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Responses to <br />Environmental Checklist <br />For CEQA Compliance <br />The City of Santa Ana is a participant in the National Flood Insurance Program {NFIP). Communities <br />participating in the NFIP must adopt and enforce minimum floodplain management standards, including <br />identification of flood hazards and flood risks. Participation in the NFIP allows communities to purchase <br />low cost insurance protection against losses from flooding. The published Flood Insurance Rate Maps <br />(FIRM) for the project site is included on Community Panel No. 06059C0259H. The project site is located <br />entirely in Zone X, which is defined as areas beyond the limits of the 100-year flood and 500-year flood. <br />Implementation of the proposed project would not significantly increase the potential for flood risks. <br />IX. Land Use and Planning <br />A. Physically divide an established community? <br />C. Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan or natural community plan? <br />No Impact <br />The project site is currently developed with a commercial development oriented towards one arterial <br />street. The new development will continue the existing development pattern and will not divide existing <br />neighborhoods. The proposed project is located in an urbanized setting and no locally designated <br />species or natural communities are known to exist in the project area. The site is not part of any habitat <br />conservation plan or natural community preservation plan. <br />B. Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or regulation of an agency with <br />jurisdiction over the project adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an <br />environmental effect? <br />No impact <br />The General Plan land use designation and zoning for the site are residential but has been historically <br />used as commercial. The proposed project includes a general plan amendment and zone change to <br />allow the properties to be redesignated to be consistent with the existing development as well as allow <br />retail uses on a major arterial street. The proposed project will continue the existing development pattern <br />and will not create a conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy or regulations adopted for the <br />purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect. <br />X. Mineral Resources <br />A. Result in the loss of availability of a locally important mineral resource recovery site <br />delineated on a local general plan, specific plan or other land use plan? <br />No Impact <br />According to the City's Updated General Plan Land Use Element EIR, there are no areas in Santa Ana <br />that are designated significant Mineral Aggregate Resource Areas. Therefore, implementation of the <br />proposed project would not result in the loss of any regionally or locally important mineral resource. <br />XI. Noise <br />A. Exposure of persons to or generation of noise levels in excess of standards established in <br />local general plan or noise ordinance, or applicable standards of other agencies. <br />7~~3~0 10 <br />