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Environmental Checklist <br />For CEQA Compliance <br />Project Sponsor's Name and Address: <br />City of Santa Ana Planning and Building Agency <br />General Plan Designation: <br />General Commercial (GC) <br />Description of Project: <br />The project consists of the renovation of the existing California Palms Motel so that the project site can be <br />designated atransient/residential hotel to comply with Ordinance No. NS-2471. Building exteriors and interiors, <br />parking, and landscaping would be changed to comply with design and development standards associated with <br />the ordinance. The 207-unit motel would be reduced to a 190-unit transientlresidential hotel. The northernmost <br />driveway would be removed and replaced by landscaping and barbeques. Existing straight concrete pathways <br />between buildings and onsite amenities. would be removed and replaced with meandering walkways and <br />vegetation. Ingress and egress points on the property would be improved so that they comply with the City of <br />Santa Ana Municipal Code. <br />Anew use district would be added to the SP2 as part of the proposed project. <br />Surrounding Land Uses: <br />The project site is surrounded by single-family residential uses to the east, commercial uses to the north and <br />west, and multiple-family residential and vacant commercial to the south. <br />Zoning: <br />The project site is designated GC in the SP2. The City of Santa Ana Municipal Code states that hotels, motels, <br />lodging houses, care homes, fraternity houses, and sorority houses are permitted in GC districts subject to the <br />issuance of a conditional use permit. The project site is not located within one of the five focus project areas <br />listed in the NHSP. <br />California Palms May 2007 <br />Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration 3-2 <br />75D-59 <br />J85 0296.0] <br />