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9 <br /> <br />General fund and other funding sources to help provide new facilities or enhance <br />existing facilities for additional cultural, recreational and educational services. <br />• In 2020, City Public Works Agency staff continued to coordinate with school <br />districts on the following actions: traffic safety educational program conducted at <br />the schools; completed Citywide Safe Routes to School Plan; <br />Submitted Active Transportation Program grants; and worked with specific schools <br />to address circulation concerns. <br />• The City continues to partner with local school districts for shared use of school <br />facilities and park sites to address community parks, open space and recreational <br />need. <br /> <br />6. Energy Element <br />This element was designed to reduce energy consumed in Santa Ana’s transportation <br />system, land use and development, increase energy efficiency, and work <br />collaboratively to increase public awareness of energy conservation needs and <br />practices. <br /> <br />• The City of Santa Ana constructed the equivalent of three miles of bikeways in <br />2020, encouraging “green” travel and energy conservation. Presently, the Draft <br />General Plan Update Mobility Element is proposing updates to the citywide <br />Bikeway Master Plan to support additional on-road and off-road bike facilities. The <br />City also continuous to pursue grant funding and the implementation of bikeways <br />to promote active, alternative modes of transportation for the community. <br />• The City’s Community Development Agency presently assists in management of <br />the Downtown parking resources to serve business, residents and visitor needs. <br />These parking resources offer hundreds of public parking spaces within structures, <br />metered spaces, and surface parking lots. The Downtown’s parking resources will <br />are also tools to support transit through the OC Streetcar. The OC Streetcar is the <br />first modern streetcar project to be built in Orange County and will serve Santa <br />Ana’s historic and thriving downtown, which includes federal, state, and local <br />courthouses, government offices, colleges, an artists’ village and a thriving <br />restaurant scene. Expected to begin carrying passengers in 2022, it will operate <br />along a 4.15-mile route that connects the Santa Ana Regional Transportation <br />Center (SARTC) and a new transit hub at Harbor Boulevard and Westminster <br />Avenue in Garden Grove. <br />• The City’s Public Works Agency continues to monitor Orange County <br />Transportation Authority’s (OCTA) Transit Master Plan and Long Range <br />Transportation Plan to promote maximum transit options for Santa Ana <br />stakeholders, and that supports Santa Ana’s vision for Transit Oriented <br />Development (TOD). <br />• In 2020, the City continued to pursue grant funding opportunities to implement <br />traffic signal synchronizations projects. These projects help to conserve fuel and <br />improve efficiency of the traveling motorists along various corridors by reducing <br />delays and maximizing throughput traffic.