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i i SECTION 5 — R-1 RESIDENTIAL PROTECTION & LAND-USE COMPATIBILITY VIOLATIONS The project, as approved, is incompatible with the established protections afforded to R-1 zoned properties under the Santa Ana Municipal Code and conflicts with adopted General Plan land-use policies intended to safeguard residential neighborhoods from intrusion by intensifled institutional uses. The Trust residence at 5401 W. Tampion Avenue is entitled to the protections, quiet enjoyment, and stability associated with R-1 single-family residential zoning. The project approval did not acknowledge or uphold these protections and resulted in a land-use outcome contrary to governing standards. 5.1 Conflict with R-1. Zoning Intent and Residential Character Protections R-1 zoning is expressly intended to preserve low-density, single-family residential living environments, providing families and residents with stability, quiet enjoyment, and a reasonable expectation of protection from incompatible or intensified adjacent uses. The introduction of expanded institutional operations — including increased student population, new grade levels (K-6 to K-8), expanded hours of use, intensified traffic, dual-use field/parking, and increased evening activity — represents a material intrusion into the residential character and quiet-use expectations guaranteed under R-1 zoning. The immediate adjacency of the expanded institutional use to the Trust residence undermines the core purpose of R-1 zoning and introduces impacts inconsistent with its intended character. These heightened impacts were not mitigated, conditioned, or acknowledged as incompatible with the residential designation. 5.2 Incompatibility with Santa Ana General Plan Residential Land-Use Policies The Santa Ana General Plan establishes residential protection principles designed to ensure that land-use decisions preserve the character, livability, and health of residential neighborhoods. The project approval did not apply or reference these policies when evaluating the appropriateness of expanding institutional activity at the residential interface. Key General Plan compatibility objectives — including minimizing land-use conflicts, preventing Intensification of non-residential uses adjacent to homes, and preserving residential quality of life — were not addressed in the staff analysis or hearing record. The absence of a compatibility evaluation resulted in an approval misaligned with adopted City policy regarding residential protection. 5.3 Intensified Institutional Use Without Required Residential Buffers or Protections - The project introduces increased noise, vehicle activity, lighting spillover, visual exposure, and after-hours use directly along the Trust residence boundary without meaningful buffering, screening, or use restrictions. Standard planning practice would require enhanced setbacks, landscape buffers,fencing, lighting controls, or sound-mitigating measures when intensifying a non-residential use adjacent to R-1 homes. No such protections were included or required. Instead, the expanded institutional use was approved as though such adjacency concerns did not exist, despite the Trust residence sharing a full boundary with the most active portion of the school site. 15 City Council 18 — 31 2/3/2026