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Exhibit 1 <br />EXISTING LEVEL OF SERVICE <br />The City of Santa Ana currently provides <br />parkland at a level of service of 1.1 acres per <br />1,000 residents. This standard is significantly <br />less than the 3 acres per 1,000 recommended <br />in the revised General Plan or the higher level <br />of service desired by residents. Santa Ana's <br />parkland is also far less than typically provided <br />by cities of a comparable size. <br />Most cities in California strive to provide <br />a minimum of 3 acres per 1,000 residents, <br />as advised in the California's Quimby Act. <br />The Quimby Act allows cities to require that <br />developers set aside 3 acres of land per 1,000 <br />residents for neighborhood and community <br />parks. The requirement typically applies <br />when land is subdivided for new residential <br />development. Since Santa Ana is already <br />built out, and it currently has substantially less <br />parkland, it would be very difficult and may be <br />cost -prohibitive to increase its LOS standard to <br />3 acres per 1,000 residents in the next 10 years. <br />A phased approach over a longer timeline <br />should be considered to pursue that goal.. <br />Santa Ana is not the only city in Orange <br />County that is deficient in parkland. In March <br />2022, an informal email survey was conducted <br />by Community Services Directors to compare <br />LOS across neighboring Orange County cities. <br />The result shows Santa Ana below the average <br />of neighboring communities (Figure 5-1). <br />City Council <br />EQ <br />PARK LOS EVALUATION <br />To see how realistic it would be for the City of Santa Ana to increase its LOS to 2 or even 3 acres per <br />1,000 residents, the results of the access, equity, and opportunities analysis were used to identify <br />parkland needs and LOS implications. The analysis considered how much parkland could potentially <br />be added over the next ten years to serve the City's forecasted 2030 population of 362,591 residents. <br />FIGURE 5-1: ORANGE COUNTY PARK ACRES PER 1,000 RESIDENTS <br />Anaheim Fullerton Garden Grove Orange Santa Ana Tustin <br />Note: Totals include city -owned parkland for most cities. However, Garden Grove and Orange countjoint-use sites, and Tustin counts <br />trails. Note: Santa Ana counts some joint -use sites where long-term leases grant management rights. It does not count sites maintained <br />through a joint -use agreement with SAUSD. <br />Exhi <br />SANTA ANA PARKS MASTER PLAN CHAPTER 5: FACILITIES, TRAILS, AND PROGRAM NEEDS <br />