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

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State of California -The Resources Agency DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION CONTINUATION SHEET Resource Name or #: 1700-1740 E. Garry Avenue Page 13 of 27 Primary# HRI# Trinomial# opening of the Southern California Sugar Company, located south of the intersection of Delhi Avenue (now Warner Avenue) and Main Street, in Santa Ana. Four years later, with the backing of James Irvine, another refinery opened in the city - the Santa Ana Cooperative Sugar Company (later subsumed by the Colorado company Holly Sugar). This one sited on Dryer Road approximately one mile east of Main Street.' At the industry's height roughly 70 square miles of southwest Orange County were devoted to beet cultivation with four processing plants responsible for one fifth of the nation's refined sugar.' The beet curly top virus struck the region in 1919. The disease deforms the plant making it unusable for sugar production. The outbreak seriously affected sugar beet crops in the early 1920s, causing a steep decline in production. At the same time tree crops such as apricots, walnuts and citrus replaced beet fields, rapidly becoming the most significant agricultural products for the local economy. By 1930 only one sugar factory in Santa Ana remained operational.10 During the 1920s the Santa Ana region also attracted a significant influx of successful mid -western farmers; many settled on area ranches while others chose the comforts of the smaller subdivisions that sprung up around downtown. The arrival of the Pacific Electric "Red Cars" in 1905 allowed urban development to push out beyond the traditional city center.11 By the 1930s these small suburban tracts pushed further out into the agricultural lands, mostly north and west of the city center. The tendency to locate subdivisions further from established areas was further encouraged by the increasing popularity of the automobile. This trend continued as time progressed and the use of the automobile became more commonplace. Residential construction overtook agriculture as the region's economic engine in the post -World War II era. Returning servicemen flocked to Orange County in search of the American Dream. Developers bought up prime agricultural land, put in streets and infrastructure and then started building houses, hundreds at a time. Massive subdivisions replaced once thriving groves. Freeways encouraged continued growth, each new mile opening up areas that were once relatively inaccessible. The Santa Ana Freeway (Interstate 5) traced its way south from Los Angeles reaching Santa Ana by 1952. Newly completed freeways provided easy access to the metropolitan area, effectively making Orange County a bedroom community of Los Angeles. Countless subdivisions advertised themselves within close proximity to freeways and metropolitan Los Angeles by association. The freeway also encouraged industry to establish itself within the Santa Ana region. Research and high-tech manufacturing companies established a presence in the area because of the abundance of housing, well- educated labor and ready access to open space and recreation, and a connection to metropolitan Los Angeles via the limited access freeways allowed products to be efficiently transported into existing supply chains. The development of additional business caused need for more housing - and the cycle continued.12 Between 1940 and 1960, the population of Orange County jumped from 130,760 to 703, 925 people.13 Historical Society of Southern California Part I Vol. XI (1918): 76-78. The same Oxnard brothers established a sugar refinery and town bearing their name in Ventura County, California. s Magnuson,76-78. 9 Friis, 105 and Steve Emmons, "Sugar Factory in Santa Ana - How Sweet It Was," Los Angeles Times, 31 October 1999. 0 Friis, 105 and Orange County Historical Society, Orange County (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005), 79. Friis, 118. 12 Richard Bigger, James D. Kitchen, Lyndon R. Musolf and Carolyn Quinn, Metropolitan Coast: San Diego and Orange Counties, California (Los Angeles: Bureau of Governmental Research, 1958), 66-67 and Hallan-Gibson, 238. 13 Cramer, et al., 55. DPR 523J (9/2013) *Required information