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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 />156 Santa Ana Suggests: Policy LU-3.11 Air Pollution Buffers “Promote landscaping <br />and other buffers to separate existing sensitive uses from rail lines, heavy <br />industrial facilities, and other emissions sources. As feasible, apply more <br />substantial buffers within environmental justice area boundaries.” Santa Ana <br />Is Missing: A policy to designate appropriate distances or standards for buffer <br />zones Santa Ana Could Adopt: A policy more like that of the City of East Palo <br />Alto’s Policy 10.3 “Plant landscape buffers between Highway 101 and <br />residential areas...” which designates specific locations for buffer zones or <br />CARB’s suggestion that sensitive land uses be separated from industrial uses <br />by at least a distance of 1,000 feet. <br />Existing Action: LU-3.2: Design Guidelines and Standards. Update the zoning code's development <br />and operational standards for industrial zones to address incompatibility with adjacent uses, <br />including minimum distance requirements to buffer heavy industrial uses from sensitive receptors. <br />Conduct a study to evaluate and establish appropriate minimum distances and landscape buffers <br />between polluting industrial uses from sensitive receptors such as residences, schools, day care, <br />and public facilities. <br />Further analysis is required to determine what the appropriate buffer should be. If adopted, <br />Action LU-3.2 will establish a process by which to study relevant data and best practices, to <br />arrive at an appropriate distance, not simply choosing an arbitrary distance. <br />MPNA Attachment IV, <br />2.18.22 <br />157 South Bristol Street Land Use Focus Area: Redesignate the eastern block of <br />Bristol Street between MacArthur and Alton Ave to UN-40 instead of DC-2. <br />The designation is a better transition with the adjacent neighborhood to the <br />east. <br />Amend General Plan Land Use Map Map has been modified to reflect City Council.City Council <br />158 Recommended Action: LU-2.15: Community Serving Commercial Retail & <br />Service Diversity Impact Analysis. Implement a requirement for mixed-use <br />projects or proposals to convert commercial and other non-residential uses to <br />residential or mixed-use projects to complete a community serving <br />commercial retail & service diversity impact analysis to inform the decision <br />making process and to ensure availability and diversity of commercial retail <br />and service uses as part of the development proposal. <br />Recommended Action: LU-2.15: Community Serving Commercial Retail & Service Diversity Impact <br />Analysis. Implement a requirement for mixed-use projects or proposals to convert commercial and <br />other non-residential uses to residential or mixed-use projects to complete a community serving <br />commercial retail & service diversity impact analysis to inform the decision making process and to <br />ensure availability and diversity of commercial retail and service uses in Santa Ana as part of the <br />development proposal. <br />Staff is proposing the Action to maintain the avialability and a balanced mix of community <br />serving commercial retail and service uses within the City. <br />Staff <br />Page 32