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

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10 STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS • The Project will redevelop the underutilized and currently vehicle -centric site by introducing a mixed -use development within a Pedestrian Opportunity Zone by developing sidewalks, pedestrian pathways, and a fitness loop to encourage pedestrian mobility to reduce overall VMT compared to the existing conditions. • The Project provides a positive contribution to the local economy through new capital investment, the creation of new jobs, development of more commercial opportunities, attraction of economic activity, and the expansion of the tax base. • The Project develops high quality residential spaces that reflect modern lifestyles, while responding to the vision of the GPU to help bring higher density housing into a jobs -rich area of the City planned for growth, to facilitate balancing the City's jobs -housing ratio. • The Project includes new residential and mixed -use buildings that would provide housing opportunities for residents in the City's South Bristol Street Focus Area which complements the successful South Coast Metro area with a diversity of new housing in a jobs -rich environment and implements the goals and policies of SCAG's Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy. • The Project enhances alternative transportation activity by creating a walkable and bikeable mixed -use development that links with existing facilities and transit services to encourage non -automotive travel within the Specific Plan area and the local community. • The Project contributes to the creation of a vibrant urban core for the City by providing vibrant and attractive community amenities, recreational and open space areas, and gathering spaces that are directly accessible to residents and the community, and takes advantage of the site's location within the South Coast Metro area. • The Project provides community benefits commensurate with the Specific Plan development proposal including public open space onsite and locations for public community events, as well as streetscape improvements along the Project site frontages of Sunflower Avenue and Bear Street. 10.4 CONCLUSION The City Council finds that each of the specific economic, legal, social, technological, environmental, and other considerations, and the benefits of the Project separately and independently outweigh the remaining significant, adverse impacts related to recreation and is an overriding consideration independently warranting approval of the Project. The remaining significant adverse impacts identified in Chapter 6 above, are acceptable in light of each of these overriding considerations, and the substantial evidence that supports the enumerated benefits of the Project can be found in the Findings of Fact herein, the Final Supplemental EIR, the Project itself, and the record of all proceedings in connection with the approval of the Project. In the event that any court decision or regulatory action results in a determination that there are additional remaining significant impacts resulting from the City's approval of the Project that cannot be avoided even with the incorporation of all feasible mitigation measures into the Project, the CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations herein shall be deemed to apply to such additional remaining significant impacts. City of Santa Ana The Village Santa Ana Specific Plan Project August 2025 CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations 10-3