75A - PUBLIC HEARING 5 YR CONSOLITATED PLAN

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and Westminster are other cities that struggle with educational opportunity, all with scores in the 30s to 40s on the composite education index. Finally, a few cities have educational opportunity patterns that mirror those of Orange County overall. Non -Hispanic Whites in Fountain Valley have high exposure to educational opportunity (scores of about 60), whereas Hispanics in the city do not (30). In both Fullerton and Tustin, Non - Hispanic Whites and Asians have much higher access than do Blacks and Hispanics. 2. For the protected class group(s) HUD has provided data, describe how the disparities in access to education relate to residential livingpatterns in the jurisdiction and region. Jurisdictions that score low on the education opportunity index exhibit different residential patterns. For instance, Santa Ana has high concentrations of Hispanics and a very light presence of any other racial or ethnic group. Anaheim also has high concentrations of Hispanics in the low - opportunity western neighborhoods of the city, but Whites and Asian/Pacific Islanders also appear to reside in those tracts (although at lower densities). The high opportunity eastern Anaheim neighborhoods are almost exclusively White. Garden Grove, Westminster, Buena Park and La Habra are examples of cities with low educational opportunity and that have a noticeable mix of Hispanics, Asians and Whites. Costa Mesa, San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente are low opportunity jurisdictions with high densities of Whites (although San Juan Capistrano and Costa Mesa have important Hispanic populations as well). Jurisdictions with the highest educational opportunity also appear to have primarily large concentrations of non -Hispanic Whites and Asian/Pacific Islanders. Irvine, Aliso Viejo and Huntington Beach are good examples of cities with large populations of those two groups. Other high opportunity cities, by contrast appear more segregated and more heavily populated by non - Hispanic Whites. Rancho Santa Margarita and Mission Viejo are two examples of such places. 2. Environmental Opportunities 1. For the protected class group(s) HUD has provided data, describe any disparities in access to environmental opportunity in the jurisdiction and region. Countywide, there are disparities across racial/ethnic groups in access to environmental opportunities, measured as lower exposure to and effects from pollution. Across all tracts in Orange County, non -Hispanic Whites exhibit the highest access to environmentally healthy neighborhoods (index score of about 54). All other racial/ethnic groups obtain lower index scores in the 40s: Hispanics score lowest at 41, followed by non -Hispanic Blacks (45), non -Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander (47), and non -Hispanic Native American (48). Several jurisdictions score especially highly on environmental opportunity across all racial categories. Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo, and Rancho Santa Margarita all have index scores in the 70s to 90s for all racial and ethnic groups. Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach also have higher access to environmental health, scoring in the 50s to low-70s on the index. Other cities are low -scoring across the board. Orange City, La Habra, and Fullerton are the least environmentally healthy, with index scores in the 20s. Anaheim, Buena Park, Irvine, Santa Ana, and Westminster also have low access to environmental opportunity, scoring in the 30s to 40s on the index. 140 75A-419