Item 17 - Appropriation Adjustments for Bristol Improvement Project Phase 4

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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Preface The Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan Amendment provides the framework for future development of a 3.9-mile section of the Bristol Street Corridor in the central portion of the City of Santa Ana. The Plan, which has been developed in accordance with existing environmental conditions, City planning policies, and input from City staff and decision -makers, provides a comprehensive land use program and urban design guide for the area along with goals and policies to guide the future public and private actions relating to the area's development. In addition, the plan includes a strategy for its implementation and mechanisms to insure that development proposed by area landowners will be coordinated and occur in an orderly, planned manner, 1.2 The Specific Plan In 1991, the City of Santa Ana determined that a specific plan was the appropriate planning mechanism to guide long-range development of the Bristol Street Corridor. A specific plan is a planning and regulatory tool made available to local governments by the State of California. By law, specific plans are intended to implement a city or county's general plan through the development of policies, programs, and regulations which provide an intermediate level of detail between the general plan and individual development projects. As vehicles for the implementation of the goals and policies of a community's general plan, State law requires that specific plans can only be adopted or amended if they are consistent with the jurisdiction's adopted general plan. Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan March 2018 The authority to prepare and adopt specific plans and the requirements for its contents are set forth in the California Government Code (Planning and Zoning Law), Title VII, Chapter 3, Article 8, Sections 65450 through 65457. The law requires that a specific plan include text and diagrams specifying: • The distribution, location, and intensity of land uses, including open space, within the plan area; • The distribution, location, and capacity of infrastructure, including transportation, water, storm drainage, solid waste, and energy systems; • Design standards and criteria for development and use of natural resources; and • An implementation program, including capital improvement plans, regulation and financing strategies. This Specific Plan provides the framework for the future use and form for development along the Bristol Street Corridor through to ultimate build out of the area. The adopted plan provides a public planning document that will act as an extension of the General Plan, and be used as both a policy and a regulatory document, When private development proposals for the planning area are brought before the City, the Planning staff will use the Specific Plan as a guide for project review. Projects will be evaluated on their consistency with the intent of plan policies and conformance with development standards and design guidelines. For projects with the Bristol Street planning area, policies and standards in the Specific Plan will take precedence over more general Page I 1