Item 41 - Amendment Application No. 2022-01 and Appeal Nos. 2022-01 and 2022-02

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Community Plan Exemption Checklist City of Santa Ana Gary Avenue Business Park Project Project Significant Potentially Adverse No Peculiar Impact not Significant Impact New Impact that is Analyzed Off site or More Impact not as Cumulative Severe Substantially Significant Impact not based on Mitigated by in the Prior Discussed Substantial Uniformly EIR in the prior New Applied EIR Information Policies 5.11 LAND USE AND PLANNING. Would the project: a) Physically divide an established community? b) Cause a significant environmental impact due to a conflict with any land use plan, policy, or regulation adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect? Summary of Impacts Identified in the GPU EIR ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ The Final Recirculated GPU EIR addressed land use and planning impacts on pages 5.10-1 8 through 5.10- 28. The GPU EIR determined that implementation of the GPU would not divide an established community. Additionally, the GPU would be consistent with the Airport Environs Land Use Plan for the John Wayne Airport. Implementation of the GPU would be consistent with the goals of the Southern California Association of Governments' RTP/SCS. Implementation of the GPU would also be consistent with the OCTA Congestion Management Plan. Impacts Associated with the Proposed Project a) Physically divide an established community? No New Impact. The Project would demolish three existing office buildings and construct a new approximately 91,500 square foot light industrial building. The proposed Project would be consistent with the existing land use and zoning designations and would not introduce roadways or other infrastructure improvements that would bisect or transect the Project site or surrounding area. Therefore, the Project would result in no new impact related to dividing an established community. b) Cause a significant environmental impact due to a conflict with any land use plan, policy, or regulation adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect? No New Impact. The Project site has a GPU designation of FLEX-3. The Project would result in a FAR of 0.42, which is less than the maximum FAR of 3.0 allowable in the FLEX-3 designated area. As described in the GPU Land Use Element, the FLEX-3 designation allows for office/industrial flex spaces (such as the Project), R&D, clean manufacturing, and corporate headquarters. The GPU states that adjacent to the 55 freeway, the Industrial/Flex land use designation will promote large-scale office/industrial flex spaces, multilevel corporate offices, and research and development uses in beautiful and creative buildings and spaces. The proposed Project would be consistent with the FLEX-3 land use designation and with the 55 Freeway and Dyer Road Focus Areas, as evaluated in the GPU EIR. Therefore, the Project would not result in a new impact 72