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City Place Sky Lofts Fina! Environmental Impact Report Findings 3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS 3.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The 2.008-acre City Place Sky Lofts project site is situated in the northeastern part of the City of Santa Ana and is bordered by the City of Orange to the north. The project site is located at the northwestern corner of Jeanette Lane and Lawson Way. Local access to the project site would be provided from Lawson Way. Regional access to the project site would be provided by Interstate 5 (I-5) to the south and west and State Route 22 (SR 22) to the north. Main Street Concourse, LLC is proposing the City Place Sky Lofts project, which is a high-rise residential development consisting of a 27-story residential tower; four levels of two-story town homes; four above-grade parking and two below-grade parking levels; and amenity deck (Podium Level). A total of 353 for sale residential units will be provided. The 31 story residential tower, which includes a four level above ground parking structure, will include 333 units and 20 two-story town homes will be located adjacent to the parking garage. The objectives for the City Place Sky Lofts project are to: • Develop the City Place as a commercial and residential center that provides entertainment, shopping, dining and living opportunities for the residents of Santa Ana and surrounding area, and that maximizes the advantages of the site's location on Main Street in terms of its visibility and proximity to SR 22. • Develop the vacant project site with land uses to help meet the residential needs in the northeastern part of the City of Santa Ana. • Provide a Long term development that is of the highest architectural quality and design. • Provide a landscaping plan that is complementary to the project. • Provide an exciting and visually cohesive development as viewed both internally and externally. • Provide development that is consistent with the District Center designation of the General Plan and which implements the spirit and intent and policies of the General Plan. • Provide concentrated and internally integrated development rather than development that spreads activities into adjacent residential neighborhoods. • Provide a development that provides special design themes which are expressed in building appearance and configuration, street and pedestrian area design, landscaping, lighting and signage, and also provides for pedestrian linkages internally and to the surrounding neighborhood, traffic and service buffering and transitions in architectural scale and character. • Provide off-street parking sufficient to service the development, consistent with uses contained in the project. • Include the provision or replacement of public streets, sidewalks, sewers, stone drains, traffic signals, lighting systems, and other public facilities and improvements, as necessary. • Maintain the existing streetscape pattern including sidewalk design, mature trees and light fixtures. • Introduce a mixture of multi-family housing types to the district. • Maximize the residential density of the vacant site in City Place to support the purpose of the General Plan designation of District Center, which is intended for high intensity development. The City of Santa Ana is the Lead Agency for the EIR, as defined by Section 21067 of CEQA. The City of Santa Ana has determined that the EIR is required for the City Place Sky Lofts project pursuant to Section 15063 of the CEQA Guidelines to assess the potential impacts resulting from approval of the project and F: I PROD-ENVI City Place Sky L oftsl Final EIR I Findings-SOCI Findings-SOC. doc Page 2 January 23, 2009 75A-112