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Section 2. Scope of Work (continued) Redevelopment Plan. The project team will work with the City of Santa Ana in identifying alternatives that will be analyzed in the EIR. These may . include the following: ■ No Project Alternative - Under CEQA, the EIR is required to evaluate the No Project Alternative. Under the No Project Alternative, the proposed Redevelopment Plan will not be adopted and the project area will remain in its present state. ■ Projects Alternative - This alternative will involve a change in proposed redevelopment projects. This alternative would lead to different degrees of impact on earth, air quality, traffic, aesthetics, noise, plant and animal life, land use, recreation, and other issues due to the different mix of projects that would be constructed under the proposed Redevelopment Plan. ■ Alternate Site Alternative - Recent court cases emphasize the need to analyze alternative sites for projects. An alternate site for the Redevelopment Plan will mean a smaller project area. The site may be an area or school district in the City where school facilities are especially overcrowded and will have the greatest benefit from redevelopment. This alternative focuses the impacts of the Plan to a smaller area and will only affect fewer land uses and residents, resulting in less environmental impacts overall. The impacts associated with the smaller project area will be analyzed in the EIR. The three alternatives will be compared with the proposed Redevelopment Plan and an environmentally superior alternative identified. The alternatives and potential alternate sites that will be analyzed in the EIR will be selected during the project organization meeting with City staff. Task G: Long -Term and Growth -Inducing -ImRpcts CEQA requires that EIR's evaluate both long-term impacts and growth -inducing impacts. Long-term impacts are changes to the environment which will be present during the life of the project and are irreversible. Growth -inducing impacts refer to impacts which may directly or indirectly result in increases in the population, employment or building intensity of the area. The EIR will include an analysis of the cumulative and long-term effects of the proposed Redevelopment Plan. The description and analysis will include the following: ■ The relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the maintenance and enhancement of long-term productivity City of Santa Ana Redevelopment Plan EIR 2-14