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 In addition, as explained further in the Exemption Checklist below, Project impacts were adequately analyzed by the GPU EIR; and as detailed in the GPU EIR, development projects pursuant to the GPU, such as the proposed Project could result in potentially significant impacts to air quality, cultural resources, paleontological resources, noise, and tribal cultural resources. However, applicable mitigation measures specified within the GPU EIR would reduce potential impacts to a less than significant level. 3. There are no potentially significant off -site and/or cumulative impacts which the GPU EIR failed to evaluate. The Project is consistent with the density and use characteristics of the development considered by the GPU EIR and would represent a small part of the growth that was forecast for build -out of the GPU. The GPU EIR considered the incremental impacts of the Project, and as explained further in the Exemption Checklist below, no potentially significant off -site or cumulative impacts have been identified which were not previously evaluated. A. There is no substantial new information which results in more severe impacts than anticipated by the GPU EIR. As explained in the Exemption Checklist below, no new information has been identified which would result in a determination of a more severe impact than what had been anticipated by the GPU EIR. 5. The Project will undertake feasible mitigation measures specified in the GPU EIR. As explained in the Exemption Checklist below, the Project will undertake feasible mitigation measures specified in the GPU EIR. These GPU EIR mitigation measures will be undertaken through Project design, compliance with regulations and ordinances, and through the Project's conditions of approval. 2 ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING 2.1 PROJECT LOCATION The proposed Project is located at 1700 - 1740 East Garry Avenue (Assessor's Parcel Number 430-171- 07), within the southeastern portion of the City of Santa Ana. The City of Irvine boundaries are located to the south of the site, across the right-of-way for Alton Avenue. The site is located within the Tustin USGS 7.5- minute quadrangle map. The location of the Project site is shown on Figure 1, Regional Location and Figure 2, Local Vicinity. Regional access to the Project site is provided State Route 55 (SR-55) and the Dyer Road interchange. Local access is provided by Dyer Road to Pullman Street, which turns into Garry Avenue. Alternatively, local access to the site is provided by Red Hill Avenue to Alton Parkway and Daimler Street to Garry Avenue; or Red Hill Avenue to Deere Avenue to either Daimler or Pullman Streets to Garry Avenue. 2.2 EXISTING PROJECT SITE The Project site consists of one 5.2-gross-acre parcel (see Figure 2, Local Vicinity). The Project site is currently developed with three office buildings, which total 103,031 square feet and were constructed between 1972 and 1974. The existing office structures are one-story cement and stucco buildings with windows that are surrounded by parking. The buildings currently accommodate multiple tenants each. Vehicular access to the Project site is provided from a driveway at Garry Avenue. See Figure 3, Aerial View. The Project site has an elevation of approximately 47 feet above mean sea level with a decreasing topographic gradient to the east-northeast. 3