Item 28 - Public Hearing - Amendment Application for the Village Santa Ana Specific Plan

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5 LESS -THAN -SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS WITH MITIGATION INCORPORATED for the subsurface parking garage. The sensitivity for potential buried prehistoric archaeological sites at the Project site is considered low at the surface and near surface due to past disturbances; however, the sensitivity increases in these undisturbed soils. Therefore, implementation of GPU PEIR MM CUL-6 would require monitoring during all ground -disturbing construction activity and pre -construction activities within previously undisturbed soils by a qualified archaeologist and a Native American monitor, worker training, and procedures in case of a find. In addition, Project - Specific MM TCR- 1 through MM TCR-5 are proposed for implementation as requested by the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians-Kizh Nation and the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation-Belardes, to require procedures for Native American monitoring and to avoid potential impacts to tribal cultural resources that may be unearthed from project construction activities. Project -Specific MM TCR-6 is proposed for resource identification, dispute resolution, and final disposition in the event of an unanticipated discovery of a tribal cultural resource. Therefore, Project impacts to tribal cultural resources would be less than significant with mitigation incorporated. Threshold TCR-2: The Project would not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a tribal cultural resource, defined in Public Resources Code Section 21074 as either a site, feature, place, cultural landscape that is geographically defined in terms of the size and scope of the landscape, sacred place, or object with cultural value to a California Native American tribe, and that is a resource determined by the lead agency, in its discretion and supported by substantial evidence, to be significant pursuant to criteria set forth in subdivision (c) of Public Resources Code Section 5024.1. In applying the criteria set forth in subdivision (c) of Public Resource Code Section 5024.1, the lead agency shall consider the significance of the resource to a California Native American tribe, with the implementation of mitigation. Findings: The City finds that changes or alterations have been required in, or incorporated into, the Project, which avoid or substantially lessen the significant environmental effect as identified in the Final Supplemental EIR. Specifically, the City finds that GPU PEIR MM CUL-6 and Project - Specific MM TCR-1 through MM TCR-6 (listed previously) shall be implemented to reduce potentially significant tribal cultural resource impacts resulting from the Project. (Final Supplemental EIR, p. 3-9 — 3-11.) Additionally, the City finds that the Project will implement regulatory requirements RR TCR-1 through RR CUL-1 (listed above). (Draft Supplemental EIR, p. 4.14-4.) Explanation of the Rationale: The rationale and facts supporting the above finding are fully developed in Section 4.14, Tribal Cultural Resources, pages 4.14-13 through 4.14-14 of the Draft Supplemental EIR and in Chapter 3, Revisions to the Draft Supplemental EIR, of the Final Supplemental EIR. The following presents a summary of that rationale: As previously discussed, the Project's Sacred Lands File search yielded negative results and additional research identified no historical or archaeological resources within the Project site and a 0.5-mile radius. The City's consultation with the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians-Kizh Nation City of Santa Ana The Village Santa Ana Specific Plan Project August 2025 CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations 5-20