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City of Santa Ana <br />Environmental Checklist <br />Less -than- <br />Significant <br />Potentially Impact with Less -than- <br />Significant Mitigation Significant No <br />X. Land Use and Planning Impact Incorporated Impact Impact <br />Would the project: <br />a. Physically divide an established community? ❑ ❑ ❑ <br />b. Conflict with any applicable land use plan, ❑ ❑ ® ❑ <br />policy, or regulation of an agency with <br />jurisdiction over the project (including, but <br />not limited to, a general plan, specific plan, <br />local coastal program, or zoning ordinance) <br />adopted for the purpose of avoiding or <br />mitigating an environmental effect? <br />c. Conflict with any applicable habitat ❑ ❑ ❑ <br />conservation plan or natural community <br />conservation nlan? <br />Discussion <br />Would the project: <br />a. Physically divide an established carnrnunity? <br />No Impact. The proposed project involves development of a previously developed vacant area for a <br />residential charter high school. The 7.2 -acre project site is currently vacant and undeveloped, but it <br />is within a completely developed urban area bounded by roadways and developed areas (existing <br />medical and residential). The project would develop an infill project site that would become part of a <br />community, not physically divide a community. In addition, the proposed residential charter high <br />school development would be consistent with general plan land uses. Therefore, the project would <br />not physically divide an established community, and impacts would not occur. <br />b. Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or regulation of an agency with jurisdiction <br />over the project (including, but not limited to, ageneral plan, specific plan, local coastal <br />program, orzoning ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an <br />environmental effect? <br />Less - than - Significant Impact. The project site has a Professional /Administrative Office (PAO) land <br />use designation. The General Plan states that this land use designation is intended for a variety of <br />professional office and service activities that are focused in areas where offices are the predominant <br />land use or nodes within the city for office and office- related uses. <br />The zoning designation for the site is Professional (P), which provides for a variety of uses, including <br />trade and professional schools, hospitals, adult day care facilities, clubs, fraternities, and lodges. The <br />P zoning designation allows for the proposed school project with the approval of a CUP. Therefore, <br />the existing land use and zoning designation for the project site is consistent with the proposed <br />project, which would develop a residential charter high school with approval of a CUP. <br />However, the proposed project includes a proposed variance to allow for an increase in building <br />height above what is regularly allowed within the P zone. As described in Section 41 -314 of the <br />The Academy Charter High School 12 <br />20 <br />3 61 June <br />Initial Study /Mitigated Negative Declaration icF June 2011 <br />31 B -137 <br />