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The Wamer Redhill Mixed -Use Project CEQA Findings of Fact <br />housing on the Project site in a jobs -rich area, where employees can easily travel to nearby <br />employment opportunities. <br />Regarding infrastructure, the Project site is adjacent to existing roadways that would not be <br />extended to serve the Project. Likewise, water and wastewater services would be provided by <br />connections to the existing infrastructure within Red Hill Avenue and Warner Avenue, which would <br />accommodate the proposed Project, as described in Draft EIR Section 5.15, Utilities and Service <br />Systems. Provision of continued (but greater volumes) water and sewer services to the Project site <br />would not result in the need to extend infrastructure. Therefore, indirect impacts related to the <br />extension of infrastructure would not occur from implementation of the proposed Project. <br />Overall, the Project would not result in inducement of population growth that would have the <br />potential to create a significant physical change to the environment. As a result, impacts related to <br />population growth are less than significant. <br />Impact Finding: The Project would not displace substantial numbers of existing people or housing, <br />necessitating the construction of replacement housing elsewhere (Draft EIR at p. 5.1 1-1 1). <br />Facts in Support of Findings: The Project site is currently developed with three industrial <br />buildings, one of which is currently being used as a temporary 200-bed homeless shelter through <br />a short-term lease for use of the site on an interim basis until redevelopment of the site <br />commences. The City of Santa Ana is working on various homeless shelter solutions, including the <br />purchase of a permanent homeless shelter site, that are anticipated to be available for the <br />existing persons on the Project site prior to construction of the proposed Project. Therefore, the <br />proposed Project would not result in displacement of substantial numbers of people, such that <br />construction of replacement housing elsewhere would be necessary. As a result, impacts would be <br />less than significant. <br />K. Public Services <br />Fire Protection <br />Impact Finding: The Project would not result in substantial adverse physical impacts associated <br />with the provision of new or physically altered fire service facilities, the construction of which could <br />cause significant environmental impacts, in order to maintain acceptable service ratios and <br />response times or other performance objectives for fire protection services (Draft EIR at p. 5.12- <br />4). <br />Facts in Support of Findings: The proposed Project is anticipated to result in 2,081 residents and <br />320 employees at full occupancy. This residential and employee population is expected to create <br />the typical range of service calls to OCFA that are largely related to medical emergencies. <br />However, fire protection equipment and staffing can be augmented by the City as needed (with <br />assistance from revenue provided by the Project and the fire facilities fee required per Chapter <br />8-46 of the Municipal Code) to expand fire protection and emergency medical staffing and <br />equipment provided from existing stations and better accommodate simultaneous service calls. <br />Because the Project site is within 3.5 miles of 6 existing fire stations and the Project site is within a <br />developed area that is currently served by these stations, the Project would not result in the <br />requirement to construct a new or physically altered fire station. Therefore, impacts related to fire <br />protection services would be less than significant. <br />City of Santa Ana 32 <br />May 2020 <br />