Item 37 - Appeal No. 2023-07 Denial of CUP No. 2023-18 Anchor Stone Christian Church: 2938 S. Daimler Street

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Anchor Stone Christian Church: 2938 S. Daimler Street November 21, 2023 Page 8 The 55 Freeway and Dyer Road Focus Area will transition from a portion of the city that is almost exclusively focused on professional office jobs to one that supports a range of commercial, and industrial/flex development. The intent is to create opportunities for a truly urban lifestyle with easy access to Downtown Santa Ana, multiple transit options, and the new investments and amenities in adjacent communities. The 55 Freeway and Dyer Road Focus Area contains three General Plan land use designations at four intensities. Among these is the Flex-3 designation, which provides for the following land uses: "Office/industrial flex spaces, [research and development facilities], clean manufacturing, corporate headquarters and campuses. Live -work units are not permitted." The subject Focus Area contains various portions north of the project site, near the interchange of the 55 Freeway and Dyer Road, that are designated GC. This GC land use designation would allow for findings to be made that the subject CUP application does not adversely affect the General Plan, while the subject site's Flex-3 designation would render the Planning Commission unable to make this required consistency finding. General Plan Goals and Policies The subject project will not be consistent with the goals and policies of the General Plan, including those from the Land Use Element (LU) and the Economic Prosperity Element (EP). An analysis of these inconsistencies is provided in Table 3 below. Table 3: Project Location and Information General Plan Goal or Policy Analysis LU-1.1, which encourages The introduction of a community assembly use and a Bible school compatibility between land uses to to the existing office complex will generate noise, traffic and enhance livability and promote healthy queuing, solid waste generation and circulation. Moreover, it will lifestyles. introduce assembly uses with youth services in close proximity to existing industrial uses in the area, counter to this General Plan policy. Additionally, the Flex-3 land use designation allows future developments with clean industrial and office uses in accordance with Table LU-A-2, which specifies interim industrial flex uses. Community assembly such as churches is not permitted. Irreconcilable land use conflicts between a sensitive receptor such as the proposed church and its school operations will be generated if the subject application were approved with future industrial uses taking place in the land use designation of the Focus Area. The purpose of the land use plan of the Land Use Element is to prevent these irreconcilable land use conflicts from occurring in the future between sensitive receptors and surrounding industrial uses. Lastly, the Flex-3 land use designation allows primarily office, industrial, clean manufacturing, research and development, and