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Resolution No. 2025-10 Page 5 of 11 building would be 24 feet in height and 1,025 square feet in size to ensure the building size is compatible with the adjacent residential properties and would not cast a shadow or create a looming effect on adjacent residential properties. The Project proposes landscaping improvements, which will feature a variety of plant materials including trees, perennials, succulents, shrubs, grasses, and groundcover, which would further help enhanced the viability of the commercial site, would create a harmonious environment, and would help promote a clean and safe environment for Santa Ana’s residents, workers, and visitors. The Project would also be consistent with the Economic Prosperity Element (EP), Goal EP-1 and Policy EP-1.2, which seeks to foster a dynamic local economy that provides and creates employment opportunities and expand the City’s efforts in achieving its full employment potential. The proposed request would allow the Property Owner and Applicant to establish a business and construct a new building that would result in fostering a dynamic local economy, by creating new employment opportunities through activating an underutilized undeveloped property. This would in turn promote the fiscal stability and growth of the sales tax of the City as a whole. This would also be consistent with Policy EP-1.8, which promotes fiscal stability and growth of sales tax. Lastly, the Project would be consistent with Goal EP-3 and Policies EP-3.7 and EP- 3.8, which promotes a business-friendly environment where businesses thrive, promotes a solution-based customer focus in order to facilitate additional development, and promotes a balance of community benefits. Consistent with these goals, the redevelopment of the with a new pad building that would serve an eating establishment would create a more business- friendly environment along Tustin Avenue as it would deter any illicit activity and encourage business operations at neighboring properties and other remaining undeveloped properties in the corridor. Additionally, it would provide services to the community and additional food service options through the drive-through in a manner that is not anticipated to create on-site or off-site impacts to customers or the community, through careful site planning and operation practices. Section 2. Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the CEQA Guidelines, the project is exempt from further review pursuant to Section 15303 of the CEQA Guidelines (Class 3 – New Construction). Class 3 exemptions consist of construction and location of limited numbers of new, small facilities or structures, which includes commercial buildings such as a restaurant use not exceeding 2,500 square feet in floor area. In urbanized areas, the exemption also applies to up to four commercial buildings not exceeding 10,000 square feet on sites zoned for such use if not involving the use of significant amounts of hazardous substances where all necessary public services and facilities are available and the surrounding area is not environmentally sensitive. The Project proposes to establish an eating establishment within a new 1,025-square-foot commercial building with double drive-through