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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MacArthur Place South Findings and Facts in Support of Findings <br />Environmental Impact Report <br /> <br />approval of the City Place project. <br /> <br />The City approves and will implement all the mitigation measures in the Final ElR. <br /> <br />6.0 ALTERNATIVES <br /> <br />An EIR prepared pursuant to CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines must describe and comparatively <br />evaluate a range of alternatives to the proposed project (Section 15126.6 of the CEQA <br />Guidelines). Analysis of every possible alternative or options or combination of options would <br />overburden the EIR with an unnecessary amount of detail that would be redundant and complex <br />and would, as a result, fail to provide meaningful information for the City to consider in its <br />review of the project. To develop alternatives that are analyzed in the EIR, a list of potential <br />alternatives was prepared. For this analysis, the project alternatives were evaluated to determine <br />the extent to which they meet the basic project objectives, while avoiding or substantially <br />lessening any significant adverse impacts of the proposed project. Those alternatives, which met <br />the basic objectives and avoided or lessened adverse project impacts, were advanced for further <br />evaluation in the EIR. Those alternatives, which did not meet the basic objectives or which did <br />not lessen adverse project impacts, were not advanced in the EIR for further evaluation. <br /> <br />6.1 ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED BUT NOT ADVANCED IN EIR FOR FURTHER <br />EVALUATION <br /> <br />Potential alternatives to the MacArthur Place South project were considered by the City but were <br />not advanced for further evaluation in the EIR. The alternatives failed to carry out the goals and <br />objectives of the proposed project. The reasons the alternatives were not advanced are described <br />in the following Sections. <br /> <br />6.1.1 Alternative Location <br /> <br />Because the City of Santa Ana is nearly built out, very little opportunity exists for an alternative <br />site to be developed that meets the same or similar goals and objectives for housing, employment <br />and commercial uses. The proposed project site meets the City's General Plan, District Center, <br />and redevelopment goals and objectives. No other land in the South Main Redevelopment Plan <br />area or Enterprise Zone is available for the scope of the proposed project. <br /> <br />6.1.2 Three Office Towers in Lieu of Three Residential Towers <br /> <br />The County of Orange has been classified as a jobs rich area. The proposed project addresses the <br />need for additional housing, with the additional benefit of providing office and commercial retail <br />uses. This alternative would create more significant impacts not anticipate with the proposed <br />project, while not avoiding impacts identified with the project as proposed. <br /> <br />6.1.3 Commercial Retail Center at a Floor-Area Ratio of .5 <br /> <br />. This alternative would not meet the need for additional housing injobs rich Orange County. The <br /> <br />Exhibit B <br />Page31of38 <br /> <br />Page 31 <br />