Item 19 - ALUC Overrule – 3600 South Bristol Street

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Resolution No. 2023-XXX Page 1 of 4 RESOLUTION NO. 2023-XXX A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AUTHORIZING THE PLANNING DIVISION TO INITIATE THE PREPARATION AND DRAFTING OF FINDINGS IN SUPPORT OF OVERRULING THE ORANGE COUNTY AIRPORT LAND USE COMMISSION’S DETERMINATION OF INCONSISTENCY ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSED MIXED- USE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON A 41-ACRE SITE LOCATED AT 3600 SOUTH BRISTOL STREET AND TO PROVIDE NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 21676(B) OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE TO THE COUNTY OF ORANGE LAND USE COMMISSION AND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S DIVISION OF AERONAUTICS AT LEAST 45 DAYS PRIOR TO THE FUTURE PUBLIC HEARING DATE FOR THE PROPOSED PROJECT AND PROPOSED OVERRULING ACTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. On July 20, 2023, the County of Orange Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) held a public hearing on the above-referenced project and found a proposed mixed-use development proposed on a 41-acre site at 3600 South Bristol Street, known as the Related Bristol Specific Plan, to be inconsistent with the 2008 Airport Environs Land Use Plan (AELUP) for John Wayne Airport pursuant to AELUP Sections 1.2 and 2.1.4 and Public Utilities Code (PUC) Section 21674. B. Following the July 20, 2023 public hearing, the ALUC found the proposed project to be inconsistent with the 2008 John Wayne Airport Environs Land Use Plan on a 6-0 vote. ALUC’s findings were made pursuant to AELUP Sections 1.2 and 2.1.4, and Public Utilities Code Section 21674. These sections empower the ALUC “to assist local agencies in ensuring compatible land uses in the vicinity of existing airports to the extent that the land in the vicinity of those airports is not already devoted to incompatible uses,” and “to coordinate planning at the state, regional and local levels so as to provide for the orderly development of air transportation, while at the same time protecting the public health, safety and welfare.”