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i'40. o APPLICATION FOR PURCHASE OF REAL PROPERTY AT CENTENNIAL PARK AT PUBLIC BENEFIT ALLOWANCE Page 4 (¢ont'd) Number of certified teachers employed full time - Five instructors with the Santa Aha Fire Department are fully certified by the State Fire Marshall and the California Fire Service Training and Education System. There will be approximately ten outside guest or in-house certified Santa Ana Police Department instructors, who are certified by Police Officers Standards and Training. (6) Not applicable. Not applicable. Pending For at least the past four years, the City has searched for an appropriate site for a police/fire training facility. The City has considered several alternatives. The need for the facility has steadily increased while the available options have decreased. Continued urban development in Santa Aha has considerably reduced avail- able vacant land. The City is substantially built out and has had to carefully evaluate the highest and best use of each City- owned and operated land parcel. Among the various considerations which failed for various reasons were a proposed joint-use facility at the E1 Toro Marine base and three subsequent efforts to locate a training facility in the City. A joint City Yard training facility proposal failed due to neighborhood opposition. A proposed facility at Standard Steet and Garfield Street later became a federal foreign trade zone thereby changing the highest and best use from a training facility to an industrial. A proposed joint use facility with the City of Costa Mesa failed to be fully developed. After careful and thorough evaluation of each alterna- tive, the City determined that the site with the highest and best use for a training facility is the Centennial Park site. When the City acquired the land in 1969, the original plans for the proposed site included a holding yard, storage area, and a parking lot. The property, adjacent to the southwest corner, is and has been for the last 20 years heavy industrial. Currently the property is used by chemical companies, warehouses, manufacturers and other industrial companies. These uses are all compatible with the proposed training facility.