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. . . Santa Ana City Council/ Community Redevelopment Agency May 15, 1984 Page Five Needless to say, the City of Orange is gravely concerned about the impact of the Proposed Development on the residents of Orange. No guarantee of blanket acceptance of the measures contained in the EIR can be made. Each and every item requiring the concurrence of Orange must and will be scrutinized to determine the impact of that item on Orange's residents and our responsibilities. A pre-requisite to any of the above traffic.measures is a study and plan for implementing a neighborhood protection program against adverse traffic impacts. Under these circumstances, the EIR must consider the environ- mental consequences -- and propose additional mitigation measures -- premised upon the inability or unwillingness of Orange to implement the eight measures listed above. Without such analysis of the feasibility of the proposed mitigation measures, the EIR fails to address the actual consequences of the Proposed Development. Similar concerns exist regarding measures, such as the con- struction of proposed freeway ramps and use of the parking structure, that require the concurrence of Cal Trans and/or the United States Government. There is no guarantee that such concurrence -- or the necessary funding for such projects -- will be forthcoming. The EIR must disclose this possibility and evaluate the consequences of the Proposed Development .if- such related projects are not constructed or approved. v. INADEQUATE CONSIDERATION OF PARKING ISSUES The project is estimated to generate over 57,000 daily automobile trips. (Final EIR page 89). Despite this enormous volume of traffic, the EIR "analyzes" the question of finding sufficient parking for those vehicles by stating (1) that the amount of parking will be determined by reference to Santa Ana's formula for calculating the minimum amount of required parking and (2) that such requirements (as they existed at the time the EIRwas prepared) would ensure that adequate parking would be supplied. This non-sequiter does not beqin to address whether the facility would contain sufficient parking. Initially, it should be noted that the amount of parking required by Santa Ana has decreased since the time the EIR was prepared. This change undermines the EIR's conclusion concerning the adequacy of parking, and requires that the portions of the EIR. concerning parking (as well as related portions, such as trafflc \~