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City of Santa Ana – The Bowery May 11, 2020 Page 26 of 28 integrated within the fabric of existing Santa Ana urban life—not on the outskirts of the City within an office park zone that is disconnected from major activity centers. The fact that the proposed Project will be located adjacent to the City of Tustin’s Legacy Specific Plan area does not save the proposed change in land use designation either. This area is current massively underdeveloped, and as the Applicant points out, will only meet the current character of the site’s existing land use designation for commercial use. (DEIR at 5.9-13.) And in any event, any result of the building up of the Legacy Area in the future will not connect the Project to any of the City’s major activity areas. The Applicant cannot depend on contingent plans in other cities to support its proposed change. The proposed change to a DC is not consistent with the language or intent of the City’s General Plan and should be revised. B. The DEIR’s Proposed Zoning Change to a Specific Development District Conflicts with the City’s General Plan. The Applicant also seeks to amend the site’s zoning designation from M1-Light Industrial to a Specific Development District (SD). This zoning change would conflict with the City’s General Plan because the Project site is not appropriate for a General Plan amendment to a DC and thus the underlying zoning change would also be inappropriate. SDs are designed to facilitate certain types of development within suitable DCs.5 C. The Proposed Land Use Amendments Conflict with Orange County’s Land Use Plan for John Wayne Airport California requires every county with an airport that includes use by a scheduled airline, or where the airport is operated for the benefit of the general public, to establish an airport land use commission (ALUC). The purpose of the ALUC is to provide for orderly development and expansion of airports and adoption of "land use measures that minimize the public's exposure to excessive noise and safety hazards within areas around public airports to the extent that these areas are not already devoted to incompatible uses." (Cal. P.U.C. §21670(a).) ALUCs cannot exempt a city or county's specific plan (i.e., the portion of the locality's general plan affecting land in the vicinity of an airport) from compliance with the ALUC's more stringent compatibility 5 City of Santa Ana, General Plan – Housing Element, p. 57. Available at https://www.santa- ana.org/sites/default/files/Housing%20Element.pdf.