2010-025 - Create the Urban Neighborhood Land Use Designation

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LAND USE ELEMENT • Water Reclamation. The Orange County Sanitation District's Green Acres Project allows for the reuse of reclaimed wastewater for industrial and landscape irrigation uses. Approximately 980 acre-feet of recycled water is currently used for irrigation. in Fountain valley, Santa Ana and Costa Mesa. As much as 7,500 acre-feet ofwastewater is planned for treatment and reuse, and will extend this service co the cities of Newport Beach and Huntington f3ea c h. • Solid Waste Collection. Great Western Keclamation is chc exclusive solid waste hauler in the. City of Santa Ana. The company has approximately 40,600 residential. customers and 5,500 commercial, industrial and other customers, as of June 1997. Solid waste is brought by truck to the Sunset Environmental Scrvicc 'T'ransfer Station in Irvine and the CV"I' 'Iiansfer Station in Anaheim. Residual wastes are trucked to the Frank Bowman Brea Olinda/Alpha-Olinda Landfills. • Waste Reduction. In 1995, chc Cicy generated approximately 293,1 l7 tons of solid wastes. Some 55,941 tons ofthcse wastes were recycled for a diversion rate of approximately 19%x. "Phis diversion was mainly clue to the use of a materials recovery Ftcility for all wastes. A curbside recycling program was started in 1996 and is expected to increase waste diversion- 'I~he City of Santa Ana has adopted a Source Reduction and Recycling Element (SRKE) in 1992 which outlines the City's commitment to a 25 percent solid waste reduction by 1995 and a 50 percent reduction by 2000. The plan calls for recycling, composting, special waste disposal, and education and public information prugra m s. CULTURAL RESOURCES Culturcl Resources include both archaeological resources for which the City has a great potential, since the Santa Ana Kiver flows directly thmugh it. Most prehistoric settlements were located near sources ofwacer. The original town of Santa Ana was founded in 1869 by William Spurgeon as an agricultural area of citrus and walnut groves, with the town center consisting ofa shopping area and post office. 3:3y 1889, Santa Ana was the County Scat with development occurring at a rapid pace. 13y chc turn o£the century, the City was chc governmental and financial center of Orange County. • Archaeological Resources. An archaeological record search at the UCLA Institute ofArchacology indicated there is one recorded prehistoric site in the City. 'I'hc site, near Santiago Creek in chc ^orthwesc section of chc City, contained grinding stones, and was disturbed by chc dewelopment of a residential subdivision in 1965. An additional six prehistoric sites are located within one mile of Cicy boundaries. Resolution No. 2010-025 + ~' E ~ \`L Page 100 of 107 fY-~, ~f ~ ' , ~ . CITY OF SANTA ANA GENERAL PLAN A-57