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6. Energy Element This element was designed to reduce energy consumed in Santa Ana's transportation system, land use and development, increase energy efficiency, and work collaboratively to increase public awareness of energy conservation needs and practices. • The City of Santa Ana constructed the equivalent of three and one half miles of bikeways in 2021, encouraging "green" travel and energy conservation. Presently, the Draft General Plan Update Mobility Element is proposing updates to the citywide Bikeway Master Plan to support additional on -road and off -road bike facilities. The City also continuous to pursue grant funding and the implementation of bikeways to promote active, alternative modes of transportation for the community. • The City's Community Development Agency presently assists in management of the Downtown parking resources to serve business, residents and visitor needs. These parking resources offer hundreds of public parking spaces within structures, metered spaces, and surface parking lots. The Downtown's parking resources will are also tools to support transit through the OC Streetcar. The OC Streetcar is the first modern streetcar project to be built in Orange County and will serve Santa Ana's historic and thriving downtown, which includes federal, state, and local courthouses, government offices, colleges, an artists' village and a thriving restaurant scene. Expected to begin carrying passengers in 2023, it will operate along a 4.15-mile route that connects the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) and a new transit hub at Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue in Garden Grove. • The City's Public Works Agency continues to monitor Orange County Transportation Authority's (OCTA) Transit Master Plan and Long Range Transportation Plan to promote maximum transit options for Santa Ana stakeholders, and that supports Santa Ana's vision for Transit Oriented Development (TOD). • In 2021, the City continued to pursue grant funding opportunities to implement traffic signal synchronizations projects. These projects help to conserve fuel and improve efficiency of the traveling motorists along various corridors by reducing delays and maximizing throughput traffic. • The City continues to review residential and mixed -use development proposals in the District Center areas, such as the Transit Zoning Code, Metro East Overlay Zone, and Harbor Corridor Mixed Use Specific Plan. As part of the General Plan Update underway, the City has identified opportunity "Focus Areas" for potential new housing and mixed -use sustainable development. The creation of additional District Center and Urban Neighborhood land use designations are proposed. https://www.santa-ana.org/general-plan/meetings. As of late 2021 over 2,200 residential units were under construction in within mixed use District Center and Urban Neighborhood area boundaries. City Council 25 — 14 3/15/2022