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Chapter 3 Findings Regarding Protect A/ternatives (Refer to DEIR, Appendix D.) Table 4.4-1 lists all properties listed on the SARHP that could be impacted by the proposed Transit Zoiiiiig Code, and Figure 4.4-1 shows all of these properties on a map of the Transit Zoning Code area and the surrounding areas. The EIR then identifies Mitigation Measure MM4.4-3 to reduce impacts to historic resources throughout the Transit Zoning Code Area. This measure would require a qualified professional to conduct site specific historical resource investigations for future developments within the project area that would demolish or otherwise physically affect buildings or structures 50 years old or older ar affect their historic setting. ~ Proposed Mitigation Measure. Preserve historic properties in the Lacy Neighborhood. (See Final EIR Chapter 3 (Responses to Comments), Letter from Jeff Dickman QD), comment JD-28.) Finding. The Agency fords that specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations make this mitigation measure infeasible. Rationale. There are a very limited number of designated historic resources in the Lacy Neighborhood (see Draft EIR Figure 4.4-1 [Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties within the Transit Zoning Code Axea]), and the neighborhood itself has not been designated as historic. Mitigation measure MM4.4-3 would reduce impacts to historic resources throughout the Transit Zoning Code Area to the extent feasible. Preservation of all historic properties in the I acy Neighborhood is not feasible because it may inhibit the City's ability to meet its affordable housing goals. Construction of affordable housing units is critical to meeting the City's Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) for 2006-2014, and the City has an adopted policy to "maximize affordable housing on Agency-owned properties that is of high quality, sustainable, and available to various income levels." (See Santa Ana Housing Element [2006-2014], Policy HE-2.8.) Additionally, preservation of certain properties within the Lacy Neighborhood may inhibit the City's ability to "encourage the construction of rental housing for Santa Ana's residents and woxkfarce, including a commitment to very low, low and moderate income residents and moderate income Santa Ana workers" (Policy HE-23) and to fulfill its policy to "facilitate and encourage a diversity and range in types, prices, and sizes of housing, including single-family homes, apartments, town homes, mixed/multiuse housing, transit-oriented developments, and live/work housing" (Policy HE-2.4). (See Santa Ana Housing Element [2006-2014].) Further, preservation of all historic properties within the Lacy Neighborhood would be inconsistent with the objectives of the proposed Developer Project to "redevelop all of the Agency-owned properties" and "provide new affordable housing fox 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." ~ Proposed Mitigation Measure. In-place rehabilitation, residential and business re-use, and/ox relocation of historic properties to vacant land within the Lacy Neighborhood. (See Final EIR Chapter 3 (Responses to Comments), Letter from Jeff Dickman QD), comments JD-34, 38.) Finding. The Agency fords that specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations make this mitigation measure infeasible. Rationale. Funding fox development of the Agency-owned properties within the Lacy Neighborhood is contingent upon these funds being spent on residential uses. Therefore, use of these funds for non-residential adaptive re-use is prohibited. Accordingly, commercial re-use of historic properties on the Agency-owned parcels within the Lacy Neighborhood is legally infeasible. Transit Zoning Code (SD 84) EIR Findings of Fact/Statement of Overriding Considerations 3-17