/Pacific Electric Park Pacific Electric Park is surrounded by single-family residential units. A retail plaza with O'Reilly Auto Parts aid Domino's Pizza, approximately 565 feet to the west, is the nearest non-residential uses from the park. The Pacific Electric bicycle trail is runs along Maple Street adjacent to the Pacific Electric Park. 1.3 PROJECT BACKGROUND The Centennial Park is an 87-acre regional park at 3000 W. Edinger Avenue, Santa Ana, Orange County, California 92704. Centennial Park was developed on the land once owned and operated by the Unified States Government as a Communications Center, and the City of Santa Ana collaborated with the County of Orange to develop a regional recreational area. The City of Santa Ana acquired 21.65-acre portion of the Centennial Park through the Application for Federal Surplus Property (Application) in 1980, which is known as the Federal Communications Commission Site (FCC Site). The Application was granted under the condition that the FCC Site was to be used for park and recreation purposes in perpetuity under the terms of the Application conditions. Figure 8, Master Plan far Centennial Park, shows the limits of the FCC Site and the initial Master Plan for Centennial Park The city currently leases 2.6 acres of land at Centennial Park to RSCCD, and the leased 2.6-acre land is within the FCC Site. The RSCCD uses the site for its Santa Ana College's School of Continuing Education, Centennial 75C-38