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City Place Focused Environmental Impact Report Findings and Facts in Support of Findings project site were considered, but the level of impact would remain comparable. As a result, an alternative site for the City Place project was not evaluated in the EIR. 6.2 NO PROJECT ALTERNATIVES 6.2.1 No ProjectlExisting Conditions Alternative This No Project Alternative assumes that the existing uses on the 17.7 acre project site are retained and that no development occurs on the site. With this Alternative, the site would remain vacant and no residential or commercial uses would be developed on this site. Table 9-1 from the EIR, on the following page, indicates that the No ProjectlExisting Conditions Alternative would not meet any of the City or applicant objectives for the City Place project. 6.2.2 No ProjectlExisting Entitlement Alternative This No Project Alternative assumes that the approximately 17.7 acre project site would be developed consistent with the existing approved entitlements for the project site which would allow for the development of the previously approved Main Street Concourse Project consisting of up to 1.96 million square feet of office, retail and hotel uses, and 280 residential units. The existing entitlements for the project site reflect approved development as assessed in City of Santa Ana EIR 90-2 which was certified by the Santa Ana City Council in April 1992. This No Project Alternative would result in approximately 1.91 million more square feet of commercial uses (office, retail and hotel) and 38 more residential units on the project site than under the City Place project. This No Project Alternative would result in substantially greater land use densities on the project site than the proposed project. The No ProjectlExisting Entitlement Alternative would meet all of the objectives for the City Place project. 6.3 DESIGN ALTERNATIVE The Design Alternative reduces the development on the project site by 123,434 square feet and would result in a reduction of overall density and FARon the project site. The Design Alternative would only marginally reduce impacts compared to the proposed project for hydrology and water quality, noise, public services and utilities and service systems. The Design Alternative would have no change on impacts compared to the proposed project on aesthetics, air quality, cultural resources and hazardous materials. The Design Alternative would result in reduced traffic impacts in the short and long term, but not enough to reduce the impact to below a level of significance. The Design Alternative would meet all of the objectives for the City Place project. 6.4 COMPARISON OF IMPACTS Table 9-1 in the EIR, provided on the following page, compares the unavoidable adverse impacts of the City Place project and the No ProjectlExisting Conditions, No ProjectlExisting Entitlement and Design Alternatives. TABLE 9-1 COMPARISON OF THE IMPACTS OF THE CITY PLACE PROJECT AND THE PROJECT ALTERNATIVES (1) U: IDBottlwp51 I City Place jindings.doc September 29, 2004 Page 28 758-134