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

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Garry Avenue Business Park Amendment Application, Appeal Applications, and Conditional Use Permit — 1700, 1720, and 1740 East Garry Avenue December 20, 2022 Page 9 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 peculiar to the parcel or to the project, has been addressed as a significant effect in the prior EIR, or can be substantially mitigated by the imposition of uniformly applied development policies or standards [... ] then an additional EIR need not be prepared for the project solely on the basis of that impact" (State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183(c))." The GPU was adopted, and the GPU EIR certified, in April 2022 (State Clearinghouse Number 2020029087); the GPU went into effect on May 26, 2022. Any decision by the City affecting land use and development must be consistent with the GPU. The GPU EIR evaluates the potential environmental effects associated with implementation of the GPU and addresses appropriate and feasible mitigation measures that would minimize or eliminate these impacts. A project is consistent with the GPU if the development density does not exceed what was contemplated and analyzed for the parcel(s) in the certified