Item 28 - Public Hearing - ZOA No. 20204-01 South Coast Technology Center

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CUP No. 2024-06 & CUP No. 2024-07 — Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (1303 North Bristol Street) July 8, 2024 Page 8 The project proposes landscaping improvements, which will feature a variety of plant materials including trees, perennials, succulents, shrubs, grasses, and groundcover, which would further help enhanced the viability of the commercial site, would create a harmonious environment, and would help promote a clean and safe environment for Santa Ana's residents, workers, and visitors. The project would also be consistent with the Economic Prosperity Element (EP), Goal EP-1 and Policy EP-1.2, which seeks to foster a dynamic local economy that provides and creates employment opportunities and expand the City's efforts in achieving its full employment potential. The proposed request would allow the owner and applicant to establish a business and construct a new building that would result in fostering a dynamic local economy, by creating new employment opportunities through activating an underutilized undeveloped property. This would in turn promote the fiscal stability and growth of the sales tax of the City as a whole. This would also be consistent with Policy EP-1.8, which promotes fiscal stability and growth of sales tax. Lastly, the project would be consistent with Goal EP-3 and Policies EP-3.7 and EP-3.8, which promotes a business friendly environment where businesses thrive, promotes a solution -based customer focus in order to facilitate additional development, and promotes a balance of community benefits. Consistent with these goals the redevelopment of site to develop with a new pad building that would serve an eating establishment would create a more business friendly environment along Bristol Street as it would deter any illicit activity and encourage business operations at neighboring properties and other remaining undeveloped properties in the corridor. Additionally, it would provide services to the community and additional dining options through the drive -through and after-hours services in a manner that is not anticipated to create on -site or off -site impacts to customers or the community, through careful site planning and operation practices. Public Notification and Community Outreach Project notifications were posted, published, and mailed in accordance with City and State regulations. Copies of the public notice, including a 1,000-foot notification radius map, and the site posting are provided in Exhibit 9. The site is located within the Washington Square Neighborhood Association, whose leadership was routinely notified of the project and of its major milestones during the development review process. The project is not subject to the City's Sunshine Ordinance. However, to ensure ample neighborhood outreach, staff encouraged the applicant to provide routine updates to the Washington Square Neighborhood Association. The applicant communicated with the neighborhood leaders to discuss the project. Following initial discussions, community leaders expressed concerns with the originally proposed hours of operation. To address community concerns and mitigate any potential impact to the surrounding residential properties, staff worked with the applicant to adjust the proposed hours of operation to