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Chapter 3 Findings Regarding Protect Alternatives housing units would be inconsistent with the City's policy to "encourage the construction of rental housing for Santa Ana's residents and workfarce, including a commitment to very low, low and moderate income residents and moderate income Santa Ana workers" (Policy HE-23) and 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, the City of Santa Ana currently has a shortage of rental units appropriately sized to accommodate families. As stated in the City's 2006-2014 Housing Element, while multiple-family housing comprises 41% of all housing stock within the City, only 13% of multiple family and single-family rental units have three or more bedrooms. It is estimated that 45% of all families who rent have five or more members. This translates into a shortage of 12,000 large family rental units. The Developer Project contains 78 two-bedroom units (two of which are manager units) and 67 three-bedroom units. In addition, the Mercy House project would provide one three-bedroom, five-one bedroom and five two-bedroom units (exclusive of manager's unit) of special needs housing. These units are appropriately sized to meet Santa Ana's identified demographic needs. Reducing the number of units that could be provided by the proposed Developer Project would not further the City's policies relating to the need fox rental housing suitable for families Moreover, under Health and Safety Code section 33334.2, in redevelopment project areas, not less than 20 percent of the gross tax increment generated from a project must be used by the redevelopment agency to increase and improve the community's supply of affordable housing. Therefore, the use of funds for community serving infrastructure on the Agency-owned properties must be related and proportional to development of affordable housing. There is no evidence that funds need to construct the community park suggested by the commenter would be proportional to the provision of affordable housing. Without such proportionality, it would be legally infeasible to use the Agency's set-aside funds to construct the park suggested by the commenter. Finally, the EIR analyzed numerous alternatives to the proposed project that would reduce impacts to historic resources. (See Recirculated EIR Chapter 5.0.) Specifically, Alternative 4 would eliminate the demolition of existing structures on Agency-owned properties and would eliminate any of the new potential acquisitions identified in Figure 5-2. Therefore, the suggestion to preserve in place 701 and 713 E. Fifth Street is within the range of alternatives already analyzed in Chapter 5.0, In addition, CEQA does not require alternatives to individual project components. The suggestions provided in the comment are not considerably different from what is already analyzed in the EIR and would not clearly lessen the significant environmental effects of the project. Findings on Mitigation Measures Proposed to Reduce /mpacts to Transportadon/Traffc ~ Proposed Mitigation Measure. Add language to the proposed project zoning code that includes measures for planned safety near rail crossings and suggested mitigation measures that include grade separations for major thoroughfares, improvements to existing at-grade highway-rail crossings, and continuous vandal resistant fencing or other appropriate barriers to limit access of trespassers onto the railroad right-of--way. (See Final EIR Chapter 3 (Responses to Comments), Letter from California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), comment PUC-2.) Finding. The Agency fords that specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations make this mitigation measure infeasible. Transit Zoning Code (SD 84) EIR Findings of Fact/Statement of Overriding Considerations 3-19