80A - JOINT PH - TRANSIT ZONING CODE, FINAL EIR, SPECIFIC PLAN ETC. - ORIGINAL PACKET PROVIDED TO COUNCIL

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Transit Zoning Code /Proposed Development May 27, 2010 Page 4 properties includes the development of a maximum of 155 rental units and a maximum of 65 for - sale units for a total of 220 new residential units. Approximately 144 units (1'12 rental units and 32 for -sale units) would be constructed on the parcels currently owned by the Agency. The balance of the 220 units would be built on the parcels identified for potential acquisition, if and when they are acquired. As currently designed, the Developer Project will provide 110 rental units affordable to those meeting the Orange County criteria for Low, Very Low and Extremely Low Income, two manager units, six for -sale units affordable to those meeting the Orange County criteria for Moderate Income, and 26 market -rate for -sale units. The City /Agency is also pursuing the addition of new public open space that could include a public park, a public tot lot, and a community center building on the Garfield Elementary School Site. The objectives of the Developer project for the Agency properties are to: • Redevelop all of the Agency -owned properties. • Provide new affordable housing for families in furtherance of the City's affordable housing goals established in the Housing Element, the Implementation Plan for the Santa Ana Merged Redevelopment Project Area, and the City of Santa Ana Consolidated Plan. • Enhance the streetscape and urban form of the area, particularly along Santa Ana Boulevard, with the construction of new buildings that meet the standards contained in the Transit Zoning Code and that support future transit planning. • Eliminate blight. • Provide additional public open space and facilitate a joint use arrangement with SAUSD for a new community center. • Provide an economically viable redevelopment scenario for the Agency -owned properties. Environmental Impact Report The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that, where there is the potential for environmental impacts as the result of a proposed project, an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) be prepared in order to study and analyze any potential environmental impacts, disclose such potential impacts to the public, and mitigate such impacts to the greatest extent feasible. As such, an EIR was prepared for the Transit Zoning Code and development of the Agency parcels. The environmental issues analyzed in the EIR include aesthetics, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, land lase, noise, population and housing, public services, transportation and traffic, utilities and service systems and global climate change, as well as the cumulative impacts associated with each of these resource areas.