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Environmental Checklist For CEQA Compliance II. Agricultural Resources A. No Impact. According to the Santa Ana General Plan and the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Project (FMMP), no Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland, or Farmland of Statewide Importance is located on the project site or in the vicinity of the proposed project. The FMMP designates the project site as Urban and Built Up Land (California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, FMMP 2006). Therefore, no important farmland would be converted as a result of the proposed project. No impact would occur. B. No Impact. The Williamson Contract applies to parcels consisting of at least 20 acres of Prime Farmland or at least 40 acres of land not designated as Prime Farmland. The California Department of Conservation indicates that there are no Williamson Act Contract or Preservation lands on or near the project site (California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, Williamson Act Program 2006). Therefore, no Williamson Contract lands would be removed as part of the proposed project. The proposed project site is zoned as Arterial Commercial (City of Santa Ana 2005). Therefore, the proposed project would not conflict with existing agricultural zoning. No impact would occur. C. No Impact. The proposed project would not disrupt or damage the operation or productivity of any areas designated as farmland. As discussed above, no farmland is located within the project site or within the surrounding areas that would be affected by any elements of the proposed project. The project would not induce growth that could result in the premature conversion of existing farmland in the area. No impacts would occur. III. Air Quality A. Less Than Significant Impact. The project site is located within the South Coast Air Basin (Basin). The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is required, pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act, to reduce emissions of criteria pollutants for which the Basin is in nonattainment (i.e., 03, PM,o, and PM2.5). As such, the project would be subject to the SCAQMD's Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP). The AQMP contains a comprehensive list of pollution control strategies directed at reducing emissions and achieving ambient air quality standards. These strategies are developed, in part, based on regional population, housing, and employment projections prepared by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). SCAG is the regional planning agency for Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial Counties, and it addresses regional issues relating to transportation, economy, community development, and environment.' A project is consistent with the AQMP if it is consistent with the population, housing, and employment assumptions that were used in its development. The most recent AQMP adopted by the SCAQMD incorporates SCAG's 2004 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) socioeconomic forecast projections of regional population and employment growth. SCAG locates the project site within the City of Santa Ana Subregion. The 2004 RTP projects that population in this subregion will grow by about 1,517 households between the years 2005 and 2015. The proposed project's addition of 38 net new housing units would represent three percent (3%) of the total housing units projected for the subregion (assuming one housing unit per household). Such levels of housing unit/household growth are consistent ~ SCAG serves as the federally designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Southern California region. Alton Court August 2007 Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration 3-16 J&S 00635.07 75A-82