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The removal of 190 apartment units which are generally in poor repair with limited landscaping and the construction of the project, including fences/soundwalls and landscaping along the eastern and Sixth Street property boundaries should positively benefit the residential areas to the east of the project site. In addition, the abandonment of segments of Fruit and Sixth Streets should reduce through traflic in the residential areas~ thereby benefitting those residents and the City of Santa Ann through the separation of commercial and through traffic from traffic in residential areas. The project has been and will continue to be coordinated with the proposed Caltrans widening of I-5 to the north of the project site. The benefits of coordinating these two projects include closure of Fruit Street and integration of utility relocations and replacements. The replacement of the apartments with the expanded Register facility will generate additional property tax revenues and other revenues to the City of Santa Ana. The replacement crf the apartments with the expanded Register facility will reduce the demand for public services including police and fire services. Specific economic, social or other considerations make the alternatives to the proposed project, identified in the Final EIR infeasible. The No Project Alternative would not meet the project goals and would negatively impact the ability of the Register to provide its products in response to market demand, lhe Alternate Site Alternative would result in greater air quality impacts and would be more costly for the Register to implement and for long term operations. The Reduced Size Project Alternative would not meet the goals of the proposed project, would negatively impact the ability of the Register to provide its products in response to market demand, and would result in more limited benefits to the City including reduced employment, reduced property tax revenues, and less effective integration/ coordination with the widening of 1-5. 10. A substantial percentage of vehicle trips related to the Register activities would occur outside the peak travel periods, which combined with the existing on site commute management program and the proposed Transportation Demand Manage- ment Alternative, would have a positive effect on air quality. Il. The replacement of the apartment units with the production facility would result in the removal of a noise sensitive use (housing) from adjacent to I-5 and replacement with a land use that would not be adversely impacted by noise levels from either existing I-5 or the widened I-5. CONCLUSION For the identified significant impacts which cannot be mitigated to a level of insignificance, the City of Santa Ann finds that all of the mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR are feasible and have been required of the project by the Conditions of Approval. The City of Santa Aha finds that the project benefits outweigh the significant project impacts on land use/housing, air quality and short term noise.