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of directional lighting techniques and adherence with standard City requirements relative to parking lot lighting. The proposed project may also include ancillary exterior lighting for security and lighting of signage on-site. The surrounding area is developed and currently experiences light and glare from surrounding buildings, streetlights, parking lot lights, traffic signals, and motor vehicle lights. However, adherence to applicable local ordinances will minimize light and glare impacts to less than significant levels. Furthermore, to ensure the safety of workers and proper operation of equipment, nighttime lighting may be required if construction activities occur during dusk or nighttime hours consistent with City permitted construction work hours. Construction lighting fixtures shall be shielded away from adjacent residences and fully confined within the site boundary so that direct lighting does not shine on or produce glare upon any residential properties. Mitigation Measures AES-3 For the proposed commercial building, subterranean parking, and surface parking lot, all lighting shall comply with all City zoning, building, and NHSP design guidelines and will utilize directional and/or shielded lighting in order to minimize spillover effects to adjacent vicinities. The Applicant will provide the City, for their approval, a lighting plan with a photometric study that shows the point-by-point foot-candle layout to 20 feet outside the property line (NHSP 6.2.3). Additionally, all new projects shall provide an ornamental night lighting plan, prepared by an electrical engineer, and approved by the building, planning, and police departments (NHSP 6.2.3). Agricultural Resources In determining whether impacts to agricultural resources are significant environmental effects, lead agencies may refer to the California Agricultural Land Evaluation and Site Assessment Model prepared by the California Department of Conservation an optional model to use in assessing impacts on agricultural farmland. A. Convert Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland, or Farmland of Statewide Importance (Farmland), as shown on the maps prepared pursuant to the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program of the California Resources Agency, to non-agricultural use? No Impact. A portion of the proposed project site, less than 1-acre, is currently an agricultural field planted with row crops of strawberries and vegetable. Section 66474.4 of the Subdivision Map Act identifies certain categories of agricultural resources that are significant and require special consideration. According to the ' Santa Ana General Plan and the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Project (FMMP), the City does not contain any Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland, or Farmland of Statewide Importance parcels. The project site is classified as being 1 located in an urbanized area and therefore, the proposed project will not adversely 36 Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration July 2008 1 Harbor Medical and Retail Center 7 5A-6 9