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.- ,'" . RESOLUTION NO. 84-l1 PAGE FOUR (a) The redevelopment of the Fashion Square shopping center is an integral part of the central city's Redevelopment Plan as amended in 1975. As set forth in the 1975 amendment to the Redevelopment Plan and in Ordinance NS-1258 of the City of Santa Ana, adopting said amendment, the Fashion Square area is a blighted area necessitating redevelopment in conjunction with the ndowntown" area in order to accomplish the objectives of economic revitalization of the central city, and to prevent further economic deterioration. Included among the objectives of the said Redevelopment Plan are the promotion of complemen- tary development in the ndowntown" core and the "northernn core, to avoid contradictory and competitive land uses, and the preservation of the City of Santa Ana's retail vitality through increasing the Fashion Square shopping center. (b) The alternative of "no project" would allow the existing development on the Project Site to remain and continue to deteriorate. This would have an adverse effect on the goals and objectives of the City as expressed in the abovesaid Redevelopment Plan. . (c) The alternative of locating the Project on another site would likewise fail to promote the objectives of the above- said Redevelopment Plan. Furthermore, it is the location of the Project on the Fashion Square Site which makes the Project feasible to a developer such as Santa Ana Venture, because of the regional freeway access particular to that Site. (d) The alternative of smaller scale development on the same site is infeasible because the right to develop up to the maximum permitted development under the Agreement is an essential element in the developer's willingness to proceed with the Project. Furthermore, a significant reduction in the scale of the Project would not achieve the economic revitalization of the northern core of the Redevelopment Project Area in accordance with the objectives of the Redevelopment Plan. . 3. The Agency finds that the Project will have certain significant effects on the environment which cannot feasibly be mitigated into insignificance, to wit: increased traffic in the surrounding area, incremental increase in traffic-related noise, increased demand for housing, and increased demand for use of John Wayne Airport. The Agency further finds that these effects, while not insignificant, are not unduly detrimental to the general public living and working in a highly urbanized area and are the types of conditions to be expected in such 23 2A