Item 17 - Appropriation Adjustments for Bristol Improvement Project Phase 4

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Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan March 2018 numbers are based on the census tracts adjacent to the project area. Housing in the planning area is predominantly single family with more than 87 percent of the units being detached single family homes. The remaining housing consists of duplex units. Altogether 105 housing units have been identified in the planning area. Of these, 92 are single-family units and 13 are duplex units. The housing located south of First Street tends to be more uniformly single family in character, while most of the duplex units are located north of Vt Street, with a large concentration located between 215Y Street and Santa Clara Avenue on the west side of Bristol Street. The majority of neighborhoods adjoining the planning area is well -maintained and exhibit signs of relative stability. Those residential areas exhibiting the greatest signs of neglect and deterioration are on the east side of Bristol Street between Cubbon Street and Richland Avenue and 3rd and 6th Streets. In the better maintained areas along the Corridor, the residential neighborhoods contain distinctive streetscape elements that contribute to the character of the area, including individualized wrought iron and masonry fences around front yards, entry gates, porches, trees, lawns, and mature, coordinated street -tree plantings. There are approximately 118 businesses in the planning area, most of which are small, community serving businesses, ranging from Laundromats, party rental stores, and local retail selling apparel, auto accessories and cell phones. The larger employers include large grocery and general merchandise Page 114 stores, which include Northgate Super Market, Smart and Final, and Food 4 Less, and Target — all who employ a range of approximately 50 to 100 employees. These establishments typically hire a majority of their workers locally. In addition, the number of local eating establishments, primarily restaurant chains which employ anywhere from 15 to 20 employees, and the assumption that other local business employ an average 4 people each, the employee base is approximately 762 employees in the planning area. Reflecting the local nature of much of the commercial and service uses in the area, a large percentage of these employees are of Hispanic descent. Precise figures on the composition of the work force are not available. However, statistics for the census tracts surrounding the planning area indicate that roughly 56 percent of the labor force is employed in blue collarjobs and the other43 percent in white collarjobs. The female population in the census tracts surrounding the planning area is largely employed in the white collar sector, at 57 percent, whereas males in the same census tract area are largely employed in the blue collar sector at 65 percent. Unemployment figures for the area are also unavailable, but based on the census tracts adjacent to the corridor, the unemployment figures are 6 percent unemployment for the male population and 9 percent unemployment for the female population. The aggregate unemployment for the tracts adjacent to the corridor is 7.5 percent based on 2005-2009 Census estimates. This is substantially lower than the Los Angeles -Long Beach -Santa Ana Metropolitan area unemployment rate, which, according to the U.S, Department of Labor Statistics was 11.7 percent in 2010. However, the unemployment rate figures for Santa Ana better reflect the planning area unemployment rate prior to the 2008 recession and not current levels of unemployment, which are not available for the planning area.