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RESOLUTION NO. 79-137 crime rate in the residential neighborhood, is without apparent foundation in evidence or logic. The incremental increase in traffic and off street parking due to the project cannot be viewed in isolation. There exists a city-wide problem of vehicular travel between the central city and regional traffic routes. The neighboring residential area is particularly vulnerable to such problems as the central city is redeveloped, because of its proximity to it. Traffic flow and parking restrictions in the neighborhood remain options open to City consideration at such time as need and feasibility can be more specifically assessed. Aside from these options, however, traffic and parking impacts are judged not to be unduly disproportionate to those which could reasonably be expected in the ne~.ghbochood in the next few years even if the proposed project had been disappuoved. The City Council therefore judges that the benefits accruing to the community from the project far more than outweigh the environmentally adverse effects. The project will upgrade the Civic Center area and enhance its image, attracting new development, and thereby promoting the established goal of eliminating blight in the Redevelopment Project Area. The project will accommodate a demand for office space for professional and administrative uses accessory to the Civic Center, particularly attorney offices with ease of access to the Orange County Courthouse· By providing office space within easy walking access to the ~ivic Center, the project will decrease vehicular traffic to and from the Civic Center and parking congestion at the Civ~c Center. The pro~ct will provide substantial tax increment benefits to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Ana, thus promoting the Agency's ability to achieve its objectives elsewhere throughout the Redevelopment Project Are. EXt:H IT A