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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 />149 Santa Ana Suggests: Policy CN-1.1 Regional Planning Efforts “Coordinate air <br />quality planning efforts with local and regional agencies to meet State and <br />Federal ambient air quality standards in order to protect all residents from the <br />health effects of air pollution.” Santa Ana Is Missing: A policy to test, measure, <br />record, maintain, and reduce air pollution emissions. Santa Ana Could Adopt: <br />A policy more like that of the City of San Pablo’s Policy OSC-I-17 Prepare a <br />Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan to include a “baseline inventory of <br />all known or reasonably discoverable sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs) <br />that currently exist in the city and sources that existed in 1990... [a] projected <br />inventory of the GHGs that can reasonably be expected to be emitted in the <br />city in the year 2030 in accordance with discretionary land use decisions <br />pursuant to this General Plan update and foreseeable communitywide and <br />municipal operations... [a] target for the reduction of emissions...from those <br />identified sources reasonably attributed to the City's discretionary land use <br />decisions and municipal operations... [and a] list of feasible GHG reduction <br />measures...whose purpose shall be to meet the established local reduction <br />target, including energy conservation and "green building" requirements in <br />municipal buildings and private development” (text in red added by City staff <br />for context) <br />A number of policies and actions address this comment. The GHG reduction plan in San Pablo's General Plan draws on baseline and projected <br />inventories from the State and regional air quality boards and agencies. Taking a similar <br />approach, the Santa Ana GP Update actions seeks to collaborate with air pollution regulators <br />to gather local data and create strategies to address emissions at the local level. See actions <br />CN-1.1, CN-1.3, CN-1.6, CN-1.12, CN-1.19, and policies CN-1.3, S-1.2, CN-1.13, CN-1.15, and LU- <br />4.5. <br />MPNA Attachment IV, <br />2.18.22 <br />150 Santa Ana Suggests: Action OS-1.1 Park Needs Assessment and Master Plan <br />“Create, adopt, and implement a park needs assessment and master plan <br />defining park service areas according to best practices, establishing a service <br />area for each park facility, creating a tool to evaluate needs and prioritize <br />improvements by quadrant or appropriate geographic subarea, and <br />maintaining a list of priorities for the expansion and improvement of open <br />space and recreational facilities in each quadrant or geographic subarea to <br />attain a park land standard of 2 acres per 1,000 residents.” Santa Ana Is <br />Missing: A policy that identifies more specific implementation plans Santa Ana <br />Could Adopt: A policy more like that of the City of San Pablo’s Policy HEA-I-5 <br />“Link park facility improvement priorities to a ranking system keyed to public <br />health and recreational goals... a performance-based priority system <br />establishes a ranking scale that measures each component (e.g. pool, court, <br />bench, or trail) of its system against the scale related to public health. For <br />example, it might be a one-to-three scale in which one is below expectations, <br />two indicates that the component can meet its intended function for a given <br />period of time, and three means that it exceeds expectations...” <br />Recommended Action Change: OS-1.1: Park Needs Assessment And Master Plan. Create, adopt, <br />and implement a park needs assessment and master plan, based on community input, defining <br />park service areas according to best practices, establishing a service area for each park facility, <br />creating a tool to evaluate needs and prioritize improvements by quadrant or appropriate <br />geographic subarea, and maintaining a list of priorities for the expansion and improvement of open <br />space and recreational facilities in each quadrant or geographic subarea to attain a park land <br />standard of 3 acres per 1,000 residents. <br />Draft General Plan Action 1.1 identifies a needs assessment, master plan and mechanisms to <br />guide all future park development and establish a methodology to prioritize park <br />improvements, evaluation of needs and measures of how those needs are met. Both the San <br />Pablo example and the actions included in Santa Ana's Draft Plan achieve the same goal, <br />establishing a system by which to rank or prioritize park improvements and developments. <br />Moreover, the Action has been modified OS-1.1 to emphasize community input and increasing <br />the park standard to three (3) acres per 1,000 residents. <br />MPNA Attachment IV, <br />2.18.22 <br />Page 29