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Garry Avenue Business Park at 1700, 1720, and 1740 E. Garry Avenue August 22, 2022 Page 6 2 8 7 1 Public Notification and Community Outreach Public notifications were posted, published, and mailed in accordance with City and State regulations. Copies of the public notice, including a 1,000-foot notification radius map, and the site posting are provided in Exhibit 12. There are no established Neighborhood Associations in the vicinity as the property is surrounded by industrial and office uses within the 1,000-foot radius. At the time this report was printed, no issues of concern were raised regarding the proposed CUP. In addition to the standard notification requirements, the project is subject to community engagement requirements of the Sunshine Ordinance (SAMC Sec. 2-153). At the time the application was submitted, the Sunshine Ordinance required only one community meeting; however, the applicant held two communities in order to provide ample public input opportunities to surrounding property owners. Both meetings were conducted virtually due to the ongoing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic at the time. The first community meeting was held July 8, 2021. Ten members of the community attended and posted questions relating to construction impacts and the site plan design. Because of this meeting, the original site plan was rotated 90 degrees clockwise to orient the loading docks from facing east to facing south, to minimize impacts onto properties to the north and east of the site. The second community meeting was held October 5, 2021, during which 11 members of the community attended and expressed satisfaction with the revised site plan and posed questions about traffic control, site screening, and construction impacts. Materials from both community meetings are included with this report as Exhibit 11, and all materials were published to the project’s webpage on the City’s website at santa-ana.org/garry-avenue-business-park. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the CEQA Guidelines, the project is exempt from further review pursuant to 15183 of the CEQA Guidelines. This type of exemption analysis evaluates whether the potential environmental impacts of the proposed demolition of three office buildings, which total 105,558 square feet, and construction of a new 91,500 square foot light industrial warehousing building that would accommodate two tenants are addressed in the City of Santa Ana General Plan Update Final Recirculated Program Environmental Impact Report (GPU EIR). As set forth in California Public Resources Code (PRC) Section 21083.3 and State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183, projects that are “consistent with the development density established by the existing zoning, community plan or general plan policies for which an EIR was certified shall not require additional environmental review, except as might be necessary to examine whether there are project-specific significant effects which are peculiar to the project or its site” (State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183(a) and PRC Section 21083.3(b)). The State CEQA Guidelines further state that “[i]f an impact is not 8/22/2022 Planning Commission 2 – 6