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Catalog of City of Santa Ana Draft General Plan Update Comments Received Post February 15, 2022
<br />#Public Comments/Concerns Draft Policies and Implementation Actions Addressing Comments/Concerns City Response Source of Comment
<br />107 Suggested Action Change: Action CN-1.10: Environmental Justice Office
<br />Interagency Team - Establish an environmental justice office with at least one
<br />public health expert on staff to ensure capacity to play a leadership role in
<br />implementation of policy, implementation, and decisions involving
<br />environmental quality and environmental justice issues; to coordinate across
<br />agencies and engage residents to implement environmental justice aspects of
<br />the General Plan and quality interagency team to evaluate, monitor, and
<br />make recommendations to address air quality and environmental hazard
<br />issues, with a special focus on environmental justice areas; publish results and
<br />information on the City’s website through a dedicated Santa Ana
<br />Environmental Quality web page.
<br />Recommended New Action: CM-3.9: Environmental Justice Staff. Identify funding and hire a full-
<br />time Environmental Justice staff member to collaborate with the community to guide the
<br />implementation of the environmental justice policies and actions including community outreach,
<br />collaboration on environmental health studies, pursuing grants, and coordination with federal,
<br />state, and local agencies regarding environmental concerns in the City. Agency: CMO/PBA and
<br />Target Year: 2022.
<br />The community comment is in alignment with comments provided by members of the City
<br />Council. Staff has prepared a recommended action to identify funding and hire a full-time EJ
<br />staff person per Council's input. Action revised in response to OCEJ comment that
<br />implementation of EJ policies and actions should be a collaboration and guided by the
<br />community.
<br />Alana M.W. LeBron,
<br />et.al., UCI letter
<br />dated March 11, 2025
<br />108 Suggested Action Change: Action LU-3.25: Engage EJ Communities - Work with
<br />community serving organizations, neighborhood leaders, and residents to
<br />form an Environmental Justice Office with at least one public health expert on
<br />staff to ensure capacity to play a leadership role in implementation of policy,
<br />implementation activities, and decisions involving environmental quality and
<br />environmental justice issues and to develop ongoing EJ Community
<br />Engagement programs for existing and new disadvantaged EJ communities,
<br />including multilingual communication protocols. Host biannual or quarterly
<br />Roundtable meetings with local stakeholders to guide and evaluate
<br />implementation of environmental justice policies.
<br />Recommended New Action: CM-3.9: Environmental Justice Staff. Identify funding and hire a full-
<br />time Environmental Justice staff member to collaborate with the community to guide the
<br />implementation of the environmental justice policies and actions including community outreach,
<br />collaboration on environmental health studies, pursuing grants, and coordination with federal,
<br />state, and local agencies regarding environmental concerns in the City. Agency: CMO/PBA and
<br />Target Year: 2022.
<br />The community comment is in alignment with comments provided by members of the City
<br />Council. Staff has prepared a recommended action to identify funding and hire a full-time EJ
<br />staff person per Council's input. Action revised in response to OCEJ comment that
<br />implementation of EJ policies and actions should be a collaboration and guided by the
<br />community.
<br />Alana M.W. LeBron,
<br />et.al., UCI letter
<br />dated March 11, 2026
<br />109 Suggested Action Change: Action CN-1.1: Public Education - Augment existing
<br />outreach programs to improve public awareness of State, regional and local
<br />agencies’ roles and resources to identify, monitor, and address air quality and
<br />other environmental hazards in the community; to provide regular reports to
<br />residents and environmental justice stakeholders that identify air quality and
<br />other environmental hazards as well as strategies for risk mitigation; and to
<br />allow space for community members to raise concerns about heretofore
<br />unidentified environmental health issues and environmental hazards in their
<br />neighborhoods.
<br />Recommended Action Change: CN-1.13: Community Survey On Health Lifestyles. Plan for and
<br />conduct a community survey of residents every two years related to community health, pollution,
<br />parks, community engagement, and community services; with focused outreach for environment
<br />justice concerns and priority areas. Report findings of survey through the various media platforms
<br />and utilize input to inform periodic evaluation and update of General Plan.
<br />The intent of the draft public education action is to improve public awareness of state,
<br />regional, and local agencies' roles and resoures. Action CN-1.13 provides an opportunity for
<br />community members to raise community health, pollution concerns, parks, service needs in
<br />their neighborhood. The timeframe of the survey has been revised to every two years. Two
<br />years will provide the needed time to formulate surveys, provide sufficient time to respond,
<br />collect data, analyze data, report findings, and formulate actions to address feedback. Through
<br />proposed actions, such as CN-1.10, results of surveys, analysis, and outcomes will be publicly
<br />accessible through the Environmental Quality webpage.
<br />Alana M.W. LeBron,
<br />et.al., UCI letter
<br />dated March 11, 2027
<br />110 Suggested Action Change: Action CN-1.13: Community survey on healthy
<br />lifestyles - Plan for and conduct a community survey of residents related to
<br />community health, air quality, parks, and community services; with focused
<br />outreach for environment justice concerns and priority areas (tie into other
<br />City efforts like Strategic Plan, park and recreation planning, community
<br />benefits, etc.). Collaborate with environmental justice organizations to design
<br />and interpret community survey findings and ensure that residents have
<br />several options for how to complete the survey (e.g., online, in-person,
<br />phone). Make surveys and summaries of survey findings available in multiple
<br />languages.
<br />Recommended Action Change: CM-1.2: Community Conservation. Plan for and conduct a
<br />community survey every two years related to community health, pollution concerns, parks,
<br />community engagement, and community service needs, with focused outreach to environmental
<br />justice priority areas utilizing various platforms, such as social media and school events, to
<br />encourage substantial survey participation.
<br />The intent of the draft Action is to obtain continually receive feedback from the community
<br />and is recommending conducting a targeted EJ survey that focuses on community health,
<br />pollution concerns, parks, service needs and City community engagement best practices. The
<br />timeframe has been revised to every two years. Two years will provide the needed time to
<br />formulate surveys, provide sufficient time to respond, collect data, analyze data, report
<br />findings, and formulate actions to address feedback. As previously mentioned, the
<br />Environmental Quality webpage proposed by action CN-1.10 will be the home of such survey
<br />results and summaries.
<br />Alana M.W. LeBron,
<br />et.al., UCI letter
<br />dated March 11, 2028
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